Chip Stem

Dr. Chip Stem has spent much of his career solving challenges in the livestock and meat sectors of the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula and the Middle East. He is currently the CEO of Livestock Trade Services Ltd and Solar Floppy Irrigation Ltd and based in Kenya. As a veterinarian with a degree in economics Chip takes a business approach to problem-solving. He has focused much of his career on changing the status quo for farmers and pastoralists in the Horn of Africa, first though successful rinderpest eradication and more recently by designing and building the first modern livestock export quarantine in Africa which opened up legal livestock export trade from Africa to the Arabian Peninsula and the Middle East for the first time in 25 years. Dr. Stem has worked extensively in livestock and human health and nutrition, cross border disease control, livestock, and meat export and import trade, and in pastoral systems of Africa and Asia. Additionally, he has extensive wildlife research and conservation experience in Africa largely through his students while he directed the International Veterinary Medicine Program at Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine. He served as the Director of the Livelihoods Program at the Tufts University Feinstein International Famine Center and has served on the academic faculties of Tufts University Schools of Veterinary Medicine and Nutrition and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He served the African Union’s InterAfrican Bureau for Animal Resources while leading rinderpest vaccine development and eradication projects and creating the modern livestock export quarantine concept.