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Heike Baumüller was Programme Manager, Environment and Natural Resources, at the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) up to the end of 2006. Among other areas, she coordinated ICTSD's project activities on biotechnology, fisheries, trade and environment, and biodiversity-related intellectual property rights from 2000, was the Managing Editor of the ICTSD publication BRIDGES Trade BioRes, and has published on a range of issues related to trade and sustainable development. She holds a master's degree in Environmental Studies from Macquarie University, Sydney, and is now working freelance as a consultant in Cambodia.

Susan H. Bragdon is qualified in biology, resource ecology and law. She works on the conservation, use and management of biological diversity; creating compatibility between environment and agriculture; and promoting food security. She was the lawyer for the Secretariat for the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee for the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), providing legal advice to the working group handling intellectual property rights, transfer of technology, including biotechnology, and access to genetic resources. She subsequently joined the treaty Secretariat as its Legal Advisor. From 1997 to 2004 she was a senior scientist dealing with law and policy at Bioversity International (formerly the International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (IPGRI)). She currently works as a consultant for intergovernmental organizations, governments and foundations.

Peter Drahos is a Professor in Law; he is Head of Programme of the Regulatory Institutions Network at the Australian National University (ANU), Director of the Centre for the Governance of Knowledge and Development at the ANU and a Director in the Foundation for Effective Markets and Governance. He also holds a Chair in Intellectual Property at Queen Mary College, University of London. He has degrees in law, politics and philosophy and is qualified as a barrister and solicitor. He has published widely in law and the social sciences on a variety of topics including contracts, legal philosophy, telecommunications, intellectual property, trade negotiations and international business regulation.

Graham Dutfield is Professor of International Governance at the Centre for International Governance, School of Law, University of Leeds. Previously he was Herchel Smith Senior Research Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London, and Academic Director of the UNCTAD-ICTSD capacity-building project on intellectual property rights and sustainable development. He has served as consultant or commissioned report author for several governments, international organizations, United Nations agencies and non-governmental organizations, including the governments of Germany, Brazil, Singapore and the UK, the European Commission, the World Health Organization, the World Intellectual Property Organization, and the Rockefeller Foundation.

Kathryn Garforth is a law and policy researcher and consultant working in the areas of biodiversity, biotechnology, intellectual property rights and health. She has attended numerous meetings of the CBD in a number of different capacities including as an NGO representative, on the Canadian delegation and as part of the CBD Secretariat. She has consulted widely for international organizations, national institutions and donors. She earned a joint law degree and master's in Environmental Studies from Osgoode Hall Law School, York University.

John E. Haapala Jr is an intellectual property attorney based in Eugene, Oregon. He is the former Director of the Farmer Cooperative Genome Project and the former Research Director for Oregon Tilth. He is also the owner/operator of Heron's Nest Farm and has been breeding and producing vegetable and flower seeds for the US organic seed market since 1988.

Michael Halewood is Head of the Policy Research and Support Unit of Bioversity International. He manages policy research projects with a broad range of partners, mostly from developing countries; he also coordinates representation of the International Agricultural Research Centres of the CGIAR at international genetic resources policy making negotiations. He was previously coordinator of the Crucible II Group, a global think-tank analysing genetic resources policy options.

Kent Nnadozie is a lawyer engaged in environmental and sustainable development law and policy issues. He is Director of the Southern Environmental and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (SEAPRI), an initiative of the International Centre for Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE), Nairobi, Kenya. He has been a member of the Nigerian delegation to the CBD and a member of the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law and Co-chair of its Specialist Group on the Implementation of the CBD. He is a specialist legal adviser at the Secretariat of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. He has also consulted widely for national institutions, international organizations and bodies as well as donors, including Bioversity International (formerly IPGRI), the FAO Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, and the Secretariat of the CBD.

Maria Julia Oliva is a legal consultant on intellectual property-related and other issues for the UNCTAD BioTrade Initiative. She is also one of the lead researchers in the Trade and Environment Research Group at the University of Geneva Faculty of Law. She sits on the board of directors of IP-Watch and is a member of the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law. Previously, she served for several years as Director of the Intellectual Property and Sustainable Development Project at the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL). She earned an LLM degree in environmental law from the Northwestern School of Law at Lewis and Clark College, USA, and a law degree at the University of Mendoza in Argentina.

Tasmin Rajotte is the Quaker Representative for the Quaker International Affairs Programme (QIAP) in Ottawa, Canada. She has been the primary developer and executor of the work on intellectual property rights since QIAP's inception in 2001. She has a master's degree in environmental studies and has worked in the field of sustainable agriculture, food security and environment for a number of years.

Pedro Roffe is Intellectual Property Fellow at the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD). A former staff member of UNCTAD, Geneva, he has also been a consultant to Corporacion Andina de Fomento (CAF), Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. His work has focused on intellectual property, foreign investment, transfer of technology-related issues and international economic negotiations. He has contributed to several UN reports on these issues and to specialized journals.

Geoff Tansey is a writer and consultant. He helped found and edit the journal Food Policy, has worked on agricultural development projects in Turkey, Albania and Mongolia and co-authored the prize-winning book The Food System: A Guide. He has consulted for various international organizations and was senior consultant for the intellectual property and development programmes of the Quaker United Nations Office, Geneva, and Quaker International Affairs Programme, Ottawa, from their inception until 2007. He was also a consultant for DFID for the first phase of the UNCTAD-ICTSD TRIPS and Development Capacity Building Project from 2001 to 2003. In June 2005, he received one of six Joseph Rowntree 'Visionaries for a Just and Peaceful World' Awards, which provide support for five years. He is also a member and a director of the Food Ethics Council.

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