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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Antony\r\nTaubman is currently Director at the Intellectual Property, Government Procurement\r\nand Competition Division of the World Trade\r\nOrganization.
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\r\nFrom 2002 to 2009, he\r\nwas Director, Global Intellectual Property Issues Division of WIPO\r\n(including\r\nthe Traditional Knowledge Division and Life Sciences Program). After a\r\ndiplomatic career, he left the\r\nAustralian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) in 2001 to join the\r\nnewly\r\nformed Australian Centre for Intellectual Property in Agriculture, at the Australian\r\nNational University, teaching and researching on\r\ninternational IP law. From 1998 to 2001, Mr. Taubman was\r\nDirector of the International Intellectual Property Section of DFAT. He has held\r\npostgraduate\r\nteaching appointments at several universities include curriculum design and\r\nteaching\r\nat the University of Melbourne, the Australian National University, and Queensland\r\nUniversity\r\nof Technology, as well as numerous contributions to other educational and\r\ntraining programs in many countries.

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\r\nA registered patent\r\nattorney, Mr. Taubman worked in private practice in the law of patents,\r\ntrademarks\r\nand designs in Melbourne in the 1980s. In 2008, the Rockefeller Foundation\r\nawarded\r\nhim a Bellagio residential fellowship for his work on TRIPS and public policy\r\nissues.

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Erika\r\nDueñas\r\nleads the Intellectual Property Unit at WHO HQ/ Access to Medicines and Health\r\nProducts Division providing technical advice on issues related to innovation,\r\naccess to health technologies, and Intellectual Property (IP). She also\r\nsupports activities to build and strengthen national and regional capacities in\r\nthe intersections between public health, trade and IP. Erika worked at the Medicines Patent Pool\r\nand has more than 20 years of experience in the field of access to medicines,\r\ninnovation and IP. As a career diplomat, she worked many years for the Bolivian\r\ngovernment. After her diplomatic mission at the Embassy in Washington as Chargée d’Affaires, she\r\nwas Vice-Minister at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Bolivia. Erika holds a\r\nMaster’s degree in International Law and Economics (LLM) from the World Trade\r\nInstitute / Universities of Bern, Fribourg & Neuchâtel – Bern, Switzerland.

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\r\n\r\nMolly\r\n directs the Specialty Databases and Services Operations unit at CAS, \r\noverseeing and supporting consulting agreements and offering all special\r\n substance services offered by CAS. She leads several cross-functional \r\nteams to support CAS product and service offerings, including the \r\ncommercial chemistry offerings. CAS customers rely on the experience of \r\nMolly and her team for regulatory reporting, consulting, and \r\nformulations data structuring/ingredient exploration. Molly holds B.S. \r\nin Chemistry and MBA degrees from Ohio Dominican University and is a \r\nLean Six Sigma Black Belt.

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Siddhartha\r\nPrakash is a development economist with 25 years of international experience\r\nleading global health policies, projects and partnerships. Siddhartha has\r\nworked for international organizations such\r\nas the World Bank, World Trade Organization and World Health Organization, and\r\nheld senior management positions at several global pharmaceutical companies and\r\nconsulting firms. He has substantive experience in advising governments,\r\nindustry and NGOs on intellectual property, innovation and health policies and\r\nmanaging public private partnerships to strengthen health systems in Asia and\r\nAfrica.

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