Roundtable Speakers
Geertrui Van Overwalle (Chair)
Professor Emeritus of IP law, KU Leuven
Peter Oksen
Green Technology & Research manager, Climate Change & Food Security Unit, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
Federica Baldan
Legal and policy officer, European Commission, DG Research and Innovation
Bruno Vandermeulen
Senior IP Advisor and Director, Impact Licensing Initiative v.z.w.
Dominique Junod Moser
Director of Legal Affairs, Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi)
Brigitte Vézina
Director of Policy and Open Culture, Creative Commons
Nicola Searle (Chair)
Reader (Associate Professor), Goldsmiths University of London
Julio Raffo
Head of the Innovation Economy Section, WIPO
Nathan Wajsman
Chief Economist, EU Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
Yann Ménière
Chief Economist, European Patent Office (EPO)
Brent Lutes
Chief Economist, United States Copyright Office (USCO)
Manda Tay
Director, Strategic Planning and Policy, Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS)
Hugues B.H. Derème
Director General, Benelux Office for Intellectual Property
Wim Vanhaverbeke (Chair)
Professor of Digital Strategy and Innovation, Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Antwerp
Graham Cross
Executive Fellow and Senior Lecturer, Erasmus University/Rotterdam School of Management
Dolores Modic
Associate Professor, Nord University Business School
Frank Tietze
Professor of Innovation Engineering, University of Cambridge
Kathleen De Belder
Senior IP Expert, IMEC
Harrie Temmink (Chair)
Head of Service “Intellectual Property in the Digital World”, EUIPO
Virginie Fossoul
European Commission, DG GROW
Sabina Tsakova
Deputy Head, European Commission, DG CONNECT
Maria Turbasa
Legal and Policy Officer, European Commission, DG CONNECT
Anneli Andreasson-Bourgey
European Commission, DG TRADE
Rochelle Dreyfus (Chair)
Pauline Newman Professor of Law Emerita, New York University School of Law
Samuel Granata
Judge, Local Division Brussels of the Unified Patent Court (UPC)
Richard David Arnold
Judge, Court of Appeal, UK
Volkmar Henke
IP Lawyer, Bardehle Pagenberg
Verena Bertram
IP Lawyer, Taylor Wessing
Michaël Beck
Patent Attorney, IP Lawyer, Co-Founder, IPLodge
Arina Gorbatyuk (Chair)
Research Fellow, Centre for IT and IP Law (CiTiP), KU Leuven
Chiara Accornero
Legal Officer, IP Disputes, WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center
Karin Kuhl
Director, EUIPO Mediation Centre
Aleš Zalar
Director, Patent Mediation and Arbitration Centre (PMAC)
Flip Petillion
Lawyer, Arbitrator, Deputy Judge
Irene Calboli (Chair)
Professor of Law, Texas A&M University and Academic Fellow at the University of Geneva
Vladia Borissova
Director, EUIPO Academy
Josef Drexl
Director, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition (Munich)
Laurent Manderieux
Professor IP Law, Bocconi University & EIPTN
Yann Ménière
Chief Economist, EPO
