COLLABORATORS
Stewart Elgie
Professor Stewart Elgie specializes in environmental and natural resources law and policy, and serves as associate director of the University of Ottawa’s Institute of...
Dr. Sara Serradas O’Holleran
Dr. Sara Serradas O'Holleran, raised in Mozambique, brings a research foundation in life sciences, including microbiology in Portugal and at the Institut Pasteur, followed...
Romy Stander
Romy Stander serves as director and co-founder of the NGO Water for the Future, established in 2017. With a professional foundation in managing expansive...
Endi Ezengwa
Endi Ezengwa serves as Chief Executive Officer of Kiara College, Innoson Kiara Academy, Kiara De-Luke Academy, and Kiara Gambia—TVET institutions designed to connect African...
Melaku Geboye Desta
Dr. Melaku Geboye Desta serves as Coordinator of the African Trade Policy Centre (ATPC) within the Regional Integration and Trade Division (RITD) at the...
Dr. Martin-Joe Ezeudu
Dr. Ezeudu earned a PhD in international law and resource trade regulation from Osgoode Hall Law School at York University, an LLM in commercial...
Jetane (Weyers) Charsley
Jetane Charsley heads the National Intellectual Property Management Office (NIPMO), a dedicated unit under the Department of Science and Innovation (DSI). She directs NIPMO's...
Izael Da Silva
Professor Izael Pereira Da Silva is a renewable energy expert with more than two decades of experience in research and academic leadership. He serves...
Faith Majekolagbe
Dr. Opeyemi Olukotun is a law professor at the University of Alberta Faculty of Law and a scholar specializing in intellectual property (IP) law....
Elias Collette
Elias Collette serves as Director General of the Corporate Strategies and Services Branch at the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO). In this role, he...
Edward Kwakwa
Edward Kwakwa from Ghana serves as Assistant Director General, directing the Global Challenges and Partnerships Sector. This sector addresses matters involving traditional knowledge, cultural...
Dr. Bita Amani
Dr. Bita Amani serves as a Professor of Law at Queen’s University and affiliated faculty in the Cultural Studies Graduate Program. She co-directs Feminist...
Ahmed Zahran
Before launching KarmSolar in 2011, Ahmed Zahran worked at Shell in London and Tunis, and launched the carbon trading and renewable energy division at...
Dick Kawooya
Dick Kawooya’s research explores the role of intellectual property in fostering innovation, particularly the impact of IPRs on knowledge exchange between formal institutions (universities,...
Jake Okechukwu Effoduh
Jake Okechukwu Effoduh is a PhD candidate at the Osgoode Hall Law School in Canada. His doctorate research is on the Legitimization of Artificial...
Luci Abrahams
Luci Abrahams (PhD) is Director of the LINK (Learning, Information, Networking, Knowledge) Centre at Wits University, a public interest research and teaching unit that...
Ikechi Mgbeoji
Dr. Ikechi Mgbeoji is a Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University. In addition to his present position at York, Mgbeoji was sworn...
Helen Chuma-Okoro
Helen Chuma-Okoro, a Research Fellow at the the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (NIALS) in Lagos, has conducted research on a variety of...
Abdelhamid Benhmade
Abdelhamid Benhmade is a part-time professor at the University of Ottawa and a Queen Elizabeth Scholars – Advanced Scholars Fellow with Open AIR. His...
Victoria Schorr
Victoria Schorr specializes in project and relationship management in Sub-Saharan Africa with over two decades of experience in analyzing politics, economics, trade, and business...
Isaac Rutenberg
Isaac Michael Rutenberg is a practicing intellectual property (IP) lawyer and Associate Professor of ICT Policy and Innovation. As Advisor to the CEO of...
