WIPO

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Mr. Zhao Fuwei

Associate Professor, Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences, Ministry of Ecology and Environment of China, China

Dr. Zhao has been engaging in policy research on genetic resources and traditional knowledge protection for many years. He is a member of the expert group for the national ABS legislation and member of the informal advisory group on capacity building of the Nagoya Protocol. As Chief Technical Advisor from 2019 to 2021, he carried out a UNDP - GEF project on the development and implementation of a national framework for access and benefit sharing arising from the use of genetic resources and traditional knowledge, which offered technical advice to the development and implementation of ABS regulations at the local level. He also lead the project on intellectual property strategy for genetic resources and traditional knowledge protection in 2017 and proposed legislative recommendations on disclosure requirements of genetic resources and traditional knowledge for the amendment of Patent Law and the Rules of Implementation of Patent Law.

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Ms. Ann Ruth Reyes

Division Chief, Agricultural and Biotechnology Examining Division of the Bureau of Patents, Philippines

Ms. Ann Ruth Reyes is the Officer-in-Charge of the Agricultural and Biotechnology Examining Division, Bureau of Patents of the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines. She is a highly trained Patent Examiner with more than 26 years of experience. She supervises and trains patent examiners of the Agricultural Biotech Examining Division as well as new examiners of the Bureau of Patents, renders decisions on applications with conflicting subject matters in the division, assists the Director/Asst. Director of the Bureau of Patents on issues relating to IP and is involved in the crafting and formulation of the guidelines in Biotechnology related applications and pharmaceutical applications as well as the International Preliminary Examination guidelines as IPOPHL has been appointed as an International Searching and International Preliminary Examination Authority.

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Mr. Benson Mpalo

Deputy Registrar- IP, Patents and Companies Registration Agency, Zambia

Mr. Benson Mpalo has worked at the Zambian Patent and Companies Registration Authority since 2015. He has a Master of Laws (LLM) from the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center.

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Mr. Axel Braun

President, Axel Braun Consulting

Dr. Axel Braun is President of Axel Braun Consulting advising clients on CBD-related policy matters. He was formerly responsible for global IP policy at F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. (Roche) in Basle and represented Roche in this function in the IP working groups of various industry associations, incl. the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations (IFPMA), in which he also chaired the CBD working group for many years. In this function he followed over many years the negotiation process in the IGC at WIPO. In addition, he followed the negotiations of the Nagoya Protocol as a member of the ICC business delegation and as technical adviser of the Swiss Delegation. After approval of the Protocol, he followed its implementation into national law in the EU and Switzerland. He was also a member of the ABS Consultation Forum established under the EU Regulation No 511/2014 and participated in the working group to support the establishment of further guidance for the interpretation of said Regulation. He practiced as a European Patent Attorney over many years and holds a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Munich, Germany (Max-Planck Institute of Psychiatry), a diploma degree in chemistry, also from the University of Munich (Max-Planck Institute of Biochemistry) and a bachelor degree of philosophy from the University of Heidelberg, Germany.

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