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Ms. Edwina Lewis

Director of Policy and International Affairs, IP Australia, Australia

Edwina is a Director of Policy and International Affairs at IP Australia. She is responsible for leading IP Australia’s policy development for select issues such as Indigenous Knowledge. This includes IP Australia’s Indigenous Knowledge workplan, considering how the IP system can better support Australia’s First Nations Peoples benefit from their Indigenous knowledge and culture.

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Mr. Bai Guangqing

Director General, International Cooperation Department, China National Intellectual Property Administration, China

Mr. Bai Guangqing is the Director General of International Cooperation Department of the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA). He has been working in the field of Intellectual Property for more than three decades since joining the CNIPA as a patent examiner in the area of Chemistry in 1989. He has worked for several years at the Patent Reexamination Board (PRB), CNIPA and was appointed as Deputy Director General of PRB in 2004. In 2006-2007, Mr. Bai served on secondment as Deputy Mayor of Huang Shi City, Hubei Province, with special responsibility for innovation, competitiveness and Industrial Property policy. He graduated from School of Medicine, Peking University. His postgraduate qualifications consist of a master degree in Law from Peking University, and an EMBA from School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University. In 2002, he studied Intellectual Property Law at John Marshall Law School, United States as a visiting scholar.

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Mr. Huang Shaowen

Professor and Director of the Ethnic Cultural Heritage Research Centre of Honghe College, Yunnan Province, China

Mr. Huang Shaowen, of the Hani ethnic group, is a Professor and Director of the Ethnic Cultural Heritage Research Centre of Honghe College. He has published four personal monographs, including Research on Traditional Ecological Culture of the Hani Ethnic Group in Yunnan, and more than 40 academic papers. He has presided over two research projects of the National Social Science Foundation, and has been awarded one second prize and one third prize of the “Excellent Achievements in Philosophy and Social Science of Yunnan Provincial Government”.

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Ms. Xing Yue

Vice President, Alibaba Group

Before her current position, Ms. Xing Yue was Deputy General Manager of Tmall Global, responsible for business strategy and public affairs of Tmall Import & Export, and supported the final implementation of Alibaba Group’s globalization strategy in retail business. She also previously served as Director of Public Affairs for Cainiao Network (Alibaba's logistics arm) before joining Tmall Global. She was a senior executive of Hong Kong Dragon Airlines Limited before joining Alibaba Group. Many years of experience working in traditional industry combined with her experience at Alibaba Group has enabled her to have a thorough understanding of the integrated development of the Internet and traditional industries, as well as the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries. Xing Yue holds a Master degree in management from Tongji University.

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Ms. Liz Lenjo

Managing Consultant, MYIP Legal Studio, Kenya

Ms. Liz Lenjo is the Founder and Managing Consultant of MyIP Legal Studio. She specializes in Intellectual Property, Entertainment, Media, and Fashion Law. Liz has been appointed as the current Chairperson of the Copyright Tribunal. She is an adjunct faculty member at the Strathmore University Law School where she teaches Media and Entertainment Law, and Business Law. Liz is also a tutor with CopyrightX by HarvardXKenya, which the GoDown Arts Center runs. She is a volunteer with the Kenya Bureau of Standards as the Chairperson of the Intellectual Property Committee and the Kenya Fashion Council as the Head of Intellectual Property & Policy in the Legal Committee. Liz holds a Master of Laws (LL.M) in Intellectual Property Law from the University of Turin (Italy) and World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) from the Catholic University of Eastern Africa (CUEA), and a Postgraduate Diploma Kenya School of Law. She also holds a Certificate in Fashion Law from Fashion Law Institute - Fordham University Law School (New York).

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Ms. Fanny Vergara Ibarra
Vargas Torres, Ecuador

Agricultora,\r\n recolectora de frutos silvestres, promotora cultural, cocinera de \r\ncomida ancestral y tradicional. Promueve el turismo gastronómico de la \r\nProvincia de Manabí a través de experiencias gastronómicas, para \r\nestudiantes de gastronomía, chefs, cocineros nacionales y extranjeros. \r\nHa cocinado para importantes chefs reconocidos a nivel mundial, como el \r\nactual Chef campeón del mundo David Tissof, ganador del Bocuse d’ oro de\r\n Francia, quien recién nos visitó en nuestro restaurante de comida local\r\n y tradicional. Promueve el turismo rural comunitario a través de las \r\ntradiciones gastronómico en la que destaca el Horno de leña, sus \r\ntécnicas y conocimientos heredados de sus ancestros a través de la \r\noralidad de generación en generación. Investiga y promociona sus \r\norígenes para la innovación de recetas y productos con base en la \r\ntradición, como el tomatillo silvestre con el cual ha ganado un concurso\r\n para la comunidad denominado “Relatos cortos de la OMPI”

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