Robert Huey is Deputy Chief Veterinary Officer in Northern Ireland and a specialist in veterinary public health with a background on farm animal clinical practice. Over the years he has gained experience especially on veterinary public health, meat hygiene and food safety, veterinary governance as well as on mixed practice and academic issues.

He graduated from the Royal Veterinary College in Dublin and holds a Diploma in Veterinary Public Health (Meat Hygiene, DVPH - MH). He is involved in FVE issues since fifteen years as a UK representative at UEVH and FVE level; from 2003-2007 he has been the UEVH President and a member of several FVE working groups, chairing the FVE Welfare at Slaughter Working Group (2006/2009) and the FVE Food Hygiene Working Group (2003/2009 and 2011).

He has been Former President for the North of Ireland Veterinary Association (NIVA) and for the Veterinary Public Health Association (VPHA); from 2001 to 2004 Council Member for the British Veterinary Association (BVA) and to date Member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (MRCVS) of UK.

Currently he is taking part at the FVE/EAEVE programme of evaluations, moreover he is FVE's representative at European conferences on the modernization of meat inspection and a he is frequent speaker at the European Commission "TAIEX" workshops and events.