Professor, School of Law
University of Leeds
Biography: Graham Dutfield is Professor of International Governance at the University of Leeds, United Kingdom. He has published four books on intellectual property, genetic resources, traditional knowledge and the life science industries, and edited two others, the most recent being Innovation Without Patents (with Suthersanen & Chow). A fifth book, "Global Intellectual Property Law", co-authored with U. Suthersanen, will be published in September 2008. He was also the lead author of Intellectual Property Rights: Implications for Development, which was published by ICTSD and UNCTAD. His current research interests include innovation and creativity in law, economics, anthropology and history; politics of intellectual property, access to knowledge; history of patent law and the life science industries; intellectual property and genetic resources, traditional knowledge and folklore; and the TRIPS Agreement and public health. He has served as consultant or commissioned report author for several governments, international organisations, United Nations agencies and non-governmental organisations. He has a DPhil from the University of Oxford.
