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PeopleProfessor Peter Drahos, DirectorDr Janet HopeDr Anna HutchensDr Buddhima LokugeMr Cameron NeilDr Warwick NevilleDr Luigi PalombiMs Carolina Roa-RodriguezMs Carmencita San MiguelMr David Wishart
Professor Peter DrahosPeter Drahos is Director of the Centre for Governance of Knowledge and Development and the Head of Program of the Regulatory Institutions Network at the Australian National University. His former positions include Herchel Smith Senior Research Fellow in Intellectual Property at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary College, University of London and officer of the Australian Commonwealth Attorney-General's Department. He holds degrees in law, politics and philosophy and is admitted as a barrister and solicitor. He has published widely in law and social science journals on a variety of topics including contract, legal philosophy, telecommunications, intellectual property, trade negotiations and international business regulation. He has worked as a consultant on international intellectual property issues for a number of organizations, including the European Commission, the UK Commission on Intellectual Property Rights, the Commonwealth Secretariat, Oxfam and the ASEAN Secretariat.
Janet Hope has contributed widely to legal scholarship. She has published in constitutional, criminal, administrative, environmental, human rights and intellectual property law, and as government counsel, prepared complex written advice on immigration, labour, competition and communications law. In 2002, her research on biotechnology regulation in New Zealand contributed to national debate in the lead-up to the NZ Royal Commission on Genetic Modification and culminated in publication of the first scholarly history of this subject. Her timely review of the Commission's report was included in the news digest of the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, which informs international trade policy makers. In intellectual property, Ms Hope contributed the first substantial publication in the emergent field of open source biotechnology. In 2005, Dr Hope was awarded her PhD thesis titled 'Open Source Biotechnology'. In early 2008, Harvard University Press will publish her book 'Biobazaar: The Open Source Revolution and Biotechnology'. View publications at http://rsss.anu.edu.au/~janeth/
Dr. Hutchens has 5 years experience in researching and writing on the fair trade industry. Awarded her PhD, ‘Entrepreneurship, Power and Defiance: The Globalisation of the Fair Trade Movement’ in 2007, Dr. Hutchens’ recent research on Fair Trade will be published by Edward Elgar in her book Changing Big Business: The Globalisation of the Fair Trade Movement later this year. Dr. Hutchens’ research interests include fair trade value-chains and ‘mainstreaming’, Fair Trade labelling and brand companies; Fair Trade market development in the Asia Pacific region; and gender issues in private sector development in the Asia Pacific region. She was a participant in the Australian Government’s 2020 Summit in April 2008, and is currently a consultant to AusAID on ‘Pacific Women in Private Sector Development’, a joint AusAID-World Bank study on the barriers women entrepreneurs face in doing business in the Pacific. In her spare time, Dr. Hutchens is a freelance journalist on fair trade issues, and has been interviewed about fair trade on a number of local, regional and national radio programs.
Buddhima Lokuge is a health economist involved in health policy research and consulting. He is Director of the project on International Trade, Innovation and Population Health at the Centre for Governance of Knowledge and Development. He holds an Australian Postgraduate Award at the ANU and his research concentrates on the linkages between the world trade system, the drivers of innovation and the determinants of population health. Dr Lokuge has a medical degree from the University of Sydney and a Masters concentrating in health economics from Harvard. He has served as an elected representative for the Australian Medical Association and has worked for the NGO Médecins San Frontières in Afghanistan. He has several years of policy experience as an analyst with the Australian Government and as a consultant with the Australian based economics and Government relations consultancy, ACIL Tasman.
Cameron Neil is an energetic, young and experienced youth and development professional and entrepreneur. Cameron has created various organisations, networks and organisations in the social and community sector, and led, supported and delivered youth development services in the government, community and business sectors. He has a particular focus and passion for those people marginalised within society, and how the game might be changed so that all are 'free' - both the oppressed and the oppressor. Cameron has a strong social research background and his work and interests are increasingly global in nature and scope. In his official professional life, Cameron serves as CEO of the International Young Professionals Foundation, an international NGO he founded with four other Australian young professionals in October 2001. He will be working from 2005 to 2008 to build the IYPF in to a strong, vibrant and self sufficient NGO that informs, inspires and equips young professionals to be effective sustainability and social change agents. In addition, Cameron maintains an active interest in youth enterprise as a vehicle for liberation and social transformation. He is involved in the Youth Employment Summit. Cameron is the Fairtrade Certification Analyst for Oceania, working for the newly established Fairtrade Labelling Australia and New Zealand is one of a family of initiatives around the world operating the Fairtrade Certification and Labelling system. Having worked previously as the Development Coordinator of the Fair Trade Association of Australia & New Zealand, the regional peak body and membership organisation for fair trade, Cameron played a key role in establishing the Fairtrade Certification & Labelling system here. Cameron is very passionate about the ability of fair trade to assist disadvantaged families and communities in developing countries to gain greater control over the lives, meet their survival and growth needs, and break out of cycles of poverty. In his fair trade role, Cameron is part of the Centre for Governance of Knowledge and Development located within the Regulatory Institutions Network at the Australian National University.
Warwick Neville has formal qualifications in Arts (English Literature and Political Science) and Law from the University of Sydney . He undertook graduate studies in Washington DC and Rome, completing a doctorate in moral theology in 1992. Warwick was a commercial litigation partner with Norton Smith & Co in Sydney for a number of years, involving extensive commercial and legal contacts throughout south-east Asia and Europe. He has conducted litigation in the UK before the Privy Council as well as across a wide range of courts and jurisdictions throughout Australia, including a number of prominent cases before the High Court. Following his studies in the US and Rome, Warwick was appointed Research Fellow and Head of the Research Department of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, Canberra, a post he held for 12 years. During that time he appeared before numerous parliamentary committees and wrote detailed submissions on a wide variety of issues, ranging from native title to embryo research, from genetic registers to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and from gene patenting and human health to genetic privacy and non-discrimination. In addition to numerous presentations at conferences throughout Australia , he has published articles and contributed to books (here and overseas) in the areas of hermeneutics, human rights, discrimination and bioethics. Among other professional associations, he is a member of the Medico-Legal Society of NSW and the Australian Bioethics Association. Dr Luigi Palombi is an expert on biotechnology patents in Australia, the European Union and the United States of America. Luigi holds degrees in law and economics from the University of Adelaide and earned his PhD (The Patenting of Biological Materials in the Context of the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property) from the University of New South Wales. He has been a barrister and solicitor since 1982 and has specialised in intellectual property law since 1986. Having consulted for biotechnology companies around the world, he has played an important role in achieving greater public availability to the hepatitis C virus (HCV) genome, which during the 1990s was tightly controlled by Chiron Corp, the patent owner of isolated HCV genetic sequences and proteins. Since the early 90s he has focused his professional efforts on reducing the negative impact of patents over isolated genetic sequences on medical and scientific research. His work has led him to the development of a sui generis alternative to the patent system for biotechnological innovations and his present research is directed to the full development of what he calls the Genetic Sequence Right. In September 2005 he participated in a conference on Open Sourcing in Biotechnology held in Bellagio, Italy, at the invitation of the Rockefeller Foundation. The Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute has invited him to speak on Genetic Sequence Right at an international conference being held in London in December 2005. Luigi was invited to present at the 11th International Congress of Human Genetics held in Brisbane in August 2006. In November 2006, he was invited to present to the European Society of Human Genetics in Leuven, Belgium on the impact of patenting on human genetic research and the Genetic Sequence Right. Luigi has produced an Explanatory Memorandum to explain the rationale behind the need for a Genetic Sequence Right. Luigi is project director of the Genetic Sequence Right Project and investigator on the ARC Discovery Project 'The Sustainable Use of Australia's Biodiversity: Transfer of Traditional Knowledge and Intellectual Property'.
Carolina is a PhD scholar working on the multilevel governance of agricultural resources and the implications of the dynamics of rule based and norm based governance and regulatory frameworks in the research and development of crop resources in developing countries. Carolina has a BSc in Microbiology and Plant Biology as well as an MSc in Plant Biology. She also earned a Masters in International Law at the Australian National University. She worked for several years in the area of plant genetic diversity of tropical crops (cassava, a tuber crop and Brachiaria, a forage grass) at the Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT, Spanish Acronym), a CGIAR centre located in Cali, Colombia. Once in Australia, and after some time of more lab-based work, Carolina joined the Intellectual Property Resource at the Centre for the Application of Molecular Biology to International Agriculture (CAMBIA, today part of BiOS) as an Intellectual Property Analyst for four years. During this time she wrote several technology landscapes that analyse key patent positions on worldwide used biotechnologies (Agrobacterium-mediated transformation, promoters and selectable markers) and contributed to IP tutorials, all available at Patent Lens. During her PhD ‘life’ Carolina has worked as a consultant in the areas of IP and agriculture for BiOS and for Horticulture Australia. She is a Colombian and Australian citizen and speaks both Spanish and English fluently.
Carmencita San Miguel is a PhD student with the Centre for Governance, Knowledge and Development within the Regulatory Institutions Network of the Research School of Social Sciences at ANU. Carmencita has a Bachelor of Arts (in Latin American Studies) from Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, and a Master of International Affairs (specializing in international economic policy and Latin America) from Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs. David Wishart is a PhD student with the Centre for Governance, Knowledge and Development. Mr Wishart is Senior Lecturer in the School of Law at LaTrobe University, Melbourne. His fields of research include corporations law, competition policy and law, citizenship and law as to indigenous peoples. He has taught Competition Policy and Law, Law of Business Association and Commercial and Consumer Law. His current research projects focus on corporate law reform, demutualisation, the agreement as governance of indigenous peoples. In addition to his studies and work, Mr Wishart holds visiting positions at Carleton and Waikato Universities and is Book Reviews Editor with Law in Context. He is also involved in private practice and community legal services.
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