Jesús del Saz Q.

Institutional Advocacy Specialist

Spain

About

My greatest aspiration is to contribute to meaningful and lasting change. I firmly believe that a different model of animal production is not only possible, but essential. One that genuinely integrates animal welfare, environmental sustainability, and human health and well-being. The animal production industry must evolve on solid scientific, ethical, and social foundations. Advancing towards more responsible systems is not an ideological choice, but a structural necessity to address the challenges our societies face today and in the future. There is no place for avoidable suffering: human or non-human. True progress can only be built on respect, evidence, and shared responsibility.

Experience

  • Observatorio de Bienestar Animal (3 yrs 2 mos)
    • Semi-Senior Institutional Advocacy Specialist
      Mar 2026 - Present · 5 mos

    • Institutional Fish Welfare Specialist
      Jun 2023 - Feb 2026 · 2 yrs 9 mos

  • Animal Welfare and Agro Product Auditor at Premiumlab S.L.
    Jun 2022 - May 2023 · 1 yr

    - Animal welfare audits: veterinarian responsible for certifying compliance with European animal welfare standards under the Welfare Quality (Welfair) standards for cattle and poultry. - Traceability audits under Welfare Quality (Welfair) standards. - Optional labeling audits in farms, slaughterhouses, cutting plants, feed mills, and egg factories. - Private specifications audits: IGPs, DOPS.

  • Eville & Jones ()
    • Official Veterinarian
      Apr 2019 - Sep 2020 · 1 yr 6 mos

      - Veterinary export certification: lead official veterinarian of "ABP Food Group - ABP Sturminster" responsible for veterinary export certification of products. - Food safety assurance: responsible for ensuring that processing plants and slaughterhouses comply with hygiene and food safety standards in food production, and verification of the HACCP plan. Participation in audits. - Leadership: responsible for coordinating, supervising, and training a team of hygiene inspectors. - Disease prevention: inspection of food animals and sampling for disease and residue surveillance. - Animal welfare: protection of animal welfare in slaughterhouses by supervising the handling of cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, and poultry.

    • Meat Hygiene Inspector
      Aug 2018 - Mar 2019 · 8 mos

      - Responsible for post-mortem inspection of products of animal origin, sealing products intended for human consumption, and seizing products that pose a risk to public health. - Disease control and sampling for the detection of transmissible encephalopathies. Sampling for the detection of residues of prohibited substances.

  • Practical Training Trainee in the Research Service at Complutense University of Madrid
    Sep 2017 - Jul 2018 · 11 mos

    Collaboration in the Recruitment Section.

  • Student Intern in the Small Animal Obstetrics and Reproduction Department at Complutense University of Madrid
    Oct 2014 - Sep 2016 · 2 yrs

    - Preparation of samples for vaginal cytology and collaboration in their diagnosis, as well as collaboration in the treatment and treatment guidelines for clinical cases in the HCVC small animal clinic, seminal extractions, conservation, and use in artificial insemination. - Collaboration in research work on the selection of spermatozoa with the highest fertilizing capacity in the canine species prior to their conservation.