Lead Speaker

Overview of the Stages of TRIPS Negotiations

Adrian Otten, former Director, Intellectual Property Division
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Mogens Peter Carl, Former Director General in the European Commission, DG Trade, DG Environment (negotiator for the EU)

Peter Po Tak Cheung, Consultant, Hong Kong, China/David Fitzpatrick, Barrister England and Wales and Hong Kong, China, (negotiators for Hong Kong, China)

Thomas Cottier, Director World Trade Institute, Bern/Thu Lang Tran Wasescha, Consultant (negotiators for Switzerland)

Catherine Field, former Deputy General Counsel at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (negotiator for the US)

A.V. Ganesan, former Commerce Secretary,
Government of India/Jayashree Watal, Counsellor, Intellectual Property Division (negotiators for India)

John Gero, former Ambassador of Canada to the WTO (negotiator for Canada)

Adrian Macey, former Ambassador for Climate Change, government of New Zealand and now Senior Associate, Institute for Governance and Policy Studies, Victoria University of Wellington (negotiator
for New Zealand)

Umi Kalthum Binti Abdul Majid, Judge in Court of Appeals, Malaysia (negotiator for Malaysia)

Piragibe dos Santos Tarragô, the Permanent
Representative of the Federative Republic of Brazil to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, The Hague (negotiator for Brazil)

Antonio Gustavo Trombetta, Ambassador of
Argentina to Switzerland (negotiator for Argentina)

Hannu Wager, Counsellor, Intellectual Property Division (negotiator for the Nordics)

The Legal and Economic Impact of TRIPS: An
Overview

Keith Maskus, Arts and Sciences Professor of
Distinction in Economics, University of Colorado
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The Legal Impact of TRIPS in the area of Industrial Property

Marco Aleman, Acting Director, Patent Law Division, WIPO
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The Making of the Para 6 Solution and its
Implementation So Far

Jayashree Watal and Roger Kampf, Counsellors, Intellectual Property Division
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African Group Participation in the Para 6 Solution: Reflections of a Former Negotiator

Felix Maonera, Deputy Head, Geneva Office,
Secretariat of the African Caribbean and Pacific
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Session 3
Future of IP issues in the Multilateral Trading System

(Led by Carlos Primo Braga, Professor of International Political Economy and Director of the Evian Group, Lausanne)

Future of IP issues in the Multilateral Trading System

Thomas Cottier, Director World Trade Institute, Bern Switzerland's TRIPS negotiator
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Prof Li Mingde, Director Intellectual Property Centre, Institute of Law and Intellectual Property Centre, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, P. R. China
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Paulin Edou Edou, Director General, African
Intellectual Property Organisation (OAPI)

Closing Remarks

Jayashree Watal