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Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property Law,
Queen Mary, University of London / Director, Queen Mary
Intellectual Property Research Institute
Having been engaged as a consultant in the fields of access to genetic resources and biotechnological patenting, Professor Blakeney has advised the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the international agricultural research centres of the Consulting Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), including the International Rice Research Institute, International Centre for Living Resource Management and the Centre for International Forestry Research on intellectual property management. His current research projects are in the fields of traditional knowledge and access to genetic resources.
Vice Chair
for South America, IUCN-Commission on Environmental
Law
Practising private law as Legal Director of Corporación Drokasa, a Peruvian group of corporations working in agriculture and pharmaceuticals, Dr Caillaux is the co-founder and current President of the Peruvian Society for Environmental Law (SPDA) - a leading NGO working in policy and environmental law in Peru and South America. Dr. Caillaux has given technical assistance to the Andean Community in the debates and drafting of the Andean Regime on Access to Genetic Resources enacted in 1996 (Andean Decision 391) as a common law for Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Peru and Venezuela.
Associate Director, Macquarie University Centre for
Environmental Law / Director Indigenous Law Program,
Macquarie University Division of Law
With over 20 years experience teaching environmental law in Australia, and as a member of the IUCN Law Commission, Associate Professor Craig's international experience includes representing the region as Vice-Chair of the Steering Committee of the Law Commission (1994-2001), as well as holding office as Regional Governor of the International Council on Environmental Law (ICEL) (1995-2002). Professor Craig has undertaken some of the earliest Australian research and practice in the areas of international environmental law and, indigenous rights, as well as environmental law and social and cultural impact assessment.
Professor of Law, Research Institutions Network,
Research School of Social Sciences, The Australian
National University
Holding degrees in law, politics and philosophy, and having been admitted as barrister and solicitor, Professor Drahos' extensive publications in law and social science journals cover a variety of topics such as intellectual property and legal theory. Some of his award-winning publications include Global Business Regulation, Cambridge University Press, 2000 (with John Braithwaite) and A Philosophy of Intellectual Property, Dartmouth (1996). In 2001, Professor Drahos co-edited "IP in Biodiversity and Agriculture", one of the volumes in Sweet & Maxwell's "Perspectives on Intellectual Property Series".
Professor of International Law, Iwate
University
An affiliate with the Japan Society of International Law, the Japan Society of World Law, the Japan Society of Wildlife Conservation, the Japan Society of Environmental Economics, Policy and Law, the Japan Society of Environmental Law and Policy and the Japan Bioindustry Association (JBA), Professor Isozaki is also a member of the Expert Group of SBSTTA of the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Commission on Environmental Law of IUCN. He has published the first Japanese textbook on international environmental law.
Director, Macquarie University Centre for
Environmental Law / Deputy Chair IUCN Commission on
Environmental Law
Appointed Queen's Counsel in 1978, Professor Jeffery practiced for many years at the Ontario Bar and was a senior partner (1990-1995) of one of Canada's largest law firms where he headed its environmental law practice group. His research interests lie primarily in the area of international environmental law and he has undertaken extensive research and published recent articles on climate change and the use of market-based financial mechanisms, bioprospecting, the impact of intellectual property rights and trade-related issues on biological diversity.
Vice-President of the Ethnobotany and Conservation of
PS Pharmaceuticals, Inc
Formerly the chief botanist for Latin America at Arlington Virginia's Nature Conservancy, as well as the Chief Operating Officer of Shaman Pharmaceuticals (2000-2002), Dr. King has also worked as a research associate for the Committee on Managing Global Genetic Resources at the National Academy of Sciences, and was a doctoral fellow at The New York Botanical Garden's Institute of Economic Botany. His ethnobotanical research experience covers countries as Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Indonesia, Mexico, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Guatemala.
Canada Research Chair in Law and Medicine,
Faculté de droit, Université de
Montréal / Chairperson, International Ethics
Committee, Human Genome Organisation (HUGO)
A Co-Founder of the International Institute of Research in Ethics and Biomedicine (IIREB) and a Co-Director of the Quebec Network of Applied Genetic Medicine (RMGA), Professor Knoppers also served as a member of the Canadian Biotechnology Advisory Committee (CBAC) in 1999, and was on the Standing Ethics Committee of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research in 2000. In June 2002, she worked with the CBAC to prepare its report to the Canadian government on the "Patenting of Higher Life Forms".
Thomas and Karole Green Professor of Law at
Washington University at St Louis
The recipient of the Law School Alumni Association's Distinguished Teaching Award, and named Teacher of the Year by law students in 2001, Professor McManis has taught and done research in universities throughout the United States and Asia. As a consultant for WIPO, he has also taught seminars in India, Korea, and China. In April 2002, he co-chaired the Conference on "Patenting Genetic Products" presented by the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies. In April 2003, he co-organized an inter-disciplinary conference on "Biodiversity, Biotechnology and the Protection of Traditional Knowledge" at the School of Law.
Acting
Director, Traditional Knowledge Division, WIPO
Secretariat
On secondment to the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) Secretariat, Mr Taubman is a senior lecturer at the Australian Centre for Intellectual Property in Agriculture at the Faculty of Law at the Australian National University. He was recently Director of the WTO Intellectual Property Section at Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade (1998-2001), and previously Senior Advisor (Strategic Planning and Policy Development) to the Director General, and Senior Program Officer (Asia-Pacific Region), in the World Intellectual Property Organisation (1995-1998).
Director, Indian Law Institute / President of the
International Association for the Advancement of
Teaching and Research Intellectual Property (ATRIP)
Based in New Delhi, Professor Verma was previously the Head of Department and Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Dehli. She received her S.J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1973. She is also a Life Member of the Indian Society of International Law (New Delhi), and a Member of the Indian Council of World Affairs (New Delhi). Dr Verma has published extensively in the area of Plant Genetic Resources, Biological Diversity and Intellectual Property Rights.
Associate
Dean, Shanghai Jiaotong University Law School /
Director, Environmental and Resources Law Institute,
Shanghai Jiaotong University
A member of the Academic Committee for Environmental Law at the P.R.C. Ministry of Education, for the Field of Environmental Law, Professor Wang is a member of the Executive Committee of the Chinese Society of Environmental and Resources Law. A member of the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law, he received Ph.D. in Law from Wuhan University in 2000. He has published a university textbook of International Environmental Law and a book on US Environmental Law.
Professor of Law, National University of
Singapore
Having taught intellectual and industrial property rights for more than 15 years at the Faculty of Law, Professor Wei is a barrister of the Inner Temple (London) and of the Hong Kong Bar, an Advocate and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore, as well as a member of the Copyright Tribunal of Singapore. He has written extensively in the area intellectual property rights and his most recent text book publication, entitled "An Introduction to Genetic Engineering, Life Sciences and the Law", was published in 2002.
Senior Research Fellow, the United Nations University Institute
for Advanced Studies (UNU/IAS)
Mr Johnston oversees the research priorities and develops new research activities for the Institute. His research interests include international law and global environmental change, international law and biotechnology and the Antarctica Treaty System. His other responsibilities include supervising the Post-Doctoral fellowship programme and representing the Institute at conferences such as XIX International Congress of Genetics. Mr Johnston is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Faculty of Law, University College, London and a Visiting Lecturer at the Graduate School of International Management, Aoyama Gakuin Univerisity, Tokyo.
Ambassador-At-Large, Republic of Singapore /
Director, Institute of Policy Studies / Chairman,
National Heritage Board
The co-chairman of the Advisory Committee of Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law, and formerly the Dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of Singapore, Professor Koh was Singapore's Permanent Representative to the United Nations and High Commissioner to Canada from 1968 to 1971 and again from 1974 to 1984. He was Ambassador to the United States of America from 1984 to 1990. Professor Koh was President of the Third UN Conference on the Law of the Sea from 1980 to 1982. He was Chairman of the Preparatory Committee and the Main Committee of the UN Conference on Environment and Development from 1990 to 1992. Between 2000 and 2003, he was also Singapore's Chief Negotiator for the US-Singapore Free Trade Agreement.
Senior Minister of State for Law and Home Affairs, Republic of Singapore
Associate Professor (A/P) Ho Peng Kee was elected as one of four Members of Parliament representing Sembawang Group Representation Constituency (GRC) in 1991. He was promoted to Senior Parliamentary Secretary, Minister of State and Senior Minister of State holding the same portfolios in 1996, 1997 and 2001 respectively. Concurrently, A/P Ho is Chairman of the PAP Community Foundation Executive Committee and Second Organising Secretary of the People's Action Party. A/P Ho was already active in social and community work when he entered politics. He was Master of NUS' Kent Ridge Hall of Residence, Chairman of the National Police Cadet Corps Council, Vice-President of the Consumers Association of Singapore (CASE) Central Committee and Church Elder. At the University, he held the positions of Sub-Dean and Vice-Dean of the Law Faculty.