Presenters
Moderators, presenters, discussants and note takers at USERrights 2026, Geneva, 30 September to 2 October 2026. Type a name, institution or topic to filter, or jump to a letter. Listed alphabetically by surname.
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Bita Amani
Dr. Bita Amani is a Professor of Law at Queen’s University and is affiliated faculty with the Cultural Studies Graduate Program. She is Co-Director of Feminist Legal Studies Queen’s. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts from York University (with Distinction) in Sociology, her Bachelor of Laws from Osgoode Hall Law School, and received her Doctor of Juridical Science from the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, with doctoral fellowships from SSHRC and the Centre for Innovation Law and Policy. She has been a consultant to, and served briefly as a legislative drafter for, the Ministry of the Attorney General (Ontario), Office of the Legislative Counsel (37th Legislative Session, 2001). She occasionally teaches as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Osgoode Hall Law School, in the Part-Time Professional Development Program (LLM) and is called to the Bar of Ontario (2000).
Clark Asay
Professor Clark Asay joined the BYU Law faculty in June 2014. Before coming to BYU, Professor Asay was a Visiting Assistant Professor and Shughart Scholar at Penn State’s Dickinson School of Law from 2012-2014. Prior to entering legal academia, Professor Asay worked at Amazon’s Lab126 and supported the Kindle, Kindle Fire, and Amazon Fire teams. Professor Asay also worked at the law firm of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where he practiced in the field of technology transactions and intellectual property licensing. Professor Asay is a graduate of Stanford Law School, where he was an Executive Editor for the Stanford Law Review. Professor Asay also earned an M.Phil from the University of Cambridge and a BA, summa cum laude, from Brigham Young University.
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Jonathan Band
Jonathan Band is an attorney in Washington DC specializing in intellectual property policy. He served as an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center for over 20 years, and currently is a senior policy fellow with the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property at the American University Washington College of Law.
Klaus D. Beiter
Klaus D. Beiter, from Namibia, holds law degrees from the University of South Africa and a doctorate in international human rights law from Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich. He is admitted as a Legal Practitioner of the High Court of Namibia. He spent seven years as a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, developing a research interest in copyright, patents, and human rights, before taking up a two-year Marie Curie fellowship at the University of Lincoln on academic freedom. His work spans the right to education, the right to science, academic freedom, intellectual property law, and law and development. His 2006 book on the right to education in international law has become a standard work. He has been a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), E.U. Marie Curie, and Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS) Fellow. He is a member of the Namibian government’s Team of International Law Experts. As such, he is currently involved in the South Africa v. Israel case before the ICJ. He is an ad hoc consultant to UNESCO and the U.N. Human Rights Council, a member of the Consortium for Human Rights Beyond Borders, Heidelberg, an Ambassador to the Observatory Magna Charta Universitatum, Bologna, on the Governing Board of the Africa Coalition for Academic Freedom, Accra, and an adviser to the Right to Education Initiative, London. He is a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf). ASSAf just selected him to prepare a Consensus Study on “Safeguarding Academic Freedom and the Human Right to Science in South Africa,” for presentation to the Minister. He has publicly commented on copyright reform, including before Parliament.
Sara Benson
Sara R Benson is the copyright librarian and an associate professor in the Library at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and an affiliated associate professor with the Center for Global Studies, European Union Center, and School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois. She currently serves as head of the IFLA delegation to the World Intellectual Property Organization. She holds a Juris Doctor from the University of Houston Law Center, a Master of Laws from the School of Law at Berkeley, and a Master’s in Library and Information Science from the School of Information Science at the University of Illinois. Prior to joining the library, Sara was a lecturer at the University of Illinois College of Law for 10 years. Sara is the best-selling editor of Copyright Conversations: Rights Literacy in a Digital World (Association of College and Research Libraries, 2019) and author of Compact Copyright: Quick Answers to Common Questions (ALA Editions, 2021).
Maja Bogataj Jančič
Dr Maja Bogataj Jančič is the founder and head of the Intellectual Property Institute (IPI) in Ljubljana, Slovenia, a research, training and consulting institution with permanent observer status at WIPO, and founder and head of the Open Data and Intellectual Property Institute (ODIPI). A copyright expert, her recent work focuses on open science, open data, data governance and artificial intelligence, and on the legal framework of copyright and data for research. She is the National Coordinator for Slovenia and Regional Coordinator for the six Western Balkan countries of the Knowledge Rights 21 project. Maja graduated from the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana and holds master’s degrees from Ljubljana (Economics), Harvard Law School and the Facoltà di Giurisprudenza di Torino (Intellectual Property), and a PhD from the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana on copyright in the digital age.
Carolina Botero
Is a Colombian lawyer with more than 20 years of experience in the defense of human rights in digital environments. She has been recognized with the EFF 2024 award for her work in Latin America. She holds two master's degrees in law (VUB and UAB) and directed the Karisma Foundation for a decade. She was part of UNESCO’s advisory committee of experts for the Open Science Recommendation. She is a contributor to media outlets such as El Espectador, La Silla Vacía and Razón Pública. She participates in international academic and consultative spaces such as the Board of Kairsma, CELE or Cetic.BR and currently advises organizations such as AlSur and PIJIP.
Delia Browne
Delia Browne is a copyright lawyer and policy advocate who leads the National Copyright Unit (NCU), providing specialist copyright advice to Australian schools and TAFE institutes with a focus on the digital teaching environment. A long-time member of the Creative Commons Global Network, she is the Education Sector Lead of Creative Commons Australia, has attended every CC Global Summit since 2007, and helped author CC’s Global Network Strategy. She has represented Creative Commons at the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights and works to advance the WIPO limitations and exceptions agenda, particularly for education. Delia is a co-founder and President of Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU), a board director of the Australian Digital Alliance, and a member of the editorial board of the Media and Arts Law Review. She has taught intellectual property at the University of New South Wales, Griffith University and the University of Auckland.
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Ben Cashdan
Ben Cashdan is an economist and television producer in South Africa. He was an economic advisor in the South African Presidency under President Nelson Mandela, focusing on capacity building and local economic development. Since 2000 Ben has served as executive producer of a number of television series on democracy and development for global broadcasters. In 2015 Ben co-founded ReCreate South Africa, a coalition of creators and users of copyrighted material in South Africa, working together for fair and balanced copyright reform and access to knowledge.
Margaret Chon
Margaret Chon is the Faculty Director of the Technology, Innovation Law, and Ethics (TILE) Institute and the Donald and Lynda Horowitz Endowed Chair for the Pursuit of Justice at Seattle University School of Law, where she teaches intellectual property. Her work focuses on the role of global intellectual property systems in promoting human flourishing and sustainable development. A graduate of the University of Michigan (M.H.S.A. and J.D.) and Cornell University (A.B.), she is an elected member of the American Law Institute and the American Bar Foundation. She clerked for Judges A. Leon Higginbotham and Dolores J. Sloviter of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and practised intellectual property law in Philadelphia. She holds a 2026 Bellagio Center Residency from the Rockefeller Foundation and a Jean Monnet Fellowship from NYU School of Law for her IP research, and has also taught and published on race and law, including a co-authored book on the Japanese American incarceration and reparations.
Luca Cominassi
Luca Cominassi is an Attorney-at-Law specializing in Emerging Technologies and a Public AI Fellow at Metagov. He is the co-founder of Ultrafab, an Internet of Things (IoT) startup powered by AI. He is the co-founder of Parti Collective, a network practicing knowledge sharing and systemic thinking for a radically just and regenerative society. He holds a Master's Degree in IT Law and Legal Informatics from Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna (CIRSFID) and a Law Degree from the University of Parma.
Zachary Cooper
Zachary Cooper is a legal scholar & lecturer, whose current research programme explores the techno-regulatory incoherence of applying copyright to emerging forms of Generative AI-enabled media, with an eye to developing new frameworks for creative ownership for the 21st Century. His interdisciplinary research programme has led to dozens of speaking invitations worldwide in a wide array of settings, including the International Conference of Machine Learning in Vienna, the IP Scholars Conference in Berkeley, the Global Copyright Expert Network in Geneva, the UNESCO AI & Human Rights Conference in Ljubljana, re:publica in Berlin, and at the Summit for the ICC Arrest Warrants Against Israeli & Hamas Leadership in The Hague. He teaches the “The Law and Ethics of Artificial Intelligence & Robots” course at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and has guest lectured worldwide.
Guillermo Rodrigo Corredor
Guillermo Rodrigo Corredor is a lawyer specialising in Intellectual Property, Copyright, and New Technologies (Universidad Externado de Colombia), with a specialisation in Public Management and Administrative Institutions (Universidad de los Andes) and a Master's in International Economic Law from the University of Bern (World Trade Institute). He is currently a Visiting Researcher at the Centre de Sciences Humaines in New Delhi and a researcher and lecturer in the Department of Economic Law at Universidad Externado de Colombia. He has also worked as a consultant on intellectual property rights management and innovation for projects in the Andean region and the European Union.
Carys Craig
Carys Craig is a Professor of Law at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, in Toronto, Canada. She is the Academic Director of the Osgoode Professional Development LLM Program in Intellectual Property Law, Director of IP Osgoode (Osgoode’s Intellectual Property Law & Technology Program), and recently served as Osgoode’s Associate Dean (Research & Institutional Relations).
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Teshager Dagne
Associate Professor, Ontario Research Chair in Governing Artificial Intelligence. Member of Faculty of Graduate Studies, Masters of Public Policy, Administration and Law Program (MPPAL); Graduate Program in Law, Osgoode Hall Law; Graduate Program in Science and Technology Studies. He has previously taught at Thompson Rivers University Faculty of Law and the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University, where he earned his Doctoral degree and was a Schulich Research Fellow.
Naama Daniel
Naama Daniel is a research fellow at the Federmann Cyber Security Research Center – Cyber Law Program, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She has been working in the Israeli public sector since 2010, specialising in IP, technology, and the intersection of IP and private international law. Naama managed numerous policy and legislation projects, such as the enactment of the new Israeli Designs Law of 2017, and took part in the negotiations of international instruments on IP, emerging technologies and private international law, in various international forums. Naama is a guest lecturer and an invited speaker at various forums and academic courses, and presented her academic work at international conferences. She holds an LL.B (magna cum laude) and an LL.M (summa cum laude) from Tel Aviv University.
Patricia Diaz
Patricia Diaz is a lawyer specialising in digital rights, with experience in public policy innovation and a commitment to digital justice in Latin America and Uruguay. She is currently the president of Data Uruguay and a professor at the University of the Republic (UdelaR). Her research focuses on privacy and surveillance, freedom of expression online, intellectual property, Open Data, and Open Science.
Séverine Dusollier
Séverine Dusollier is Professor of Intellectual Property at Sciences Po (Paris), holds a Senior Chair at the Institut Universitaire de France, and heads the Master in Innovation Law. She is a qualified member of the CSPLA (French Copyright Council), a founding member of the European Copyright Society and a member of ATRIP. From 2014 to 2019 she held an ERC research grant on commons and inclusivity in property. Her research interests include copyright in digital environment and in AI (unsurprisingly), the concept of authorship, contractual protection of authors and performers, exceptions and limitations, commons and property, and the public domain. From 2006 to 2014 she was Professor at the University of Namur and Director of its CRIDS research centre. She has carried out research for international and EU institutions and has held research fellowships at UCL, Berkeley, the European University Institute, Columbia, NYU and Cambridge.
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Pierre El Khoury
Dr Pierre El Khoury is Dean of the Faculty of Law and Political Science and Director of its Research Center at Notre Dame University-Louaize, Lebanon, as well as Director of the Beirut Bar Institute. A Lebanese practicing lawyer with more than twenty-five years’ experience, he specializes in copyright, related rights, artificial intelligence, ICT law, creative industries, collective management, traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions. Since 2010, he has undertaken technical-assistance, policy and training assignments for WIPO as an expert and independent consultant and serves as a WIPO Academy tutor. His doctoral research examined copyright limitations and exceptions, and his publications address AI, copyright, unfair competition and innovation in the Arab region.
Nino Eloshvili
Nino Eloshvili is an intellectual property lawyer with over 15 years of professional experience, as well as researcher and lecturer specializing in intellectual property law, with a particular focus on copyright, digital technologies, artificial intelligence, and emerging challenges in the digital economy. She delivers lectures on IP Law at the Georgian Institute of Public Affairs and Business Law at the Business and Technology University. Nino is pursuing a PhD at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, focusing her research on Intellectual Property Law in Relation to AI-Generated Works. She was a short-term visiting researcher at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, and subsequently conducted research at Charles University. Nino has been actively engaged in international conferences and programs. She also participated in the WIPO-WTO Colloquium for Teachers of Intellectual Property in 2022 and the IP Researchers Europe (IPRE) Conference in Geneva in 2025. She also completed the Law of the Digital Economy (LDE) certificate programme at the Institute for Information, Telecommunications and Media Law (ITM), University of Münster, in 2025. Her primary research interests include intellectual property law, technological advancements, and the evolving interplay between technology and intellectual property law.
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Sean Flynn
Professor Flynn researches and teaches on the intersection of intellectual property, international law, and human rights. Professor Flynn designs and manages a wide variety of research and advocacy projects that promote the public interest in intellectual property and information law. Professor Flynn Chairs the Global Expert Network on Copyright User Rights and is a founding member of the Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest. He is Editor in Chief of Infojustice.org, a leading public interest law and policy blog. He is a special faculty appointment at American University Washington College of Law, visiting Scholar at the University of Amsterdam’s Institute for Information Law (IViR), and Senior Research Associate at the University of Cape Town’s Intellectual Property Unit.
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Aman Gebru
Professor Aman Gebru examines issues at the intersection of intellectual property, innovation, branding, and creative expression, including frameworks for communal authorship, cultural appropriation, and truthfulness in trademarks. His works appear (or are forthcoming) in Arizona State Law Journal, American University Law Review, University of Richmond Law Review, Denver Law Review, Cardozo Arts and Entertainment Law Journal, and North Carolina Journal of Law and Technology, among others.
Michael Geist
Dr Michael Geist is a law professor at the University of Ottawa, where he holds the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law and is a member of the Centre for Law, Technology and Society. He holds an LL.B. from Osgoode Hall Law School, LL.M. degrees from Cambridge University and Columbia Law School, and a J.S.D. from Columbia Law School. He serves on many boards, including Internet Archive Canada and the EFF Advisory Board. He was appointed to the Order of Ontario in 2018 and his awards include the Canadian Journalists for Freedom of Expression Vox Libera Award, the Kroeger Award for Policy Leadership, the Public Knowledge IP3 Award, the Ontario Library Association’s Les Fowlie Award for Intellectual Freedom, the EFF Pioneer Award, and the CANARIE IWAY Public Leadership Award for his contribution to the development of the Internet in Canada.
Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan
Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan is Professor of Law at the University of Cambridge, Co-Director of the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL), a Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, and Director of Studies and Fellow at King’s College. His research, teaching and expert advice focus on international and European intellectual property protection and development, world trade and investment law, and the interfaces between legal regimes and private orders in international law. He has extensive experience as a legal expert for WIPO and other international organisations, tailoring IP law and policy to domestic economic, social and technological conditions, and advises NGOs and developing- and developed-country governments. He sits on the editorial board of the World Trade Institute Advanced Studies Series and co-founded the international IP network of the Society of International Economic Law.
Aditya Gupta
Aditya Gupta is the Arcadia Fellow at the Centre on Knowledge Governance at the Geneva Graduate Institute and a Graduate Fellow with the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property (2025-2026). LL.M. in Intellectual Property and Technology at American University Washington College of Law. Previously, he was a Research Fellow at Publ ic.Resource.Org (2023-2025) and a Research Associate at IIM Ahmedabad (2020-2023). He holds a B.A. LL.B. from NLU Ranchi.
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Hanani Hlomani
Hanani Hlomani is a technology law strategist and policy advisor with more than 5 years of experience at the intersection of law, technology, and digital rights. His work spans academia, intergovernmental organisations, and think tanks, with a focus on digital policy in Africa and beyond. He specialises in AI and data governance, intellectual property, and digital regulation, with a particular interest in making complex tech issues easier to understand and act on through inclusive, rights-based approaches. He has published widely, secured research funding, and contributed to shaping regional and continental policy frameworks. He cares most about advancing ethical and inclusive technology governance that delivers real-world impact and creates space for more equitable futures.
Yuanqiong Hu
YuanQiong Hu is a senior law and policy expert with over 15 years of experience leading policy and legal research and advocacy for international and non-profit organizations, alongside work in academic research and teaching in higher education and in legal practice. Her thematic expertise spans public international law, public health policy, international human rights law, intellectual property law, technology transfer policy, and environmental and climate law and justice.
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Vitor Ido
Assistant Professor at the Department of Commercial Law, University of São Paulo Faculty of Law, since 2024. He holds a PhD (2021), an LL.M. (2017) and an LL.B. (2014) from the same institution, as well as a BA in Social Sciences from FFLCH/USP (2017). He is part of the coordination team of the Triangular International Partnership Programme in Higher Education (PITES), run jointly with Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, Université Lumière Lyon 2 and Université Jean Monnet Saint-Étienne.
Susan Isiko Štrba
Dr. Susan Isiko Štrba is currently Counsel and Senior Research Fellow at the Centre on Knowledge Governance at the Graduate Institute. She provides legal and technical assistance to African Member States for negotiations, especially relating to intellectual property. She also provides tailored research on knowledge governance, with special focus on Africa. She combines teaching and research with providing policy and legislative advice and technical training to governments, intergovernmental organisations and civil society.
Elena Izyumenko
Assistant Professor of Intellectual Property (IP) Law at the University of Amsterdam's Institute for Information Law (IViR). Research explores how copyright and trademark laws in Europe (and beyond) intersect with the public interest and with human and fundamental rights. Current topics include copyright and AI regulation, creator remuneration from streaming, copyright metadata and cultural diversity, environmental sustainability in IP protection, fashion and IP, gender biases in IP law, and filter bubbles created by online behavioural advertising. Previously worked as a case-processing lawyer at the European Court of Human Rights (Council of Europe) and as a researcher in IP law at the University of Strasbourg's Centre for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI). Holds an award-winning Ph.D. in IP Law from Strasbourg University (CEIPI, France) and an LL.M. in Human Rights Law and IP Law from Lund University (Sweden). Also a Certified Tutor for the Council of Europe's Human Rights Education Programme and a Senior Member of the Netherlands Network for Human Rights Research.
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Meredith Jacob
Meredith Jacob is the Acting Director of the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property at American University Washington College of Law. Currently her work includes research and advocacy focused on: open educational resources, open access to federally funded research, and copyright law, specifically focusing on fair use. She also serves as the Public Lead for Creative Commons USA. Her other work has included international intellectual property and the public interest, patent pledges (including the Open COVID Pledge and the Low Carbon Patent Pledge), and prescription data privacy policy.
Heather Joseph
As SPARC’s Executive Director since 2005, Heather has focused the organization’s efforts on sharing knowledge. She leads SPARC’s strategic work, which has resulted in a fundamental shift in public policy towards open knowledge sharing, including the establishment of the landmark White House Memorandum requiring open access to all U.S. federally funded research outputs in 2023. She has provided guidance and advice to both public and private funders through her service on national boards and committees ranging from the U.S. Department of Commerce Data Advisory Council to the National Institute of Standards Research Data Framework Committee and has worked to incentivize knowledge sharing by spearheading the establishment of the U.S. National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine’s Roundtable an Aligning Incentives to Support Open Science.
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Eddan Katz
For 25 years, this work has focused on one question: as technology remakes society, who gets access to knowledge, and who is accountable when the answer is wrong? It has been pursued as an academic and scholar-activist, as a civil society advocate at the UN and WIPO, inside an international multi-stakeholder body, at Responsible AI startups, and at Meta, across Reality Labs and AI Policy. Currently Head of Policy & Government Affairs at Encypher, helps build Provenance Public Infrastructure. Also a Research Fellow at LexLab at UC Law SF, researching and teaching AI liability and writing on provenance and the political economy of AI governance. From helping launch the Access to Knowledge movement at Yale to current provenance work, the guiding view is that openness and accountability are two sides of the same coin.
Paul Keller
Paul Keller is Director of Policy at Open Future, with more than 20 years of experience as a media activist, open policy advocate and systems architect working to improve access to knowledge and culture. A political scientist by training, he is a research fellow at the Institute for Information Law of the University of Amsterdam, a board member of Public Spaces, and sits on the advisory boards of the Glushko and Samuelson Information Law and Policy Lab and the Europeana Foundation. He was a founding member of the COMMUNIA association for the Public Domain in 2009 and remains its President, founded Creative Commons Netherlands in 2005 and led it until 2018, and from 2009 to 2015 was one of the architects of the Europeana Licensing Framework, which set standards for large-scale digital cultural heritage aggregation.
Sevinchbeka Khazratkulova
Sevinchbeka Khazratkulova is a Researcher at Tashkent State University of Law (TSUL), where she conducts legal research on intellectual property, artificial intelligence, digital law, and emerging technologies. Her work includes publishing scholarly articles, analysing legislative developments and comparative legal frameworks, and contributing to policy-oriented research through policy briefs and evidence-based recommendations. She holds an LL.M. in Intellectual Property Law from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where she received an Honor Letter from the College of Law for strong academic performance, and a Bachelor of Laws in Civil and Business Law from Tashkent State University of Law. She also completed Harvard Law School's CopyrightX program in 2025.
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Alice De Perdigão Lana
Ph.D. candidate in Public Policy at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil, with a research stay at the University of St. Gallen (HSG), Switzerland. Holds a master’s and bachelor’s degree in Law from the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR). Member of the coordination team at Creative Commons Brazil. Researcher at the Brazilian Institute of Copyright (IBDAutoral) and at the Study Group on Copyright and Industrial Property Rights (GEDAI/UFPR). Deputy Secretary of the Copyright Law Observatory Institute (IODA). Youth Ambassador for the Internet Society (ISOC). Attorney at De Paula Kraft. Legal consultant.
James Love
James Love is Director of Knowledge Ecology International. His training is in economics and finance, and work focuses on the production, management and access to knowledge resources, as well as aspects of competition policy. The current focus is on the financing of research and development, intellectual property rights, prices for and access to new drugs, vaccines and other medical technologies, as well as related topics for other knowledge goods, including data, software, other information protected by copyright or related rights, and proposals to expand the production of knowledge as a public good. James Love holds a Masters of Public Administration from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and a Masters in Public Affairs from Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
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Thomas Margoni
Prof. Dr. Thomas Margoni is Research Professor of Intellectual Property Law at the Faculty of Law and Criminology, KU Leuven, a member of the Board of Directors of the Centre for IT and IP Law (CiTiP) and director of its IP and IT Law programme. His research concentrates on the relationship between law and technology, with a focus on comparative and European copyright law. He works as an expert and author of commissioned studies for EU and international institutions, including the European Commission, the EU AI Office, the European Parliament, the CJEU, the OECD, WIPO, the EUIPO, the Japanese Patent Office and the Korean Copyright Commission. He sits on the editorial boards of JIPITEC, the Copyright Evidence Wiki and the CREATe working paper series, holds research positions at CREATe and IViR, coordinates the CopyrightX:CiTiP course developed with Harvard Law School, and is a member of the Steering Committee of the Global Expert Network on Copyright User Rights, as well as of ALAI, ATRIP, the European Copyright Society, ELI and EPIP.
Cosmas Babilas Masimo
Lecturer at the University of Dodoma, specializing in ICT and IP law at the intersection of technology, justice, and innovation. Champions robust copyright protection while advocating for fair exceptions that support research, education, and access to knowledge. With a background in litigation and digital policy, is committed to shaping a secure, inclusive, and future-ready legal landscape.
Anna Mazgal
Anna Mazgal is the Executive Director at Wikimedia Europe. She works on freedom of expression, access to information online as well as platform liability and has specialised in digital rights and advocacy. She previously worked as Senior EU Policy Advisor at Wikimedia Germany and the Centrum Cyfrowe as Director for Strategy and Development.
Neha Mishra
Neha Mishra is Assistant Professor in the International Law Department of the Geneva Graduate Institute. Her research sits at the intersection of international economic law and digital governance, with a focus on digital trade, global data governance and the regulation of emerging technologies, including the governance of artificial intelligence and digital markets, cybersecurity, regulatory interoperability, and the implications of digital transformation for developing economies. She serves on the editorial boards of the Leiden Journal of International Law, the Journal of International Economic Law and the Journal of World Investment and Trade, is Co-Chair of the American Society of International Law’s International Law and Technology Interest Group, and is a Senior Research Affiliate at the Centre for Digital Law, Singapore Management University. Qualified as a lawyer in the UK and India, she practised law in London and India and worked on technology, trade and regulatory policy at Microsoft and eBay in Singapore.
Viviana Munoz
Coordinator, Health, Intellectual Property and Biodiversity Programme (HIPB), South Centre. Dr. Muñoz-Tellez is a muti-disciplinary policy expert in the area of public health and intellectual property and innovation. She holds a Masters in Development Management from the London School of Economics and a PhD in management of technology from EPFL, Lausanne.
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Kim Nayyer
Kim Nayyer is Associate Dean and Edward Cornell Law Librarian at Cornell Law School, where she oversees the Law Library and its services, and a Professor of the Practice with extensive experience teaching legal writing and legal research. She teaches a seminar in comparative copyright, leads a colloquium on the critical evaluation of legal information, teaches legal research for the MSLS degree, and supervises reading, writing and experiential learning courses for JD and LLM students. Her research interests include critical information literacy in machine-manipulated environments; disinformation, digital citizenship and data ownership; the ethics of big data and artificial intelligence; comparative copyright and Indigenous knowledge protection; copyright and licensing issues affecting libraries and access to legal information; and inclusion, equity and decolonisation in legal education, libraries and professional leadership.
Teresa Nobre
Teresa Nobre is the Legal Director of COMMUNIA. She was involved in the EU legislative process leading to the adoption of the 2019 EU Copyright Directive and coordinated COMMUNIA’s advocacy efforts on its implementation across the Union. More recently, her work has focused on the intersection of copyright, data and artificial intelligence, including the EU AI Act, the EU AI Code of Practice, the Data Omnibus, and the EU’s latest legislative initiative aimed at creating a better copyright environment for innovation. She also represents COMMUNIA at WIPO. Before joining COMMUNIA, Teresa worked as a copyright lawyer and served as the legal lead for Creative Commons Portugal. She holds a law degree from the University of Lisbon and an LL.M. in Intellectual Property Law from MIPLC.
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Ceslause Ogbonnaya
Experienced multilingual Project Manager with expertise in project and program management, leading and developing a team, multi-stakeholder management, people management, change management and data analysis. Owning all stages of the lifecycle to deliver projects that exceed expectations on time and on budget. Spearheaded projects that facilitated growth of Africa related contents on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, using $193,905.01 worth of grant. Proven record of success in leveraging data analysis to drive project growth and delivery through developing dynamic project management lifecycle that leverages on the strengths of the project team for swift execution and completion. Led multicultural teams to deliver diverse projects including Education, I.T, Finance and GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums).
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Argyri Panezi
Dr. Panezi joined University of New Brunswick Faculty of Law in 2023, after being awarded the Canada Research Chair in Digital Information Law and Policy (Tier 2). At UNB Law she directs the recently established Legal Innovation Laboratory. She holds a Ph.D. from the European University Institute. She is an affiliated member of the Digital Civil Society Lab at Stanford University, where she conducted post-doctoral work, at the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence for Law and Automation (Lawtomation) at IE Law School where she taught since 2019, and recently at the Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity (CIC) at the University of New Brunswick.
Apoorv Pragya
Assistant Professor at Chanakya National Law University, Patna. She is pursuing her Ph.D. from NALSAR University of Law. In the Doctoral Student’s Presentation at the 41st ATRIP Congress, she was awarded the second prize for the best and most succinct presentation. She has also won the Best Paper Award at the Master’s Conference on Intellectual Property (IP and Digital Technologies: Law, Policy and Society), organized by the Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law, IIT Kharagpur in March, 2022. Her academic interest lies in Intellectual property laws, Competition law, Aviation law and Public International Law. Her research interests include, democratization of knowledge, open access, critical legal theory, generative AI and its use in Education.
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Andreas Reis
Senior Ethics Officer, World Health Organization , Switzerland Andreas Alois Reis (MD, MSc) is the Co-Lead of the Global Health Ethics Team in the Department of Innovation, Evidence and Research at WHO in Geneva, Switzerland. After medical studies and practice in internal medicine in Germany, France and Chile, he pursued studies in health economics and obtained a post-graduate degree in biomedical ethics. His main area of work is public health ethics with focus on ethics and infectious diseases. He has lectured and organized trainings for WHO in more than 40 countries, has published widely and is the co-editor of three books on bioethics and public health ethics.
Allan Rocha De Souza
President and Scientific Director of the Brazilian Copyright Institute (IBDAutoral). Researcher at the Global Expert Network on Copyright User Rights (Right to Research Project). Professor and researcher on the Law programme at ITR/UFRRJ; on the specialization programme in Intellectual Property at PUC-Rio; and on the Master's and PhD programme in Public Policies, Strategies and Development (PPED/IE/UFRJ). Attorney and legal consultant.
Chuck Roslof
Oversees the Wikimedia trademark portfolio, including trademark registration, enforcement, and licensing. Works with the General Counsel/Secretary to support the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees and provides legal advice and support to Wikimedia Foundation staff working on grantmaking, fundraising, and the Wikimedia affiliate system. Serves as Secretary of the Wikimedia Endowment and occasionally works on copyright, licensing, and public policy issues.
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Rachael Samberg
Rachael Samberg is the founder and director of the Scholarly Communication & Information Policy office at UC Berkeley. She develops and oversees the strategic direction of a robust academic program that helps scholars navigate the shifting publishing, intellectual property, and information policy landscapes in ways that promote research dissemination, accessibility, and impact.
Arul George Scaria
Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Centre for IP Research and Advocacy at the National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bengaluru. He is also an affiliate faculty of the CopyrightX programme of Harvard Law School. He pursued his doctoral studies at the International Max Planck Research School for Competition and Innovation (IMPRS-CI) and post-doctoral research at the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL), Belgium. He was the first academician to be appointed as an Independent Expert by the IP Division of the Delhi High Court and he was also a court appointed Amicus Curiae in ANI v. OpenAI, the first GenAI related copyright litigation in India.
Luca Schirru
Research Director at the Geneva Centre on Knowledge Governance (CKG), Governance and Regulation Specialist at the SAVITS Project (IBICT), and Research Fellow at the Centre for IT & IP Law (CiTiP – KU Leuven). Academic Coordinator of the Global Expert Network on Copyright User Rights. Lawyer and legal consultant in Intellectual Property. Teaches at several Brazilian universities, including the Pontifical Catholic Universities of Minas Gerais, Paraná and Rio de Janeiro, and CEPED/UERJ. Held postdoctoral positions at the National Institute of Citizen Science (INCC/IBICT, 2024-2026) and at CiTiP – KU Leuven (2022–2024).
Walter Scholger
Walter Scholger is Department Manager at the Department of Digital Humanities. His tasks mainly include administrative tasks in the context of the university as well as the management of research projects and third-party funded projects. He represents the Department and the university in national and international working groups, professional associations and research infrastructure projects on the topics of research data management, digital publication, curriculum development, open science as well as legal and ethical aspects of digital research. In his teaching activities in the Master's degree program "Digital Humanities", he focuses on the core topics of copyright, licensing and data protection in the context of digital science and participates in cooperation projects with internal and external university partners.
Tobias Schonwetter
Dr Tobias Schonwetter is an Associate Professor at the University of Cape Town where he directs the IP Unit and the iNtaka Centre for Law & Technology. He specialises in and teaches intellectual property and cyberlaw, particularly the relationship between intellectual property, innovation and development. Tobias is an Associate Member of the Centre of Law, Technology and Society at the University of Ottawa. He regularly advises government entities in South Africa and is part of ASSAf’s POPIA compliance framework committee as well as NACI’s AI Strategy team (Trust and Regulation). Tobias has co-led numerous research projects in the area of IP and IT law, including the Open AIR project. He was a Senior Manager at PwC, a Global Law Professor at KU Leuven and a Regional Coordinator for Creative Commons.
Martin Senftleben
Martin Senftleben is Professor of Intellectual Property Law and Director of the Institute for Information Law (IViR) at the Amsterdam Law School. His work focuses on reconciling private intellectual property rights with competing social, cultural and economic public interests. Current research topics include institutionalised algorithmic copyright enforcement in the EU, the interplay between robot creativity and human literary and artistic production, the preservation of the public domain of cultural expressions, and the impact of targeted advertising on market economies. He is a member of the Copyright Advisory Committee of the Dutch State and has advised WIPO on trademark and copyright projects. He is President of the European Copyright Society and of the Trademark Law Institute, and a member of the executive committees of ALAI and ATRIP. He lectures as a guest at CEIPI Strasbourg, the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center, and the Universities of Catania and Krakow.
Kacper Szkalej
Kacper Szkalej is an MSCA Researcher in AI and IP Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Bergen. His research centres primarily on copyright law and covers a wide array of themes such as licensing, technological protection, remuneration schemes, public interest exploitation, the right to research, machine learning and genAI, open access, enforcement and fundamental rights. Before joining UiB he held academic positions at the IViR, University of Amsterdam, Stockholm University and Lund University, and worked at the cross-disciplinary research centre Digital Futures. He holds a PhD in copyright law from Uppsala University.
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María Vásquez Callo-Müller
María Vásquez Callo-Müller is a post-doctoral researcher on the European Research Council project Trade Law for the Data-Driven Economy (Trade Law 4.0), led by Prof. Dr. Mira Burri, and an experienced researcher and consultant on digital trade. She was a visiting doctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, regularly consults for the APEC Policy Support Unit, and has advised UNESCAP on digital trade policy. María holds an LLM in Intellectual Property Law from the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center and a Master of Advanced Studies in International Law and Economics from the World Trade Institute. She qualified as an attorney at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and was a visiting student in international relations at Peking University.
Lokesh Vyas
Lokesh Vyas holds a law degree from India and an LLM from American University Washington College of Law, where he was an Arcadia Fellow and Arodhum Scholar, and is pursuing a PhD in Law at Sciences Po, Paris, on the genealogy of international copyright discourse under Professors Séverine Dusollier and Alain Pottage. He was a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge with Professors Lionel Bently and Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan, a research fellow on American University’s Arcadia-funded project “Right to Research in International Copyright Law”, and a researcher at Knowledge Ecology International in Washington, DC. Besides publishing in international journals, he writes regularly on intellectual property, innovation, media and entertainment for SpicyIP and IPRMENTLAW and co-runs the blog IP Musings. His work is driven by an interest in how access to information shapes participation in social and political life.
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Nancy E. Weiss
Nancy E. Weiss is a Senior Policy Fellow in the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property at American University’s Washington College of Law and an Adjunct Professor and Supervisor in WCL’s Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic. She has held senior roles in the public and private sectors in information policy, cultural expression and engagement, and federal legal practice, including as the first General Counsel of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, Senior Advisor for IP and Innovation at the White House, and counsel to the U.S. Arts and Artifacts Indemnity Program. Most recently she was the Fifth Kaminstein Scholar in Residence at the United States Copyright Office, focusing on Indigenous cultural expression. Nancy has been a key drafter and negotiator of international agreements and United Nations frameworks on Internet governance and digital access and inclusion, and has helped craft domestic laws and strategies in these areas.
Wend Wendland
Wend knows about intellectual property law and policy as they relate to biodiversity, cultural heritage, cultural diversity, agriculture, health, Indigenous Peoples and other global issues. He’s especially interested in multilateralism, global governance and leadership. He was for many years a Director of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva and Secretary of WIPO’s Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property, Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folkore (the IGC). Before joining WIPO, he practised as an intellectual property, media and entertainment lawyer in a large South African law firm, Webber Wentzel. He is currently a Senior Fellow at the Geneva Centre on Knowledge Governance at the Graduate Institute in Geneva and an Adjunct Professor, Law Faculty, University of Cape Town.
Paula Westenberger
Dr Paula Westenberger is a Senior Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law and a member of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence at Brunel University of London. She holds a PhD and an LLM in Intellectual Property Law from Queen Mary University of London, an LLB from PUC-Rio and a PG Certificate in Curating and Collections Management from Birkbeck. She is a Bridging Responsible AI Divides (BRAID) Research Fellow leading the AHRC-funded project Responsible AI for Heritage: copyright and human rights perspectives, in partnership with RBG Kew, and founded and leads the Heritage AI and Law (HAIL) Network. She is a member of the Museums Association Expert Working Group on AI and Ethics, Editor of the European Copyright and Design Reports and a qualified lawyer in Brazil, with experience in intellectual property law since 2006.
Stephen Wyber
Stephen Wyber is Director, External Affairs at the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions. In this role, he works with a team to raise awareness of the potential of libraries to engage in and contribute to key global agendas, serving as essential partners for sustainable development. Stephen focuses in particular on questions around copyright and open science, both in the context of IFLA’s engagement at the World Intellectual Property Organization, and its administration of the Knowledge Rights 21 Programme, which advocates for information laws and policies that enable research, education and access to culture. His other specific areas of work include the UN’s wider sustainable development agenda and digital inclusion. Previously within IFLA, Stephen held roles as Manager, Policy and Advocacy, and Policy Officer.
