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Peter van Blyenburgh, a Dutch national residing in Paris, France, was born in The Netherlands (’48), educated in Canada, the Netherlands Antilles and The Netherlands, studied in Switzerland (Business Administration) and has held various management positions with a number of industrial and service supplying corporations in the USA, Europe and the Middle East.

He has been involved with unmanned systems since 1987 and has supplied advisory services in this field to corporate and/or governmental entities in Europe, the Middle & Far East and North America.

In 1995 he instigated & in 1997 founded, the European Unmanned Vehicle Systems Association (EURO UVS), which changed its name to UVS International in January 2004; he is currently in his 8th twoyear term as president of this internationally operating non-profit association registered in Den Haag, The Netherlands, which deploys its activities out of offices in Paris, France.

He is the founder and Chief Executive of Blyenburgh & Co (B&C), a company registered in Paris, France, to which the UVS International Board of Directors has contractually entrusted the association’s administration, as well as the organisation of its unmanned vehicle system-related conferences, symposia and workshops; he chairs all UVS International conferences and he is a regular speaker at international unmanned aircraft system-related conferences.