WIPO

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Deputy Director General, Patents and\r\nTechnology Sector, World Intellectual Property Organization\r\n(WIPO)

\r\nLisa Jorgenson is the Deputy Director General, Patents and\r\nTechnology Sector at the World Intellectual Property\r\nOrganization in Geneva, Switzerland which administers the\r\nPatent Cooperation Treaty. She also manages patent and\r\ntechnology legislative and policy advice and programs relating\r\nto the law of patents. She was previously the Executive Director\r\nat the American Intellectual Property Law Association and the\r\nGroup Vice President, Intellectual Property and Licensing at\r\nSTMicroelectronics. Lisa earned her BS degree in biology from St. Mary’s University in Notre\r\nDame, Indiana, her Master’s degree in Management from Purdue University and her JD from\r\nthe John Marshall Law School.

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Executive Director, Licensing\r\nExecutives Society International (LESI), United States of America

\r\nDana Robert Colarulli is an attorney and senior government affairs\r\nprofessional with more than two decades of experience working on\r\nlegal-related technology policy and intellectual property issues in\r\nand with the private sector and government.\r\n

He currently serves as the Executive Director of the Licensing\r\nExecutive Society International (LESI), the umbrella organization of\r\n33 national and regional associations in 90 countries around the\r\nworld, supporting professionals who license cutting-edge\r\ntechnology and intellectual property. He is also a partner at the\r\nconsulting firm ACG Advocacy LLC based in Washington, DC and\r\nsupports policy analysis and governmental engagement around\r\nintellectual property issues.\r\n

From 2009- 2019, Mr. Colarulli served as the Director of the Office of Governmental Affairs as a\r\nmember of the Executive Management team at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)\r\nfacilitating substantive patent, copyright and trademark and related policy discussions and\r\nadvocating for USPTO operational priorities. Prior to that role, Mr. Colarulli was the Director of\r\nGovernment Relations and Legislative Counsel for the Intellectual Property Owners Association\r\n(IPO). He has also worked in the U.S. Senate, in a DC-based Law Firm, at the U.S. Small\r\nBusiness Administration and at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.\r\n

He was born in Rhode Island and is a member of the Massachusetts Bar.

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Chief Executive\r\nOfficer, AUTM – The Leading Association in Technology Transfer

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Secretary General, International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)

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Medical Doctor, Inventor, Entrepreneur, and Associate Professor of\r\nLaboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic;

Lead Inventor of Key Technologies to Help Study,\r\nDetect and Treat Dangerous Clots Due to Certain COVID-19 Vaccines, United States of America\r\n(U.S.)

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Editor,\r\n Professorial Fellow (UNU-MERIT)

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Editor,\r\n Professor, University of Essex

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Editor, Head, Composite Indicator Research Section, Department for Economics and Data Analytics, IP and Innovation Ecosystems Sector (IES), WIPO

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Mr. Aleman, studied law at the Javeriana\r\nUniversity (J.D., 1991) where he also obtained a Corporate Law Certificate\r\n(L.L.M., 1996). He then obtained a Diploma in Advanced Studies (DEA) in\r\nResearch at the Alcala University (Spain, 2006), and a Ph.D. in Law (2011, Cum\r\nLaude).

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Mr. Aleman\r\npracticed as an IP Attorney from 1991 to 1995. He was then appointed Head of\r\nthe Colombian Industrial Property Office, from 1995 to 1998, and was invited as\r\na Fellow Visiting Researcher at the Max Planck Institute in Munich, Germany in\r\n1998. He joined WIPO in 1999 as Senior Program Officer, Office of Cooperation\r\nfor Development for Latin America and the Caribbean (from 1999 to 2006). He was\r\nthen appointed Deputy Director in the Division for Public Policy and\r\nDevelopment (from 2006 to 2009), Deputy Director of the Patent Law Division\r\n(from 2009 to 2013), and went on to be Director of the Patent Law Division. He\r\ncurrently holds the position of Assistant Director General, leading the IP and\r\nInnovation Ecosystems Sector (IES).

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Mr. Aleman is responsible for\r\nhelping Member States develop their IP and innovation ecosystems to drive\r\neconomic growth. He is also responsible for providing support for researchers,\r\ninnovators, and enterprises, including SMEs. Other key focus areas include IP\r\ncommercialization for business growth; emergence of IP as an asset class;\r\ndevelopment of advisory expertise on national IP strategies; economic analysis\r\non the role IP plays in promoting innovation and creativity; strengthening ADR\r\nand the services provided by the Arbitration and Mediation Center; and\r\nproviding technical assistance to the judiciary, as well as services related to\r\nthe legal databases.

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Director, Extended Enterprise Risk Management, Deloitte Consulting and Advisory, Chair of the ICC Commission on Intellectual Property - Task force member for the ICC Innovation Principles

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Ambassador, Permanent Representative of the Gambia to the United Nations Office at Geneva, Regional Coordinator for the African Group

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Chair, AUTM Board and Technology Transfer Officer, Non-for-profit organization, Blood Research Institute Versiti Inc.

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Research\r\nLeader, Institute for Applied Economic Research (IPEA), Brazil

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President, Chinese Academy of Science and Technology for Development (CASTED), China

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Chair of LESI Life Sciences Committee, Presidenr of LES India, and Partner, Krishna and Saurastri Associates LLP, India

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Edward Ball Eminent Scholar Professor of Law, Florida State University\r\nCollege of Law, USA

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Public Affairs, Science and Sustainability Executive Manager, Bayer, Brazil

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Corey\r\nSalsberg is Vice President and Global Head of IP Affairs for Novartis, a global healthcare company with a\r\npresence in over 140 countries that is one of the world’s leading\r\nbiopharmaceutical innovators. He also\r\nserves as Secretary of the Board of Directors of the Federal Circuit Bar Association, and as a Board Member of California Lawyers for the Arts, a\r\nnot-for-profit legal aid society that serves the creative arts and inventor\r\ncommunities.

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A\r\ngraduate of Stanford Law School and Yale University, Corey is a seasoned\r\nattorney with over two decades of legal, policy and advocacy experience. He is one of the founders and developers of\r\nthe Inventors Assistance Program, a\r\nWIPO-World Economic Forum initiative that provides pro bono legal services to\r\nunder-resourced inventors in developing countries; Pat-INFORMED, a global online database of medicine-related patent\r\ninformation co-sponsored and hosted by WIPO and the International Federation of\r\nPharmaceutical Manufacturers (IFPMA); and most recently, the IP PACT, a\r\ngroundbreaking set of principles and commitments that publicly sets forth the\r\npatient-centric approach to IP shared by its company signatories.

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A recognized\r\nthought leader and frequent contributor around the world, Corey enjoys being at\r\nthe leading edge of the global conversation around IP, innovation, access and\r\ntrade. He has testified as an expert\r\nbefore the United States Senate, speaks regularly to government, academic and\r\npublic audiences, and frequently appears in media.

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Associate\r\nProfessor, Questrom School of Business, Boston University, Boston, United\r\nStates of America (U.S.)

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Chief Economist, Department for Economics and Data Analytics, IP and Innovation Ecosystems Sector, WIPO, Geneva.

Carsten Fink is the Chief Economist of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) based in Geneva. Before joining WIPO, he was Professor of International Economics at the University of St.Gallen. He also held the positions of Visiting Professor at the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris and Visiting Senior Fellow at the Groupe d’Economie Mondiale, a research institute at Sciences Po.

Prior to his academic appointments, Mr. Fink worked for more than 10 years at the World Bank. Among other positions, he was a Senior Economist in the International Trade Team of the World Bank Institute, working out of the World Bank’s office in Geneva and an Economist in the Trade Division of the World Bank’s research department, based in Washington, DC.

Mr. Fink’s research work – focused on intellectual property, innovation, and international trade – has been published in academic journals and books. He holds a doctorate degree in economics from the University of Heidelberg in Germany and a Master of Science degree in economics from the University of Oregon in the United States.

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Program Officer, Composite Indicator Research Section, Department for Economics and Data Analytics

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