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Ambassador and Permanent Representative of The Gambia to the UN Office at Geneva, World Trade Organization (WTO), and other offices in Geneva.

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He\r\npreviously served as Adjunct Professor of Constitutional Law and Internet Law at Bocconi\r\nUniversity, where he was also the Coordinator of the LLM in Law of Internet Technology from\r\n2020 to 2023. He obtained his PhD in Constitutional Law and European Law from the University\r\nof Verona in 2016. A qualified lawyer with the Bar of Milan (Italy) since 2013, Dr. Bassini has\r\nover a decade of experience combining academic research with legal practice. He has worked\r\nas data protection counsel at international law firms in Milan and Rome, and served as Data\r\nProtection Officer for a leading Italian company. In addition, he has advised the Italian\r\nCommunications Authority and the Italian Ministry for Technological Innovation. His expertise\r\nspans data protection law, AI regulation, and media law. ","birthdate":"","country":null,"email":"","photourl":"https://c.connectedviews.com/assets/8203b65f-2d7f-4c6d-9ba4-91e426f7c013.PNG","name":"Mr. Marco Bassini","jobs":"","urls":""},{"id":227819,"bio":"Dr. Caroline B Ncube is a Full Professor at the Faculty of Law at the\r\nUniversity of Cape Town (UCT) where she holds the Department of\r\nScience, Technology and Innovation (DSTI) – National Research\r\nFoundation Research (NRF) South African Research Chair in\r\nIntellectual Property, Innovation and Development. She holds a NRF B2\r\nrating and is a Member of the Academy of Science of South Africa\r\n(ASSAf). In 2024, she received the South African Women in Science\r\nAwards (SAWISA) Distinguished Woman Researcher (Humanities and\r\nSocial Sciences) award and in 2023 received a UCT Excellence Award for Professors. She\r\nlectured on the WIPO-ARIPO-Africa University Masters Degree in IP (2012 – 2022) and is an\r\nAssociate Member of the Centre for Law, Technology and Society, University of Ottawa. She\r\nhas an extensive postgraduate research supervision record which includes 7 post-doctoral research fellows, 14 PhDs and 32 masters’ students who have graduated thus far. She is a\r\nmember of the African Continental Free Trade Area Trade and Industrial Development Advisory\r\nCouncil, African Union Scientific Technical Research Commission Taskforce on IP Protection in\r\nJoint Research and Collaboration During Outbreaks and of the African Policy, Research &\r\nAdvisory Group on Science, Technology and Innovation. She is a co-leader of the Open African\r\nInnovation Research (OpenAIR) partnership and participates in several other research projects.\r\nShe has published extensively on various aspects of Intellectual Property and Cyberlaw and is a\r\nco-editor of Artificial Intelligence and the Law in Africa (2023) LexisNexis. ","birthdate":"","country":null,"email":"","photourl":"https://c.connectedviews.com/assets/317612bc-3c36-476f-a6bd-71c5251df33b.PNG","name":"Ms. Caroline B Ncube","jobs":"","urls":""},{"id":227820,"bio":"Hon. Paolo Catallozzi is currently a judge at the Supreme Court of Italy,\r\nassigned to the first civil chamber, and ordinarily deals with cases in the\r\nfield of intellectual property and competition law, as well as banking,\r\ncorporate and bankruptcy law.\r\nPaolo has been appointed as legally qualified judge of Unified Patent\r\nCourt, assigned to the Paris central division. Previously he has been a\r\njudge at the Enterprise Court of First Instance of Rome, where he dealt\r\nwith intellectual property and competition law proceedings, as well as with other business law\r\ncases, and, earlier, at other district courts where he primary dealt with civil law proceedings; he\r\nalso had a stint at legislative offices of Italian ministries (Cabinet of ministers) where he\r\ncooperated in government activities. Paolo has been a member of Enlarged Board of Appeal of\r\nthe European Patent Office from 2021 to 2023. He regularly cooperates with Italian School of\r\nMagistrates, ERA, EJTN and European Commission on judicial training programs. Paolo has\r\nbeen a teacher at post graduated law schools, has several publications on intellectual property\r\nand enterprise law and has been a speaker at many conferences on those subjects, in Italy and\r\nabroad. He is a regular participant at judges’ forums organized by World Intellectual Property\r\nOffice (WIPO), European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) and European Patent\r\nOffice (EPO). He is a member of the Circle of European Trademark Judges and of the\r\nAssociation of European Competition Law Judges. ","birthdate":"","country":null,"email":"","photourl":"https://c.connectedviews.com/assets/6e442c56-0ad9-40e3-be75-fd2f9cae4232.PNG","name":"Mr. Paolo Catallozzi","jobs":"","urls":""},{"id":227821,"bio":"

Mr. Faber is the Founder, Managing Partner and General Counsel of\r\nLuminary Group LLC, the exclusive worldwide licensing representative of\r\nicons such as Babe Ruth, Jesse Owens, Vince Lombardi, Major Taylor and\r\nothers. Mr. Faber is also of counsel with McNeely Law LLP, and the\r\nprofessor of The Right of Publicity at Indiana University's McKinney School\r\nof Law. Mr. Faber has represented hundreds of living and deceased\r\nactors, athletes, and civil rights leaders through the companies he has\r\nbeen part of. Mr. Faber’s work has led to thousands of licensing partnerships including with\r\nworldwide brands and advertising agencies. Mr. Faber has been consulted by Billboard,\r\nThomson Reuters, Forbes, Variety, HBO’s Vice News, CNN, Jazz Times, Hollywood Reporter,\r\nAtlantic Monthly, and USA Today among others. He is cited on Legal Zoom’s Right of Publicity\r\nentry and quoted in the ABA’s book Right of Publicity: Analysis, Valuation, and the Law. Mr.\r\nFaber has been published in textbooks, business publications, law reviews, and newsletters\r\nsuch as The Licensing Journal, Total Licensing, License! magazine, The Licensing Desk Book,\r\nLicensing International publications, and the ABA’s Entertainment and Sports Journal. He has\r\nbeen a featured speaker at various state bar programs and the annual conferences of American\r\nIntellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA), California CPA Foundation’s Entertainment Industry Conference, Fordham University’s International Intellectual Property conference,\r\nLicensing International’s Licensing University, and AdWeek’s NYC conference.

In 2012,\r\nMr. Faber drafted and secured passage of the current Indiana Right of Publicity amended\r\nstatute. Mr. Faber was a speaker at Columbia University’s 2017 roundtable on New York’s\r\npending right of privacy statutory amendment, and he has joined SAG-AFTRA briefs in litigation\r\nand legislative efforts concerning the Right of Publicity. Mr. Faber frequently serves as an\r\nexpert in high-profile landmark litigation throughout the US involving celebrities. Mr. Faber was\r\ntasked with valuing the rights pertaining to the name and image of Prince in estate proceedings\r\nwith the US taxation authority. Mr. Faber’s expert valuation testimony in 2024 led to the largest\r\njury award ever for infringement of a deceased personality. Mr. Faber has been a Recording\r\nAcademy Grammy Awards Voting Member for almost three decades. He is the administrator of\r\nthe leading online Right of Publicity resource, www.RightOfPublicity.com. \r\n

","birthdate":"","country":null,"email":"","photourl":"https://c.connectedviews.com/assets/decfdbc4-251b-4fce-a76d-2e92918fe666.PNG","name":"Mr. Jonathan Faber","jobs":"","urls":""},{"id":227822,"bio":"Oliver Fairhust advises clients on contentious and non-contentious issues\r\nrelating to intellectual property and advertising. His clients are from a wide\r\nrange of industry sectors most commonly in the fashion, beauty,\r\ntechnology, advertising & marketing and media & entertainment sectors.\r\nOliver is part of the IPKat team as a GuestKat. ","birthdate":"","country":null,"email":"","photourl":"https://c.connectedviews.com/assets/178a5a81-d834-494b-b767-13dcb17038c3.PNG","name":"Mr. Oliver Fairhust","jobs":"","urls":""},{"id":227823,"bio":"Javier Berdaguer Mosca is an Adjunct Professor of Private Law at the\r\nFaculty of Law, University of the Republic (UDELAR), Uruguay, and a\r\npartner at Guyer & Regules, one of the country’s leading law firms. He is\r\ncurrently a doctoral candidate in Law at UDELAR, focusing his thesis on\r\nunjust enrichment in Uruguayan civil law, and holds a Master’s degree in\r\nIntellectual Property from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. With over 20\r\nyears of experience in civil law, intellectual property, and corporate law, Javier has authored\r\nseveral books and articles, including the award-winning \"Protección de la imagen en el derecho\r\ncivil de Uruguay.\" He is an active member of various academic and editorial boards and been recognized by international publications such as Chambers Latin America and The Legal\r\n500 for his work in intellectual property and corporate law. ","birthdate":"","country":null,"email":"","photourl":"https://c.connectedviews.com/assets/28648387-3abf-4c79-a46d-b85bea612efe.PNG","name":"Mr. Javier Berdaguer Mosca","jobs":"","urls":""},{"id":227825,"bio":"Yeoung CHANG is a Professor of Intellectual Property Law at Dokkyo University,\r\nwhere she has served since 2015, and also an Adjunct Professor of Law at\r\nWaseda University in Japan. She earned her B.A. in Law from Yonsei University\r\n(Korea) and her Ph.D. in Law from Waseda University (Japan), and was a Visiting\r\nScholar at the University of Trieste (Italy) from 2021 to 2022. Her research explores\r\nthe intersection of emerging technologies and intellectual property law across multiple\r\njurisdictions. She has published extensively and presented numerous talks on these subjects—\r\nas well as on more traditional intellectual property issues—and continues to contribute actively to\r\nscholarship in the field. ","birthdate":"","country":null,"email":"","photourl":"https://c.connectedviews.com/assets/0f6d8476-859e-4494-b6b0-8ac4a73e6299.PNG","name":"Ms. Chang Yeyoung","jobs":"","urls":""},{"id":227826,"bio":"Dr. Mathilde Pavis is a legal and policy adviser specialising in the\r\nprotection of people’s face, voice, and body in digital media. With over a\r\ndecade of experience, she helps business leaders, professional advisers,\r\nand policymakers to shape responsible industry standards for the use of\r\ndigital replicas and deepfakes. Mathilde served as expert consultant on AI\r\nfor the United Nations (UNESCO) and was Associate Professor in Law at\r\nthe Universities of Exeter and Reading. Her work has informed\r\ngovernment consultations for law reform on these issues, and she has appeared as expert\r\nwitness before the UK Parliament. She is a recognized voice in AI policy and ethics, frequently\r\nappearing in The Times, The Financial Times, and on BBC Radio 4 and Channel 4 News. Now,\r\nMathilde brings her expertise to her advisory firm Replique to equip leaders and advisers with\r\nthe knowledge they need to integrate AI and digital replicas responsibly across industries. ","birthdate":"","country":null,"email":"","photourl":"https://c.connectedviews.com/assets/f3213456-34e4-4105-9b41-b3f516587290.PNG","name":"Ms. Mathilde Pavis","jobs":"","urls":""},{"id":227827,"bio":null,"birthdate":"","country":null,"email":"","photourl":null,"name":"Ms. Diao Yunyun","jobs":"","urls":""},{"id":227828,"bio":"Nedim Malovic is Trademark/IP Counsel at ASSA ABLOY in Sweden and\r\nserves on the board of the Swedish Anti-Counterfeiting Group (SACG).\r\nHe has developed an extensive experience as IP commentator, having\r\ncontributed for several years to the well-known IPKat blog, where he\r\ncovered developments in copyright and trade mark law. Nedim has also\r\npublished extensively in leading journals, including the Journal of\r\nIntellectual Property Law and Practice (Oxford University Press). In\r\naddition, he has shared his expertise as a speaker, for example during the 2024 EUIPO Case\r\nLaw Conference, where he discussed case law on non-conventional EU trade marks.","birthdate":"","country":null,"email":"","photourl":"https://c.connectedviews.com/assets/72db6b7f-5791-4ff5-9bb4-f33990edcc15.PNG","name":"Mr. Nedim Malovic","jobs":"","urls":""},{"id":227837,"bio":null,"birthdate":"","country":null,"email":"","photourl":null,"name":"Ms. Emma Perot","jobs":"","urls":""}];