Director - Professor Beth Webster

Professor Beth Webster is the Director of the Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia (IPRIA) and Professorial Fellow, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economics and Social Research at University of Melbourne, She has a PhD (economics) from the University of Cambridge and economics degrees from Monash University. Her research on the economics of innovation, intellectual property, as well as more general research on the performance of Australian enterprises is published regularly in both local and international academic journals. Beth sits on a number of government committees; makes regular presentations to industry and government audiences, both locally and overseas; and contributes to evidence-based policy debates in the media.