| Sisule F. Musungu: Board Chairman |
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Sisule F. Musungu is an independent legal researcher and policy analyst on innovation for development, access to knowledge and intellectual property. His research interests are human rights law especially economic, social and cultural rights.
Some of his recent work and publications include, among others: "The Use of Flexibilities in TRIPS by Developing Countries: Can they Promote Access to Medicines?" (with Cecilia Oh), South Centre and WHO, Geneva: 2006; and "Rethinking Innovation, Development, and Intellectual Property in the UN: WIPO and Beyond", Issues Papers No. 5, QIAP, Ottawa: 2005. Mr. Musungu, who is an advocate of the High Court of Kenya holds law degrees from the University of Pretoria and the University of Nairobi as well as a Post-graduate Diploma in Law from the Kenya School of Law. He is currently writing his PhD thesis on graduation in patent law at the University of Bern in Switzerland and is also a Senior Samuelson Fellow, Information Society Project and Associate Research Scholar at the Yale Lae Law School, Yale University. Previously, Mr Musungu worked as the Coordinator of the Innovation and Access to Knowledge Programme at the South Centre in Geneva and as an associate at the law firm Hamilton, Harrison and Mathews in Nairobi.
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Mr. Musungu has authored many publications and papers and spoken at many international conferences on these issues as well as consulted for, and or acted as an advisor to various UN agencies, international organisations, non-governmental organisations and national governments.