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Asolo-Adeyeye Adewole. A

B.A (Hons) M.B.A (Ibadan) M.A. (Ibadan) PhD in View

Senior Lecturer, School of Management, Federal Polytechnic Ilaro, Ogun State Nigeria where he teaches philosophy and management courses. He has attended many local and international conferences. He is a member of the Nigerian Institute of Management (NIM), British Society for Ethical Theory (BSET) Development Studies Association (DSA),U.K. Society for International Development (SID), Regulatory Institutions Network of Australia (Regnet). His publications include "Element of Social Philosophy," "Principles of Development Administration: A Developing Country's Perspective." He is the Executive Secretary, West African Network on Business Ethics (WANETHIC). He is also the Executive Director, Centre for Organizational and professional Ethics (COPE - NIGERIA ).

Tania Bubela

Tania Bubela is Assistant Professor in the Department of Business, Marketing and Law, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. Her areas of interest include intellectual property, biotechnology, technology transfer, innovation and knowledge management, health law, science marketing and media representation. Her research focuses on intellectual property issues in biotechnology, and she is involved in collecting data and designing databases to enable the empirical validation and testing of models of IP protection for biotechnology innovation.  In particular, she is conducting research on the interactions between variables that require qualitative data in the form of survey data and domain visualization to measure information flow to support innovation and knowledge management, as part of the Intellectual Property Modeling Group, a transdisciplinary group of researchers in the fields of law, economics, ethics, philosophy, management and science at the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy at McGill University.  Empirically validated alternative legal regimes will provide policy makers and academics with the resources to answer complex questions about the effects of intellectual property on access the health biotechnology, the economic implications of intellectual property, and intellectual property's role in health biotechnology innovation. Dr Bubela also undertakes research on traditional ecological knowledge in the context of constitutionally protected Aboriginal rights in Northern Canada; media representations of genetic research; the use of media representations in Parliamentary debates on stem cell research in Canada and the United Kingdom; and the reform of civil procedure rules on the use of expert evidence in the courtroom.  

David Castle

David Castle's research and teaching interests lie in the philosophy of the life sciences, and the ethical implications posed by biotechnology. He is an investigator in the Ontario Research Development Challenge Fund supported Program on Applied Ethics and Biotechnology, and he is a principal investigator on two large-scale Genome Canada Genomics, Ethics, Law and Society (GE3LS) research programs: Canadian Program on Genomics and Global Health and Bridging the Genomics Divide. He collaborates with colleagues at McGill University on the Canadian Institutes of Health Research funded Reconciling Growth with Ethics: Models of Intellectual Property Protection for Biotechnological Innovation and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada supported Legal Models of Biotechnology Intellectual Property Protection: A Transdisciplinary Approach.

Tim Caulfield

Timothy Caulfield has been Research Director of the Health Law Institute at the University of Alberta , since 1993. In 2001 he received a Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy. He is also a Professor in the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry. His research has focused on two general areas: genetics, ethics and the law; and the legal implications of health care reform in Canada . Over the past several years, he has been involved in a variety of interdisciplinary research endeavours that have allowed him to publish numerous health law articles and book chapters. He is the recipient of an Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research Health Research Scholarship entitled "Regulating the 'Genetic Revolution;'" a Genome Canada project on the regulation of genomic technologies, a Canadian Institutes of Health Research project on legal foundations for a national disease control surveillance agency in Canada and is an associate theme leader in the Stem Cell Network and the Advanced Foods and Materials Network (National Centres of Excellence).

Jeremy de Beer

Professor de Beer is a law professor at the University of Ottawa , specializing in intellectual and classic property law. He has previously taught Property, Torts and Legal Research and Writing. Prior to joining the Faculty's Law and Technology Group, Professor de Beer was awarded a BCL (first class) from the University of Oxford . As well as holding an LLB (Silver Medallist) and a BComm (Great Distinction) from the University of Saskatchewan , Professor de Beer has studied law at Capital University in Columbus , Ohio , and won numerous academic awards at each University. Professor de Beer is a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada, and was employed previously by the Department of Justice as legal counsel to the Copyright Board of Canada. His current research centres on intellectual property, the impact of agricultural biotechnology patents on classic property rights, global food security and other humanitarian implications of technology and intellectual property laws.

Kathryn Garforth

Kathryn holds a Masters of Environmental Studies and a Bachelor of Laws (Osgoode), as well as a Bachelor of Arts (McGill). She is currently a Research Fellow, Sustainable Biodiversity Law, at the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (Montreal, Quebec) and is also an independent consultant with Garforth & Associates (Montreal). She has published widely on the interactions between intellectual property, health, and biodiversity, and was a co-author of the CISDL Report for Environment Canada, Overview of the National and Regional Implementation of Measures on Access to Genetic Resources and Benefit-Sharing .

Richard Gold

Dr. Richard Gold is the Director of the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy and teaches in the area of intellectual property and technology at McGill University 's Faculty of Law as the Bell Chair in e-Governance. His research centres on the nexus between technology, commerce, and ethics, particularly with respect to biotechnology in the international context. He is the Principal Investigator of the Intellectual Property Modelling Group, a transdisciplinary research team investigating intellectual property regimes. Dr. Gold holds an S.J.D. and LL.M. from the University of Michigan , a LL.B. (Honours) from the University of Toronto and a B.Sc. from McGill University .

Ashish Gosain

Ashish Gosain has been an Advocate, Supreme Court of India and Registered Patent/ Intellectual Property Attorney for the last three years. Ashish is deeply interested and involved with Patents and Biotechnology Industry related issues, besides dealing with post-registration transactions in Intellectual Property in different types of technology. His areas of professional interest and expertise include Corporate Law, Intellectual Property Law (Especially trade marks and patents) seen in the range of Licensing and outsourcing agreements in the area of Work Contracts and Research and Development in Pharmaceutical Industry in India as regards production of generics and medicines. He has also dealt with foreign regulation procedures related to technology transfer, transfer pricing, and issues of taxation, among other things. An all rounder by choice, is also involved with corporate transactions and mergers and acquisitions. As he embarks on an understanding of the basic dialectics of the regulation in respect of patenting life to foster commercial goals of transactions in intangible property, he looks at the tangible “public goods” produced in the R&D Industry as well as the “Public Interest” in improved market access to path-breaking advances in Biotechnology, thereby defining in the long term the public domain of such industry. This understanding is, in his view, essential to the understanding of the regulatory scenario governing licensing of Patents related to life and Living things of Intellectual Property Law professionals.

Christopher Hamilton

Chris is undertaking doctoral research at the BIOS Centre, Department of Sociology, at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research interests concern the development of intellectual property laws in conjunction with advances in the science and technology of genetics, and the impact of such laws in areas of traditional knowledge and “biopiracy.”

Rev Fr Roberto Latorre

Rev Fr Roberto Latorre is a Catholic priest, belonging to the Prelature of Opus Dei. He works as a Chaplain and as Assistant Professor in Religion at the University of Asia and the Pacific, located in Metro Manila, the Philippines . Fr Latorre holds a Bachelor of Science and a Masters degree in Physiology from the University of the Philippines and a Doctorate in Sacred Theology from the University of Navarre in Spain . Fr Latorre has done pastoral work in student chaplaincies and various formation centres. He also worked for the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines as the Executive Secretary of the Commission for the Doctrine of the Faith, and was the Director of the Research Office. He was a theological expert in the Special Assembly for Asia of the Synod of Bishops, held at the Vatican in 1998.

Patrick Juvet Lowe Gnintedem

Patrick holds a Bachelors Degree in Law and Political Science (University of Dschang), LL.M. (University of Dschang), 3 rd cycle diploma of International Environmental Law (University of Limoges), DEA in Law (University of Dschang). Patrick is currently undertaking research in connection with the patent law and development in French-speaking Africa , and is also working on the impact of the intellectual property rights on the protection of the environment. He is currently assistant lecturer at the University of Yaoundé-Sud Joseph NDI-SAMBA in Cameroon .

Purvi Mehta-Bhatt

Purvi is the Director of the non-governmental organisation, The Science Ashram, based in India . The Science Ashram works with 63 000 farmers in 150 villages in India , and is currently engaged in several projects related to intellectual proepty rights, especially for farmers and consumers. The Science Ashram has undertaken a study to understand farmers' perceptions of intellectual property rights and an impact assessment of such rights on developing countries like India . The Science Ashram also conducts capacity building and consultation workshops to build awareness of the issues and the future implications.

Marion Motari

Marion is a PhD candidate of the Economics and Policy Studies of Technical Change program, jointly run by Maastricht Economic Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT) and the United Nations University Institute for New Technologies (UNU/INTECH). Her general research work is in the economics of intellectual property rights (IPR) and in particular, the role of IPR in innovation systems and how they affect learning and innovation in developing countries. She holds an LLB degree in law and MSc. in Medical Sciences & Bioethics.

Loyd Brendan P Norella

Dr Norella graduated with an MD from the University of the Philippines in 1999 and a Masters in Public Health Methodology from Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium , in 2004. Aside from his clinical work serving HIV/AIDS NGOs in Manila , he is also an Assistant Professorial Lecturer for the Departments of Psychology and Behavioural Sciences at De La Salle University, Manila . Currently he is serving as a Research Fellow of the DLSU-Social Development Research Centre specialising in health and social science research and program management. His interest in the multi-disciplinary determinants of health-seeking behaviours, particularly in the field of HIV/AIDS and reproductive health, inspires his research that cuts across several disciplines. Dr Norella regularly writes for a health magazine in Manila and conducts lectures in Psychology and Social Science Research in various Philippine schools.

Chika B Onwuekwe

Dr Onwuekwe obtained his initial legal training in Nigeria , including a graduate degree (LL.M) from the University of Lagos . While in Nigeria , Dr Onwuekwe's practice was in the areas of Tax, Intellectual Property and Oil and Gas. Between 1995 and 2000 he worked as an Experienced Tax and Legal Consultant in KPMG Professional Services. Following further graduate work (LLM and PhD) at the University of Saskatchewan , Dr Onwuekwe joined Macleod Dixon LLP. His interdisciplinary doctoral thesis explored issues around traditional knowledge, biotechnology, trade institutions, the commons concept and the politics around access and benefit sharing. He is currently Assistant Professor of Law and Society at the University of Calgary . Dr Onwuekwe's research interests focuses on the legal, economic, governance and social issues of transformative technologies, especially biotechnology, genomics, traditional knowledge and nanotechnology. He teaches and publishes in these and related areas.

Adejoke Oyewunmi

Mrs Oyewunmi is a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, as well as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Commercial and Industrial Law, Faculty of Law, University of Lagos . She was formerly the Sub-Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Lagos . Between January and December 2000, she was a World Intellectual Property (WIPO) Fellow at the Franklin Pierce Law Centre, Concord , New Hampshire USA , where she obtained a Masters Degree in Intellectual Property Law (LLM IP). She also holds an Inter-Departmental Masters Degree (LLM) of the University of Lagos (1991), and a Bachelor of Laws Degree (LLB) of the Obafemi Awolowo University , Ile- Ife , Nigeria (1988), and was called to the Nigerian Bar in December 1989. In the course of her teaching and research experience, she has published papers in the area of intellectual property, labour law and other commercial and industrial law subjects.

Luigi Palombi

Luigi Palombi is an intellectual property lawyer and holds undergraduate degrees in law and economics and a doctorate of philosophy. He has practised law in Australia since 1982 and brought the first patent revocation case in Australian legal history in respect of a genetic sequence patent when in 1993 he brought suit against Chiron Corporation's hepatitis C virus patent. His success resulted in the world-wide settlement of that litigation. He then worked behind the scenes with other parties in the United States and Europe that continued to challenge Chiron's HCV patent before the EPO. In 2000 the EPO rejected all of the then existing claims to the HCV patent restricting Chiron's monopoly to nucleic acid based diagnostics. In 2001 he commenced his doctoral research into patents concerning biological materials and in 2004 completed his thesis entitled “The Patenting of Biological Materials in the Context of TRIPS”. His examiners were Professors Cornish, Drahos and Monotti. In 2005 he was awarded his doctorate from the University of New South Wales . He continues to consult in the field and has published articles on the subject. He is presently Biotech, Medical and Pharmaceutical Visiting Fellow in the Faculty of Law at UNSW, Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Governance of Knowledge & Development, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, and consults to Minter Ellison, an international law firm.

Diwakar Poudel

Diwakar's academic background is in Natural Resources Management and Agriculture. He holds an MSc (Norway) and is currently working in a national non-governmental organization, Local Initiatives for Biodiversity, Research and Development (LIBIRD), Nepal . He has been working as a socio-economist in the field of agrobiodiversity conservation for the past five years, where he has worked on economic valuation methods for the analysis of biodiversity, socio-economic studies on the management of biodiversity and its components, social network analysis for informal seed and information flow studies, and participatory research and development (PR & D). His research interests include biodiversity valuation, common-pool resources management, economic aspects of biodiversity, policy on agrobiodiversity, and the study of environmental benefits.

Dwijen Rangnekar

Dwijen is a Research Councils UK Senior Fellow at the University of Warwick – a post held jointly between the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation and the School of Law As an evolutionary economist, his research focuses on the innovation process, technical change, knowledge production, and appropriation strategies; of special interest is the role of intellectual property rights. The issues that are of interest include the transformation of the agro-food industries and the relationship between plant variety protection and patent law; biotechnology, the life science industries and patent law; intellectual property rights and plant genetic resources; the international politics of intellectual property rights; protection of traditional knowledge, rural development and the role of geographical indications and trade marks; and the impact of intellectual property rights on knowledge production. He teaches on the LLM program and is the course convenor for International Intellectual Property Rights and Policy. He has worked as a consultant for, inter alia, the UK Government's Commission on Intellectual Property Rights, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD), ActionAid, Oxfam, UK Food Group, Panos, and the World-Wide Fund for Nature.

Daniel Robinson

Daniel Robinson has an interdisciplinary background in environmental science, the social sciences and environmental law. Currently, Daniel is a doctoral researcher with the Geography Program at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). This research is also supported by the Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia (IPRIA). Daniel has also been acting as a research fellow to the Strategic Policy Project on Tropical Resources Base at the National Human Rights Commission of Thailand (NHRC). Most recently he has been working on the UNCTAD-ICTSD Project on Intellectual Property Rights and Sustainable Development for the ICTSD.

Edson Beas Rodrigues Jr

Edson is Coordinator of the Intellectual Property and Life Industry Group with the International Trade law and Development Institute, São Paulo, and is currently undertaking doctoral studies with the Law School of the University of Sao Paulo.

Stuart Smyth

Stuart recently completed in PhD in Biotechnology, where the focus of his research was on how societies deal with innovation and in particular the innovation of biotechnology. Much of his research has been focused on the relationship between innovation and liability. He has been a researcher for the Genetics, Economics, Environment, Ethics, Law and Society (GELS) Project of Genome Canada for the past three years.

Reetu Sogani

Reetu Sogani works with Community Awareness Centre (AADHAR), a non-governmental organisation operating in India . For the past eight years she has been research traditional knowledge in the middle Himalayan ranges. Her recent work included a study into grassroots initiatives in that region, including documentation, protection, development, and dissemination of people's knowledge and practices, both in ecological and economic concerns. Her research is particularly concerned with the need to ensure ongoing control over people's lives through the ongoing access to and control of resources.

Angela A Stanton

Angela is undertaking doctoral research in Economics at Claremont Graduate University . She holds a BS in Mathematics from UCLA, an MBA from UC Riverside, and an MS in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University . In addition to her academic research, Angela has many years of experience working in the corporate environment.

Sangeeta Udgaonkar