Director
	The Director of the Institute is Professor Andrew Christie. Andrew 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.
	Associate Directors
	Dr Kwanghui Lim is an experienced teacher, researcher and consultant in the areas of technology management and thecommercialisation of innovation. His research explores the strategies used by firms to manage intellectual property and the commercialisation process. His doctoral thesis at MIT won the Academy of Management and INFORMS Best Dissertation Award (2001) in the Technology Management area, as well as the 2001 Richard R. Nelson Best Dissertation Award.
	Associate Professor Elizabeth Webster has interests in the determinants of enterprise R&D and innovation, the efficiency of the patent system, economic effects of brands and trademarking. She is also undertaking broader research on the economics of intangible capital including the measurement of intangible capital. She is currently Director of Microeconomics at the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research.
	Research Fellows
	Dr Chris Dent joined IPRIA as a Research Fellow in January 2005. Chris was awarded a PhD in Law in 2003 from Murdoch University in Perth, after gaining a Law/Politics joint degree, with Honours in Politics at the same institution. The focus of the thesis was the application of Foucaultian ideas to a study of the history of negligence law. Prior to commencing work at IPRIA, Chris worked with the Centre for Media and Communications Law. His research focused on the impact of defamation law on news production with a particular emphasis on the use of content analysis techniques in the analysis of print news. Policy research at the Law Reform Commission of Western Australia and the Victorian Law Reform Commission rounds out his professional career. The law reform work included judicial review of administrative decisions, crown liability, compulsory treatment and care of people with intellectual disabilities, and workplace privacy.
	Dr Paul Jensen, Senior Research Fellow, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne. Paul joined the Melbourne Institute in September 2003. He completed his PhD – which was on the efficiency effects of outsourcing public-sector services – at the Australian Graduate School of Management in Sydney. His current research interests are innovation and intellectual property, and the effects of intrinsic motivation on contractual relationships. Much of his research has a strong public policy focus, and has been published in academic journals such as the Oxford Review of Economic Policy and Public Performance & Management Review. In addition, he has acted as a consultant for the Productivity Commission, the Commonwealth Department of Industry, Tourism and Resources, NSW Treasury, and the NSW Department of Community Services.
	Dr Alfons Palangkaraya, Research Fellow, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne. Alfons has a PhD in Economics from Oregon State University, specialising in Industrial Economics and International Trade. His current research focuses on empirical firm-level productivity analysis and knowledge spill-overs. He will participate in various research projects at ipria, including the R&D and Intellectual Property Scoreboard.
	Fiona Rotstein joined IPRIA as a Research Fellow in January 2006. She has completed Law and Arts degrees at the University of Melbourne, and is currently undertaking a Masters in Intellectual Property Law at the University of Melbourne with the view to also becoming a registered Trademark Attorney. Prior to working at IPRIA, Fiona was an employee solicitor at two boutique intellectual property and commercial law firms, and worked with in-house counsel at Ericsson Australia. Fiona's research interests include trade mark, patent and copyright law. Fiona is currently working on the Australian Research Council Discovery Project "…and by opposing them, end them: A Comparative Examination of Opposition Processes in Patent Law" with Professor Andrew Christie, Kimberlee Weatherall and Dr Chris Dent.  She is also writing the materials for the subject 'Introduction to Intellectual Property' in collaboration with Professor Andrew Christie for a planned online Masters of International Intellectual Property Law at the University of Catalonia.
	Associate Professor Ian O Williamson joined IPRIA in September 2006 as a Research Fellow.  Ian received a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 2000 and holds a BS in Organizational Behavior from Miami University (Ohio).  He currently is an Associate Professor in the area of Human Resource Management at the Melbourne Business School.  Prior to joining the Melbourne Business School, Ian spent five years on the faculty of the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland.  Ian’s research focuses on how organizations recruit, select, and retain employees.  His emphasis is on understanding how firms hire and manage highly skilled knowledge workers, such as top executives, information technology workers, consultants, scientists and lawyers.  His current research focuses on the role of human resource practices in driving firm innovation.  One project in this domain examines how the hiring and deployment of in-house patent attorneys influences the ability of firms to generate patents from their R&D efforts.
	Executive Officer
	Jean Molloy is responsible for the administration and finances of the Institute. Jean was previously Executive Assistant to the Dean of Law at the University of Melbourne for 5 years, and Manager of the Department of Geography, University College Dublin, Ireland for 4 years. She is currently undertaking a Bachelor of Arts (Criminology and Psychology) on a part-time basis at the University of Melbourne.
	Administrative Staff
	Celia Ujvari, Administrative Officer, was previously Office Manager for an architectural company in London, United Kingdom, and held similar administrative positions after having trained and performed for several years as a professional dancer.
	Researchers
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