Marco ALEMAN

Marco Matias Aleman, Colombian, Studied law at the Javeriana University (Colombia, 1986 to 1991) and obtained a Corporate Law Certificate at the same university (1996). He received a Diploma in Advanced Studies (DEA) in Research at the Alcala University (Spain, 2006) and a Ph.D. in Law (Cum Laudem) at the same university. Mr. Aleman is the author of Andean Legal Framework on Trademarks (Bogota, 1994) and coauthor of several books, the most recent ones being: Studies in Homage to Mariano Uzcátegui Urdaneta (Caracas 2011) and Bilateral Trade Agreements and Intellectual Property (Heidelberg, 2014). Mr. Aleman has been invited speaker in several specialized forums in Latin America and other regions, as well as invited professor at the universities of Externado, Javeriana and Rosario (Bogota, Colombia) and Andes (Venezuela).

Before joining the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in 1999, he practiced as an IP lawyer (1991 to 1995); then he was appointed by the Colombian President as the Head of the Industrial Property Office (1995-1998) and eventually, he was invited as a Fellow Visiting Researcher at the Max Planck Institute in Munich, Germany (1998). Mr. Aleman joined WIPO (Geneva, Switzerland) as Senior Program Officer, Office of Cooperation for Development for Latin America and the Caribbean (1999 to 2006); later he was appointed as Deputy Director, Division for Public Policy and Development (2006 to 2009) and currently holds the position of Acting Director, Patent Law Division.

Languages: Spanish, English, and French

Graeme AUSTIN

Graeme W. Austin is Professor of Law at Melbourne University Law School and Chair in Private Law and Associate Dean (Research) at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He has a doctorate in laws from Columbia University, where he was the Burton Fellow in Intellectual Property. He is co-author of a leading casebook in international intellectual property (together with Prof Graeme Dinwoodie and others). His latest book is Human Rights and Intellectual Property: Mapping the Global Interface (Cambridge University Press), co-authored with Professor Larry Helfer.

Graeme DINWOODIE

Graeme B. Dinwoodie is the Professor of Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law at the University of Oxford, Director of the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre, and a Professorial Fellow of St. Peter's College. Professor Dinwoodie holds law degrees from the University of Glasgow, Harvard Law School (where he was a John F. Kennedy Scholar), and Columbia Law School (where he was a Burton Fellow). Prior to taking up the IP Chair at Oxford, Professor Dinwoodie was a Professor of Law and Director of the Program in Intellectual Property Law at the Chicago-Kent College of Law. He has also previously taught at the University of Cincinnati College of Law and the University of Pennsylvania School of Law, and from 2005-2009 held a Chair in Intellectual Property Law at Queen Mary College, University of London. He was elected to membership in the American Law Institute in 2003, and served as President of the International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP) from 2011-2013. In 2008, the International Trademark Association awarded Professor Dinwoodie the Pattishall Medal for Teaching Excellence in Trademark Law. He is the author of numerous articles and books on trade mark law and on international and comparative intellectual property law.

Rochelle DREYFUSS

Rochelle C. Dreyfuss is the Pauline Newman Professor of Law at New York University School of Law and Co-director of the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy at NYU. Her research interests include international and domestic intellectual property law as well as civil procedure. She holds B.A. and M.S. degrees in Chemistry and was a research chemist before entering Columbia University School of Law, where she served as Articles and Book Review Editor of the Law Review. She was a law clerk to Chief Judge Wilfred Feinberg of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and to Chief Justice Warren E. Burger of the U.S. Supreme Court. She is a member of the American Law Institute and was a co-Reporter for its Project on Intellectual Property: Principles Governing Jurisdiction, Choice of Law, and Judgments in Transnational Disputes. She was a consultant to the Federal Courts Study Committee, to the Presidential Commission on Catastrophic Nuclear Accidents, and to the Federal Trade Commission and served on the Secretary of Health and Human Services' Advisory Committee on Genetics Health and Society [SACGHS]. She is a past chair of the Intellectual Property Committee of the American Association of Law Schools. She was also a member of the National Academies Committee on Intellectual Property in Genomic and Protein Research and Innovation as well as the Committee on Intellectual Property Rights in the Knowledge-Based Economy, and the Committee on Science, Technology, and Law and on International Law Association's Committee on Intellectual Property and Private International Law. Her most recent books are A Neofederalist Vision of TRIPS: The Resilience of the International Intellectual Property Regime (with Graeme B. Dinwoodie) and Balancing Wealth and Health: The Battle over Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines in Latin America (with Cesar Rodriguez).

Susy FRANKEL

Susy is Professor of Law and Director of the New Zealand Centre of International Economic Law, at the Faculty of Law, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She is also Chair of the Copyright Tribunal (NZ). In 2013-2014 she was a Senior Fulbright School and Hauser Senior Global Research Fellow at New York University, Law School. She has been a visiting Professor at the University of Iowa and the University of Western Ontario, and a Fellow of Clare Hall and visitor to the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law, University of Cambridge (UK). She is president-elect of Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP) and a member of the editorial boards of Journal of World Intellectual Property, Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property, University of Western Australia Law Review and the Journal of Legal Studies (UK). She has published widely on the nexus between international intellectual property and trade law, focusing on international treaty interpretation and the protection of traditional knowledge. Her books include Intellectual Property in New Zealand (LexisNexis 2011), (with Peter Drahos) Indigenous Peoples Innovation: Intellectual Property Pathways to Development (ANU epress, 2012). Susy's research extends to regulatory theory and particularly the impacts of international trade on regulatory autonomy over knowledge assets and innovation. She was Project Leader of the New Zealand Law Foundation Regulatory Reform Project (funded to NZ$2million) from 2011-2013. Susy holds an appointment as a Neutral for the World Intellectual Property Organization Arbitration and Mediation Centre, Geneva, Switzerland. She has previously been an Assistant Commissioner of Trade Marks, Patents and Designs for the Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand, 1998-2006. In that capacity she acted as an independent Hearings Officer, mostly relating to trade mark oppositions. She was specialist intellectual property adviser to the Waitangi Tribunal on the claim brought against the New Zealand government by Maori about the protection of traditional knowledge and Maori intellectual property. Susy qualified as Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand in 1988 and as a Solicitor of England & Wales in 1991 and has practised law in both jurisdictions.

Albert HU

Albert Guangzhou Hu is Associate Professor of Economics at the China Europe International Business School and the National University of Singapore. He received his Ph.D. in International Economics from Brandeis University in 1999, and BA in International Finance at Nankai University in 1991. His areas of research interests include Economics of Technological Change, Development Economics, International Economics and Economies of China and East Asia. He has published extensively in the areas of East Asian economies, particularly the Chinese economy in journals including China Economic Review, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Research Policy, Review of Economics and Statistics, and World Economy. He has served on the Editorial Board of China Economic Review and also the Board of Directors of Chinese Economists Society. He has provided consulting services to companies and organizations such as Asian Development Bank, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, World Bank and World Intellectual Property Organization.

Annette KUR

Professor Kur is a senior member of research staff and Head of Unit at the Max-Planck-Institute (MPI) for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law. She is affiliated professor and honorary doctor at the University of Stockholm and honorary professor at the University of Munich (LMU). She was awarded the title of doctor honoris causa by the University of Stockholm (September 2012) and the Swedish School of Economics in Helsinki (official ceremony to be held in November 2014). She teaches also at Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (MIPLC), and is a member of foreign faculty, Santa Clara University (CA). She was a visiting professor (Hauser Global Law School Program) at NYU, New York, in autumn 2006 and spring 2009, as well as at the University of Montpellier (2010) and Paris (Paris II, Université PANTHEON-ASSAS), March 2012. In spring 2013, she was Yon Shook Lin IP professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS). She was President of the International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP) for the term 2007-2009. Professor Kur is the author of books and numerous articles in the field of national, European and international trademark, unfair competition and industrial design law as well as international jurisdiction and choice of law.

Elizabeth Siew-Kuan NG

Associate Professor Elizabeth Siew-Kuan NG is the Director (Intellectual Property), Centre for Law & Business; Director, Master of Laws (IP & Technology) programme; and Director, Graduate Certificate in IP, at NUS Law. She is a Barrister-at-Law, Middle Temple (England) and an Advocate and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore. She graduated with a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) from Queen Mary College, University of London with several prizes for academic merit, and subsequently obtained a Master of Laws with First Class from the University of Cambridge where she was awarded the Clough prize. She has held consultancy and visiting appointments at various international organizations and institutes including the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) (Geneva); Max Planck Institute of Intellectual Property (Munich); US Court of Appeal for the Federal Circuit (Washington DC); EAIEL ICT Research Network (University of Hong Kong). She has delivered numerous papers at international IP conferences and published books, articles and studies (including 2 patent law studies commissioned by the WIPO on The Impact of the International Patent System on Developing Countries (2003) and the Effective Use of Patent Related Flexibilities and Implementation at the National or Regional Levels in Selected Asian Countries (2011, revised 2013). Recent publications include "ASEAN IP Harmonization: Striking the delicate balance" [2013] Pace International Law Review; "Evolving landscape of patent remedies in a changing marketplace" (2012) Singapore Academy of Law Journal; "The impact of the bilateral US-Singapore Free Trade Agreement on Singapore's post-TRIPS Patent Regime in the Context of Pharmaceuticals" (2010) International Trade Law & Regulation; "Global health and development: patents and public interest" in Pogge, Rimmer & Rubenstein, Incentives for Global Public Health (Cambridge University Press, 2010), "Patent Trolling: Innovation at Risk" [2009] European Intellectual Property Review.

Ruth OKEDIJI

Ruth L. Okediji is the William L. Prosser Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School, where she teaches copyright, trademarks, contracts and international intellectual property law. Professor Okediji is a leading expert on the relationship between developing and developed countries in the international intellectual property system, and on development issues related to the harmonization of intellectual property rights. She has written, lectured and published extensively on these topics in leading national and international legal journals. Her books Patent Law in Global Perspective (co-authored with Margo Bagley) and International Patent Law and Policy (co-authored with Margo Bagley and Jay Erstling) were published in 2013 by Oxford University Press and West Publishing respectively. Professor Okediji is also co-author of the leading copyright casebook Copyright in a Global Information Economy now going into its fourth edition. She regularly provides assistance to numerous national governments and regional economic communities on a variety of intellectual property and development issues. She also works closely with intergovernmental organizations in the development of diagnostic tools to assess the impact of IP treaties on development priorities. Professor Okediji is a member of the New York Bar Association, the American Bar Association and is the Vice President of the Order of the Coif. She received her LL.B. in 1989 from the University of Jos, her LL.M and S.J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1991 and 1996 respectively.

Jerome REICHMAN

JEROME H. REICHMAN is the Bunyan S. Womble Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law, Durham, North Carolina. He has written and lectured widely on diverse aspects of intellectual property law, including comparative and international intellectual property and the connection between intellectual property and international trade laws. His articles in this area particularly address problems that developing countries face in implementing the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS Agreement). He is consultant to numerous intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations, a member of the Board of Editors for the Journal of International Economic Law, and of the Scientific Advisory Board of Il Diritto di Autore (Rome).

He is a graduate of the University of Chicago, where he was a Hutchins Scholar and an early entrant. He is also a graduate of Yale Law School. He worked for the UN in Geneva in the 1970s and then taught at Ohio State and at Vanderbilt. He has taught at Duke for the last 13 years.

In collaboration with Keith Maskus, he published INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC GOODS AND TRANSFER OF TECHNOLOGY UNDER A GLOBALIZED INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY REGIME (Cambridge Press, 2005). Among his most recent publications in this area are Intellectual Property in the 21^st Century: Will Developing Countries Lead or Follow? (2009); Compulsory Licensing of Patented Pharmaceutical Inventions: Evaluating the Options (2009); Rethinking the Role of Clinical Trial Data in International Intellectual Property Law: The Case for a Public Goods Approach (2009); Harmonization Without Consensus: Critical Reflections on Drafting a Substantive Patent Law Treaty (2007) (co-authored with Prof. Rochelle Dreyfuss); and The Doha Round's Public Health Legacy: Strategies for the Production and Diffusion of Patented Medicines Under the Amended TRIPS Provisions (2007) (co-authored with Prof. Fred Abbott).

He is currently publishing a book entitled GOVERNING DIGITALLY INTEGRATED GENETIC RESOURCES, DATA AND LITERATURE: GLOBAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY STRATEGIES FOR A REDESIGNED MICROBIAL RESEARCH COMMONS (co-authored with Tom Dedeurwaerdere and Paul Uhlir, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2015).

Much of his work deals with International Intellectual Property Law, with special reference to the problems of developing countries, to the impact of IP on global public health, and to the impact of expanding intellectual property rights on global science policy. He currently serves as United States delegate to the Belmont Forum project on establishing a global infrastructure for climate change data. He is also external advisor to the European Commission’s RECODE Project on encouraging open access to published scientific data and literature.

Megan RICHARDSON

Megan Richardson is a Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Centre for Media and Communications Law at the Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne, Australia. Her main fields of research and publication are privacy and personality rights, intellectual property and law reform. Recent publications include Fashioning Intellectual Property: Exhibition, Advertising and the Press, 1789-1918 (Cambridge University Press, 2012), co-authored with Julian Thomas, and Breach of Confidence: Social Origins and Modern Developments (Edward Elgar, 2012), co-authored with Michael Bryan, Martin Vranken and Katy Barnett. She is currently a member of the advisory group for the Australian Law Reform Commission's inquiry into the protection of privacy in the digital era (2013-2014).

Christopher SPRIGMAN

Chris Sprigman teaches intellectual property law, antitrust law, competition policy and comparative constitutional law. His scholarship focuses on how legal rules affect innovation and the deployment of new technologies. He is the author of numerous articles both in law reviews in the popular press, as well as a book, The Knockoff Economy: How Imitation Sparks Innovation (Oxford 2012), co-authored with Kal Raustiala of the UCLA School of Law. Sprigman received his B.A. with honors from the University of Pennsylvania in 1988. He attended the University of Chicago Law School, serving as a comment editor of the University of Chicago Law Review and graduating with honors in 1993. Following graduation, Sprigman clerked for Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and for Justice Lourens H. W. Ackermann of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. Sprigman also taught at the law school of the University of the Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg, South Africa. From 1999 to 2001, Sprigman served as appellate counsel in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, where he worked on U.S. v. Microsoft, among other matters. Sprigman then joined the Washington, D.C., office of King & Spalding, where he was elected a partner. In 2003, he left law practice to become a Residential Fellow at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School. He joined the University of Virginia faculty in 2005, and moved from UVA to NYU Law School in 2013.

David TAN

David Tan holds a PhD from Melbourne Law School, a Master of Laws from Harvard, and graduated with first class honours in law from the University of Melbourne. His areas of research cover celebrity image and privacy rights, copyright, trademarks and freedom of expression. His law publications have appeared in a wide range of journals that include Harvard Journal of Sports & Entertainment Law, Yale Journal of International Law, Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal, Media & Arts Law Review, Australian Intellectual Property Journal, Singapore Journal of Legal Studies, Sydney Law Review and Law Quarterly Review.

At NUS Law School, David has pioneered courses in Entertainment Law and Freedom of Speech. His recent publications in this area include an evaluation of the transformative use doctrine in copyright fair use, the subsistence of copyright in compilation works and contemporary art, and a semiotic analysis of well-known marks. David is also a fashion and fine art photographer who has contributed to top fashion magazines like Harper's Bazaar and Elle, and has held solo exhibitions presented by luxury brands Cartier and Versace.

Julian THOMAS

Julian Thomas is Director of the Swinburne Institute for Social Research and a Professor of Media and Communications at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. His research interests lie in new media, information policy and the histories of communications technologies. Recent publications include Fashioning Intellectual Property: Exhibition, Advertising and the Press, 1789-1918 (Cambridge University Press, 2012), coauthored with Megan Richardson, and The Informal Media Economy (Polity, 2014), coauthored with Ramon Lobato. Julian is also a member of the Consumer Consultative Forum of the Australian Media and Communications Authority.