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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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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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Director General, Philippines

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Rowel Barba is a respected name in business and law circles,\r\nhaving had over 20 years of experience. He is perhaps most known for his tenure\r\nin the RFM Corporation, a publicly listed corporation, where he used to be Vice\r\nPresident and Head of the Corporate Legal & HR Divisions; the JAKA Group,\r\nwhere he held several positions, eventually moving up to becoming the company’s\r\nVice President and Chief Legal Counsel; and as an Associate at the Ponce Enrile\r\nCayetano Reyes & Manalastas Law Offices.

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He obtained his Bachelor’s Degree in AB\r\nPolitical Science, as well as his Bachelor of Laws degree, from the University\r\nof the Philippines, where he also was on the editorial board of the Philippine\r\nLaw Journal. Other notable positions of his include being Governor for Southern\r\nLuzon of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) (1997-1999) and Legal\r\nCounsel of the Philippine Practical Shooting Association.

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Prior to his appointment as Director\r\nGeneral of the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines, he was\r\nUndersecretary for the Office of the Secretary at the Department of Trade and\r\nIndustry where he supervised the offices under it, namely: Foreign Trade\r\nService Corps (FTSC), the Construction Industry Authority of the Philippines\r\n(CIAP) and its implementing Boards, namely the Philippine Contractors Accreditation\r\nBoard (PCAB), Construction Industry Arbitration Commission (CIAC), Philippine\r\nOverseas Construction Board (POCB), Philippine Domestic Construction Board\r\n(PDCB) & the Construction Manpower Development Foundation (CMDF), Legal\r\nService (LS) and Internal Audit Service (IAS).

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He was also the Supervising\r\nUndersecretary of the Intellectual Property of the Philippines (IPOPHIL),\r\nPhilippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA), National Development Corporation\r\n(NDC) & the Philippine International Trading Corporation (PITC), attached\r\nagencies of the DTI.

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In his capacity as Chief of Staff of the\r\nOffice of the Secretary, Undersecretary Barba was the DTI Secretary’s alternate\r\nrepresentative in cabinet meetings with the President, and was the lead\r\nofficial for the organization of Presidential visits within the DTI.

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He concurrently sat in various\r\nboards of government corporations, agencies and councils such as the Maritime\r\nIndustry Authority (MARINA), Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) & the acting\r\nChairman of the Cagayan Economic Zone Authority (CEZA), among others. He also\r\nrepresents DTI in the Philippine Air Talks Panel.

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He was also formerly the Undersecretary\r\nfor the Management Services Group (MSG) and the Competitiveness and Ease of\r\nDoing Business Group (CEODBG) of DTI.

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He concurrently sits as Governor of the\r\nBoard of Investments (BOI) and Acting Chairman of the Cagayan Economic Zone\r\nAuthority (CEZA).

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Gaétan\r\nde Rassenfosse is Associate Professor in Science & Technology Policy at the\r\nÉcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). Before joining EPFL, he\r\nwas a senior research fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He\r\nobtained a Ph.D. in Economics from the Solvay Business School at the Université\r\nlibre de Bruxelles, Belgium, in 2010. He was a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley (California,\r\nUSA) in 2018 and MIT (Massachusetts, USA) in summer of 2019.

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The overarching objective of Gaétan’s research is to\r\nprovide the policy environment that best addresses the needs of the knowledge\r\neconomy. This objective is met by producing sound empirical evidence on\r\nresearch questions related to science, technology and innovation policy, with\r\nspecial interest in intellectual property issues. His work appeared in\r\ninternational peer-reviewed scientific journals such as Journal of Industrial\r\nEconomics, Journal of Law & Economics, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal,\r\nJournal of Economics & Management Strategy, Research Policy and European\r\nEconomic Review. He received more than $2.5 million in research funding from\r\ninstitutions including the U.S. NSF, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Swiss\r\nNetwork for International Studies, the Swiss National Science Foundation, and\r\nthe European Patent Office.

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