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Professor Margaret Abernethy Professor Margaret Abernethy, Dean, The Faculty of Economics and Commerce at the University of Melbourne, and also a leading researcher in the field of Management Accounting. Her research over the past five years has included a number of studies in both the service and manufacturing sectors, such as the role of accounting in the management of strategic change in public hospitals; implementing clinical costing and budgeting systems in hospitals; the relationship between manufacturing flexibility and the design of performance measurement systems; and the role of accounting and non-accounting forms of control in R&D organisations. Professor Andrew Christie Professor Andrew Christie holds the Davies Collison Cave Chair of Intellectual Property in the Melbourne Law School. He has particular expertise in the areas of copyright law, patent law and trade mark law as they apply in the digital environment, and patent law as it applies to biotechnological inventions. Professor Iain M. Cockburn Professor Iain M. Cockburn is Professor of Finance and Economics and Everett W. Lord Distinguished Faculty Scholar in the School of Management at Boston University, where he teaches and performs research in the areas of business strategy, intellectual property, economics of innovation, and management of high technology companies. Professor Cockburn graduated from the University of London in 1984, and completed his PhD in economics at Harvard University in 1990. Prior to coming to BU, he was the Van Dusen Professor of Business Administration in the Faculty of Commerce the University of British Columbia. He is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is a former Associate Editor of Management Science and Coeditor of the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy. Professor Peter Drahos Professor Peter Drahos is the head of the RegNet Program at the Australian National University. He holds degrees in law, politics, and philosophy. He has taught in the Department of Politics at the University of Adelaide and in the Law Faculty at the Australian National University. He was for several years an Officer of the Australian Commonwealth Attorney-General's Department where he drafted Commonwealth legislation. Before joining RegNet, Professor Drahos was for three years the Herchel Smith Senior Research Fellow in Intellectual Property in the Intellectual Property Unit in the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary College, University of London. He has published in law and social science journals on a variety of topics including contract, legal theory, telecommunications, and intellectual property. Dr Nisvan Erkal Dr Nisvan Erkal, is a Lecturer in the Department of Economics at the University of Melbourne. She joined the department after completing her Ph.D. at the University of Maryland, College Park in 2002. Her main research areas include innovators’ strategic patenting and disclosure incentives, and the anti-competitive consequences of technology transfer agreements. Professor Brian Fitzgerald Professor Brian Fitzgerald, Head of Law School at Queensland University of Technology holds postgraduate law degrees from Oxford University and Harvard University. He is co-editor of one of Australia's leading texts on E-Commerce, Software and the Internet - Going Digital 2000 - and has published articles on Law and the Internet, Technology Law and Intellectual Property Law in Australia, the United States, Europe and Japan. Professor Joshua Gans Professor Joshua Gans is one of Australia's top industrial economists and a world leader in research on innovation, licensing and the organisation of innovative activity. He is currently a Professor of Management (Information Economics) at the Melbourne Business School. He has worked extensively on IP issues in both Australia and the US, including the role of technology and IP protection in economic growth, IP issues associated with academic publishing, and choices associated with the commercialisation of ideas. Dr Christine Greenhalgh Dr Christine Greenhalgh is the Economics Research Director of the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre. She is Fellow and Tutor in Economics, St. Peter's College, and Reader in Economics, University of Oxford. Ms Frances Hanks Ms Frances Hanks BA, LLB (Sydney), Solictor of the Supreme Court of NSW is a Senior Fellow in the Law School at the University of Melbourne where she teaches and researches in competition law, and particularly in the interface between competition law and intellectual property. She is the author of numerous articles and chapters on competition law. She is a co-author of a book, Contractual Non-disclosure published by Longman, and of The benefits and costs of copyright: an economic perspective, a discussion paper published by the Centre for Copyright Studies. Her current research is on the treatment of natural monopolies under the Trade Practices Act, and the treatment of barriers to entry in competition law proceedings. She is a member of the Trade Practices Committee of the Law Council of Australia. Assistant Professor David Hsu David Hsu is the Edward B. and Shirley R. Shils Term Assistant Professor of Management at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He graduated from Stanford University with undergraduate majors in economics and political science. After a few years working in industry, he received his master’s degree in public policy from Harvard University, followed by his Ph.D. in management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Hsu’s research interests are in entrepreneurial innovation and management. Within that domain, he has investigated topics such as intellectual property management, start-up innovation, technology commercialization strategy, and venture capital. His research has appeared in leading journals such as Industrial and Corporate Change, Journal of Finance, Management Science, RAND Journal of Economics, and Research Policy. Dr Dan Hunter Dr Dan Hunter is an Assistant Professor of Legal Studies in the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a Senior Fellow in the Law School at the University of Melbourne. His expertise is in the fields of cyberspace and Internet law; artificial intelligence and cognitive science models of law; and electronic commerce regulation. Associate Professor Andrew Kenyon Associate Professor Andrew Kenyon is the Director of the Centre for Media and Communications Law in the Faculty of Law at the University of Melbourne, where he teaches the graduate subjects 'Defamation Law' and 'Regulation in the Digital Age', and the undergraduate subjects, 'Evidence' and 'Media Law'. Dr Kenyon is an expert in media law and researches in comparative defamation law, free speech and electronic media regulation, as well as copyright law. He is currently a Director of the Arts Law Centre of Australia and editor of the Media & Arts Law Review. Professor Stephen King Professor Stephen King is a Professorial Fellow at the Melbourne Business School and a Commissioner with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. Dr Owen Morgan Dr Owen Morgan is a leading New Zealand IP academic who teaches in The University of Auckland of Auckland Business School where he is also a Research Associate of the Mira Szaszy Research Centre for Māori and Pacific Economic Development. In recent years, Dr Morgan has concentrated on policy issues and he has made numerous submissions to Select Committees and in response to policy documents particularly on copyright and related rights. His current research interests include intellectual property issues as they relate to indigenous peoples; interdisciplinary research on innovation; and interdisciplinary research on call centres particularly relating to privacy and the protection of confidential information. Associate Professor Ann O'Connell Associate Professor Ann O'Connell is an Associate Professor at the Law School. She is also Special Counsel, Allens, Arthur Robinson, Solicitors. She lectures in taxation at the undergraduate and postgraduate level and also teaches courses in securities regulation. At the postgraduate level, she teaches Regulation of Securities Offerings, Taxation of Remuneration, Taxation of Superannuation and Capital Gains Tax - Problems in Practice. Professor Sam Ricketson Professor Sam Ricketson, is a world authority on intellectual property law. He is author of The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works: 1886 - 1986, A work that established him categorically on the international stage. He has held various academic appointments at the University of Melbourne from 1975 - 1991 and was appointed Sir Keith Aickin Professor of Commercial Law at Monash University in 1991. He practises part time at the Victorian Bar. Associate Professor Michael Ryall Associate Professor Ryall is a researcher in strategy and economics at the Melbourne Business School. Professor Cameron Rider Professor Cameron Rider practises in corporate and international tax. He has returned as a tax partner to Allens Arthur Robinson after a period as Professor of Taxation Law at The University of Melbourne. Dr Mark Rogers Dr Mark Rogers is a Senior Research Associate of the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre and a Senior Fellow of the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economics and Social Research, the University of Melbourne. Professor Danny Samson Professor Danny Samson, Professor of Management, Department of Management and Associate Dean (Development) of the Faculty of Economics and Commerce, the University of Melbourne. Assistant Professor Deepak Somaya Assistant Professor Deepak Somaya's research interests span high technology strategy, intellectual property strategy, entrepreneurship, and the economics of innovation.  In his recent and ongoing work, Somaya has studied the drivers and impact of strategies to acquire and enforce intellectual property in various industries and contexts. He has also researched international patent protection, and the linkages between innovation and intellectual property in “complex multi-invention-product” industries. Somaya's primary teaching interests are in managerial economics, international business, and technology strategy. Associate Professor Scott Stern Associate Professor Scott Stern, Associate Professor in the Kellog School of Management, Northwestern University, USA. Associate Professor Miranda Stewart Associate Professor Miranda Stewart joined the Faculty as a Senior Lecturer in June 2000. She has over ten years experience in tax law in Australia and the US in government, private practice and academia. She studied mathematics and law at the University of Sydney. She worked in the Australian Taxation Office, National Office, on business tax legislative reform including environmental and mining tax issues. Professor David Studdert Professor David Studdert is a Federation Fellow at the University of Melbourne. He holds a joint professorial appointment at in the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences. He joined the faculty in January 2007 from the Harvard School of Public Health, where he was Associate Professor of Law and Public Health. Professor Studdert has previously held positions as a policy analyst at RAND (Santa Monica, USA), a policy advisor to the Victorian Minister for Health, and a practicing lawyer. Ms Kimberlee Weatherall Kimberlee Weatherall is a Senior Lecturer in the TC Beirne School of Law at The University of Queensland and an Adjunct Research Fellow with the Australian Centre for Intellectual Property in Agriculture.  Prior to joining the Faculty in 2007, Kimberlee was a Senior Lecturer at the University of Melbourne and Associate Director (Law) of the Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia.  She has also lectured at the University of Sydney, and worked as a solicitor at Mallesons Stephen Jaques in Sydney.  She holds a Masters of Law from Yale University and a Bachelor of Civil Law from Oxford University. Kimberlee teaches and researches in intellectual property law, with a particular interest in digital copyright, the relationship between international trade and intellectual property, and the systems for administration and enforcement of intellectual property rights.  Current research projects include a project on patent oppositions (with Professor Andrew Christie and Dr Chris Dent at IPRIA), a book project on Australian Copyright Law, work on IP and Free Trade Agreements, and a project on IP bureaucracies. She has published in the Modern Law Review, Sydney Law Review. Her research on IP has informed her expert evidence before Committees of the Federal House of Representatives and Senates, and been used by law reform bodies on issues of IP law reform.  She has been a member of the Law Council of Australia IP Subcommittee since 2006. Ms Robin Wright Robin Wright is a Research Fellow working for CMCL and IPRIA on the ARC funded research project Cultural Collections, Creators and Copyright: Museums, Galleries, Libraries and Archives and Australia's Digital Heritage. Robin's research interests include Australian and international copyright law and its intersection with the media and cultural industries, education and digital technologies. Her background includes practising as a corporate solicitor in Australia as well as project management and empirical and policy research in the film industry, on digital technology projects and in the arts in both Australia and the UK. Associate Professor Anne Wyatt Associate Professor Anne Wyatt has a First Class Honours degree, a University Medal, and is a Doctor of Philosophy. Her PhD is on the Chancellor's list of highest quality dissertations at the University of Technology, Sydney. She is an Academic Board member of the Institute of Chartered Accountant of Australia (ICAA) and is the Chair of the ICAA Financial Accounting Module Committee. Dr Jongsay Yong Dr Jongsay Yong is a Senior Research Fellow in the Applied Microeconomic Section of the Melbourne Institute. He joined the Melbourne Institute in 2002, after spending eight years as lecturer and later senior lecturer at the National University of Singapore. His research interests centre on theoretical and empirical issues in industrial economics and health economics. He is experienced in building and analysing theoretical models for empirical and policy analysis. In recent years he has expanded his research into data-intensive work with a particular focus on health economics and firm productivity. His current work includes a project on measuring hospital performance and quality, and another on investigating productivity of new firms and existing firms using firm-level data. Both projects are funded by the Australian Research Council under the Linkage Grant scheme. Back to top