Background
Trees was born on 12 June 1946, in Middlesbrough and spent his childhood in Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire.
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Alexander Alexander Trees, Baron Trees
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Education
He was educated at Brumby Junior School and then at Brigg Grammar School between 1957 and 1964. In 1969, he graduated from Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh with a Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery (Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine&South) and therefore qualified as a veterinary
This accumulated into completing a Doctor of Philosophy (Doctor of Philosophy) on bovine babesiosis.
Career
Upon graduation, Trees undertook a research expedition to Kenya in 1969 to 1970. He then spent a year as a practising veterinarian in Derby, England. He joined the veterinary pharmaceuticals company Elanco in Rome, Italy.
He was veterinary advisor for the Middle East from 1977 to 1979, veterinary advisor for the Middle East, Turkey and Africa from 1979 to 1980, and finally Head of Animal Science in the Middle East and Africa in 1980.
In 1980, he joined the University of Liverpool as a lecturer of veterinary parasitology. He was Head of the Department of Veterinary Parasitology from 1992 to 2001.
In 1994, he was made Professor of veterinary parasitology and appointed Head of the Parasite and Vector Biology Division at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. He was Dean of the Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Liverpool from 2001 to 2008.
In 2011, he retired from the University.
He was Vice-President of the European Veterinary Parasitology College from 2006 to 2009. He was President of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons from 2009 to 2010. He has been Chairman of the Moredun Research Institute since December 2011.
In March 2016 Trees was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Review of Social Economy"s highest class of Fellowship.
On 3 July 2012, Trees was made a life peer as Baron Trees, of The Ross in Perth and Kinross, and was introduced in the on 12 July 2012, where he sits as a Crossbench, or independent, peer. Baron Trees made his maiden speech in the in January 2013 on the Leveson debate.
Membership
From 2011, he is a member of the Executive Committee of the World Association for the Advancement of Veterinary Parasitology. He is only the second veterinary surgeon to become a member of the after Lord Soulsby.
