ESSENTIAL INVENTIONS - Key Persons
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- Yale Law School and Director of the Global Health Justice Partnership. ( Bio Here )
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- Special Adviser
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- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- Professor at Department of Economic Theory
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- Access Campaign India Co - Ordinator at Médecins Sans Frontières
Michelle Childs. Independent consultant on access to medicines and access to knowledge. (Bio here)
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- Independent Consultant
- Member of the Advisory Board
Michelle Childs is an independent consultant on access to medicines and access to knowledge. Until recently Michelle was the Director of Policy Advocacy for the Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines, part of the independent medical humanitarian organization Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF). The purpose of the Campaign is to improve access to existing medical tools (medicines, diagnostics, vaccines) and to stimulate the development of urgently needed better tools for people in countries where MSF works. This includes addressing patent and other IP barriers and promoting new models to stimulate innovation and access. Previously she was Head of European Affairs at Knowledge Ecology International (KEI), working on Access to Medicine and Access to Knowledge issues . Prior to that Michelle was Head of Policy Research and Analysis at the Consumers' Association UK (Which?). She is on the advisory board of the Open Rights Group in the UK and has been a personal advisor to the Director General of the Office of Fair Trading UK, a consultant to the Hong Kong Telecoms Regulator and a policy adviser to the UK Telecoms Regulator. She started out working as a lawyer (solicitor) in the Commercial Litigation Department of a London law firm handling a range of disputes. She holds a law degree LLB (Hons).
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- Intellectual Property and Pharmaceutical Policy Advisor
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- Chief Executive Officer
- Member of the Advisory Board
- Economist
Philippe Aigrain. Chief Executive Officer of Sopinspace. An economist by training, Aigrain is one of the directors of the Software Freedom Law Center and a cofounder of the La Quadrature du Net group. (Bio here).
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- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- Policy Advisor
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- Senior Research Associate at Centre for International Intellectual Property Studies