Participants

Economists, political scientists,
and Interdisciplinary Experts

Ashish Arora, Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University

Eric Bond, Professor of Economics, Pennsylvania State University

Lee Branstetter, Associate Professor of Business, Columbia University Business School

Wesley Cohen, Professor of Economics and Management, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University

Paul David, Professor of Economics, University of Oxford and Stanford University

Graham Dutfield, Herchel Smith Senior Research Fellow, Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute, University of London

Wilfred Ethier, Professor of Economics, University of Pennsylvania

Robert Evenson, Professor of Economics, Yale University

Carsten Fink, Economist, Development Research Group, The World Bank

Henry Grabowski, Professor of Economics, Duke University

Robert O. Keohane, James B. Duke Professor of Political Science, Duke University

William Kingston, Professor, School of Business Studies, Trinity College, Dublin

Samuel Kortum, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Minnesota

Tracy Lewis, Professor of Economics, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University

James Love, Director, Consumer Project on Technology

Eric Maskin, A.O. Hirschman Professor of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study

Keith Maskus, Professor and Chair, Department of Economics, University of Colorado at Boulder

Richard Nelson, Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University

Jonathan Putnam, Assistant Professor, Centre for Innovation Law and Policy, University of Toronto Faculty of Law

Kamal Saggi, Associate Professor of Economics, Southern Methodist University

Suzanne Scotchmer, Professor of Economics and Public Policy, University of California at Berkeley

Timothy Swanson, Professor and Chair of Law and Economics, University College London

Geoff Tansey, TRIPS Programme Consultant, Quaker United Nations Office, Geneva

Antony Taubman Acting Director, Traditional Knowledge Division, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Senior Lecturer, Australian National University

Jayashree Watal, Counsellor, Intellectual Property Division, World Trade Organization (WTO)

Conference Fellows

Shakeel Bhatti, Senior Program Officer, Genetic Resources, Biotechnology and Associated Traditional Knowledge Section, Global Intellectual Property Issues Division, WIPO

Boniface Guwa Chidyausiku, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Republic of Zimbabwe to the United Nations

Brett Frischmann, Assistant Professor, Loyola University Chicago School of Law

Daniel Gervais, Oslers Professor of Technology Law, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa

Paul Heald, Allen Post Professor of Law, University of Georgia School of Law

Sang Jo Jong, Professor, Seoul National University College of Law

Zhou Lin, Professor and Director, Intellectual Property Center of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Sisule Fredrick Musungu, Project Officer, Intellectual Property Project, Programme on International Trade and Development, South Centre

Bojan Pretnar, Deputy Director, Trademarks, Industrial Designs and Geographical Indications Department, WIPO

S.K.Verma, Director, Indian Law Institute, Professor of Law, University of Delhi, India

Peter Yu, Acting Assistant Professor of Law & Executive Director, Intellectual Property Law Program, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law