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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Honorary Lecturer, Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy (CEPMLP), University

of Dundee, Dundee United Kingdom

Mr. David Humphreys was Chief Economist of the Global Mining Company Rio Tinto to 2004 and of

Norilsk Nickel, Russia’s largest miner, until the end of 2008. He has written and lectured extensively on

the economics of the mining and metals industries, authoring over two hundred articles and papers and

the book, The Remaking of the Mining Industry (2015). He has been a Visiting Scholar at the Colorado

School of Mines, the Catholic University of Chile, the Transatlantic Academy in Washington D.C., U.S.,

and is an Honorary Lecturer at the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy (CEPMLP)

at the University of Dundee. He has a PhD from the University of Wales.

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WIPO Consultant, Department for Economics and Data Analytics (DEDA), Innovation\r\nEcosystems Sector, WIPO, Geneva

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\r\n\r\nMs. Giulia Valacchi is an external Consultant and\r\nformer Research Fellow in the Innovation Economics Section at the Department\r\nfor Economics and Data Analytics, IP and Innovation Ecosystems Sector of the\r\nWorld Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Geneva. Her research interests are in the field of\r\nenvironmental economics.","birthdate":"","country":null,"email":"","photourl":"https://c.connectedviews.com/assets/2a7d5780-f138-4f5a-ab2e-8c56fb5d9fea.jpg","name":"Ms. Giulia Valacchi","jobs":"","urls":""},{"id":224852,"bio":"\r\n\r\n

Julio Raffo is Head of the Innovation Economy Section at\r\nthe Department of Economics and Data Analytics of the World Intellectual\r\nProperty Organization (WIPO).

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Before joining WIPO, he had research experience in the\r\nÉcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL, Switzerland); the Institut\r\nFrançais des Relations Internationales (IFRI, France); the Pan-American Health\r\nOrganization (PAHO, USA); the Red Iberoamericana/Interamericana de Indicadores\r\nde Ciencia y Tecnología (RICYT); the Centro de Estudios en Ciencia, Desarrollo\r\ny Educación Superior (REDES/CONICET, Argentina); EUROSTAT’s Science, Technology\r\nand Innovation Statistics unit (STI, Luxembourg); and, the Instituto de Estudios\r\nSociales de la Ciencia (IEC-UNQ, Argentina).

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He holds an Economics degree from the Universidad de\r\nBuenos Aires, a Master degree in Industrial Organization, Innovations and\r\nInternational Strategy and a PhD in Economics from the Université de Paris Nord.\r\n

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His main research interests are the economics and metrics of\r\ninnovation and intellectual property, with a particular focus on their\r\nintersection with socioeconomic development.

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President, Innovation\r\nClub, Santiago de Chile

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Mr. Eduardo Bitran Colodro\r\nhas hold academic positions in the Department of Industrial Engineering of the\r\nUniversity of Chile and Engineering School of University Adolfo Ibáñez. He was Minister of Public Works of Chile, CEO\r\nof CORFO the Chilean Innovation Agency, President of the National Council of\r\nInnovation, and CEO of Fundación Chile, an innovation and company builder\r\ninstitution. Currently he is the\r\nPresident of Club de Innovación, the oldest private innovation hub in Chile, as\r\nwell as the Professor of innovation at University Adolfo Ibáñez.

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Biotech Researcher and\r\nEntrepreneur, Founder of Aguamarina and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Domolif,\r\nSantiago de Chile

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Ms. Pamela Chávez Crooker,\r\nis an Aquaculture Engineer, she holds a MSc., in Aquatic\r\nMicrobiology, a Ph.D. in Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology\r\nfrom Kyoto University, Japan and a Post Doctorate in Cellular\r\nPhysiology in Heavy Metals from the University of Hawaii, at Manoa, United\r\nStates of America (U.S.). She holds a diploma\r\nin Technologies, Innovation and Business from Adolfo Ibañez University,\r\nExecutive Business Program ECLA (Competitiveness of Entrepreneurship in Latin\r\nAmerica) at Columbia University, Columbia Business School in New York City. She also has a diploma in Female Leadership,\r\nIESE Business School, Spain.

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Head of Research of the\r\nCentre for International Environmental Studies (CIES), Lecturer, International\r\nEconomics, Graduate Institute of Geneva, and Associate Professor in\r\nEnvironmental Economics at the Vrije Universiteit (VU), Amsterdam

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Ms. Joëlle Noailly is Head of Research of the Centre\r\nfor International Environmental Studies (CIES) and Lecturer in the Department\r\nof International Economics at the Graduate Institute. She also holds an appointment as Associate\r\nProfessor in Environmental Economics at the Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam. Her research helps inform policymaking on\r\nissues of green growth, energy transition, net-zero carbon pathways, financing\r\nbreakthrough innovation and technology transfers to the developing world. Ms. Joëlle Noailly holds a PhD in\r\nenvironmental and resource economics from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, an\r\nM.Phil in economics from the Tinbergen Institute, and a M.Sc in environmental\r\neconomics from the University of Delaware, U.S.

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Vice-President, Corporate\r\nAffairs and Sustainability, GCM Mining, Medellín, Colombia

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Mr. Jose Ignacio Noguera Gómez is Vice-President of\r\nCorporate Affairs and Sustainability of GCM Mining. He is also President of Gran Colombia Gold\r\nSegovia, Sucursal Colombia and President of the Board of the Colombian Mining\r\nAssociation. Mr. Noguera Gómez is a\r\nLawyer who right now is studying a Master in Global Leadership at Yale\r\nUniversity. He previously did a Master in\r\nBusiness Administration and a postgraduate in insurance law. He started his career in the mining sector\r\nwith Prodeco S.A. Glencore Swiss Limited, then at ExxonMobil in different\r\npositions such as Lawyer for Colombia, Central America and the Caribbean and\r\nlater as Manager of Public Affairs and Government. Additionally, he is a university professor in\r\ndifferent institutions in the areas of Energy, Geopolitics , Public Affairs and\r\nCommercial Law

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Executive Director and CEO,\r\nCanada Mining Innovation Council (CMIC), Ottawa, Canada

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Mr. Carl Weatherell is a natural connector\r\nbringing together disparate and seemingly unrelated people, groups, and\r\norganizations to transform possibilities into plans and plans into action. Mr. Weatherell focuses on collaboration and\r\nbuilding innovation ecosystems to solve complex problems. His experience includes over 30 consortia\r\ncomprised of more than 500 organizations from businesses, government, and\r\nacademia, spanning industries from software, microelectronics, cybersecurity,\r\nphotonics, aerospace and defence, and mining. \r\nHe has won awards for breakthrough leadership and technology transfer\r\nand holds an M.Sc. from Carleton University and a B.Sc. from the University of\r\nWaterloo.

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