Richard Gold, LLM, SJD, is a professor at McGill University specializing in finding novel incentives to advance drug discovery more efficiently, Director of McGill’s Center for Intellectual Property Policy, and Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation. His work spans over two decades in universities, before courts, and with international organizations on issues ranging from patents on human genes, public-private partnerships to advance biomedical innovation, pharmaceutical patents, and international trade. Richard contributes to both academic audiences – in science and research policy, intellectual property, business, international relations and more – and the public through opinion pieces and media interviews. He has advised governments and international organizations, such as the World Intellectual Property Organization, the World Health Organization, the Organisation for Economic Development and Co-operation, and UNITAID, as well as having been a member of expert groups on issues ranging from biomedical innovation to nanotechnology. Richard combines academic rigor with implementation, mixing his backgrounds in science, law, and legal practice to make science a team sport.
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