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In 1988 she graduated from Moscow State University. Svetlana has been at Higher School of Economics since 1993. In 2001 she received Doctor of Sciences degree. Her professional interests are: Organization of industrial markets in Russia; Vertical integration in Russian industry; Non-monetary settlements and their influence on the organization of markets; Imperfection of market information; Anti-monopoly and competitive policies in Russia. She has dozens of printed scientific publications.
In 1983 he graduated from the Leningrad State University, majoring in biology, and in 1998 from St. Petersburg State University with a degree in law. Master (candidate) of laws.
Author of 43 scientific articles and patents , 7 monographs on the budget and the economy.
In 1990 he was elected to the Leningrad City Council, Chairman of the Commission on Environment and Urban Affairs.
Since 1995 - Chairman of the Commission on Urban Affairs, Chairman of the Budget Committee of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg.
In 1996 he was appointed Vice-Governor and Chairman of the Finance Committee of the St. Petersburg Administration .
In December 1999, he became a member of the State Duma. Deputy Chairman of the "Yabloko" fraction, Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Credit Organizations and Financial Markets .
On March 10, 2004 he became Head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service.
Member of the Government Commission on Monitoring Foreign Investment in the Russian Federation.
Member of the Government Commission on Administrative Reform.
Member of the Government Commission on the development of competition and support of small business.
Chairman of the Interstate Council on Antimonopoly Policy of CIS member since 2006.
Head of Department of the Federal Antimonopoly Service in Higher School of Economics, Professor.
ADITYA BHATTACHARJEA is Professor and Head of the Department of Economics at the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, India, where he teaches postgraduate courses in industrial organization and Indian economic development. He earlier taught for many years at St Stephen’s College, Delhi, and has been a visiting associate professor at Duke University, USA. His research interests include trade policy under imperfect competition, labour market regulation, and competition (antitrust) law and policy. His articles have appeared in leading law and economics journals. Professor Bhattacharjea served as a member of the Expert Group on Trade and Competition Policy, Ministry of Commerce, Government of India, in 2002-03. From 2005 to 2010, he was a resource person for the Competition Policy and Government Procurement sessions of the annual WTO Regional Trade Policy Courses for the Asia/Pacific region, conducted at Hong Kong University and then at the National University of Singapore. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Export-Import Bank of India, and of the Standing Committee on Industrial Statistics of the Ministry of Statistics and Program Implementation. He holds an M.Phil. degree from the University of Cambridge and a Ph.D. from Boston University.
In 1980 he graduated from the Mechanics and Mathematics Faculty of Moscow State University and then became master (candidate) of physical and mathematical sciences. He was invited by the Scientific Library of Moscow State University to undertake computerization of library processes. Alexander Visly - one of the founders of Russian MARS electronic format which was created for the transfer of information from paper to electronic form. Then Alexander Visly was appointed Deputy Director of the Scientific Library of Moscow State University.
In the Russian State Library, he works: since 1998 – as first assistant director for computerization, then as head of the Centre for Information Technology, from 2001 to 2009 – as Deputy General Director of the Russian State Library, Director on Computerization. In October 2009, A. Visly was appointed General Director of the Russian State Library.
He advocates the liberalization of access to educational and scientific literature, is one of the most active initiators of amendments to Part IV of the Civil Code on intellectual property rights.
Zhiyuan Cui is a Professor at the School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing. He is also a regular Anthony W. and Lulu C.Wang Distinguished Visiting Professor at Cornell University Law School. In 1985 he graduated from the Engineering Department of the National University of Defense Technology (China). He received his Ph.D in Political Science from University of Chicago in 1995.
Сui gained reputation as one of the founding members of China's New Left movement. More recently Cui has become known for his work on and as a proponent of neo-leftist model for development as an alternative to neo-liberal capitalism. He argues that neo-leftist model could end China's dependence on exports and savings; reduce the growing economic divide between rural and urban areas as well as use public ownership and state planning to stimulate private business. He has also been critical of recent privatizations of state assets. He has a significant number of scientific publications.
She holds B.A. and M.S. degrees in Chemistry and spent several years as a research chemist before entering Columbia University School of Law, where she served as Articles and Book Review Editor of the Law Review. After graduating, she was a law clerk to Chief Judge Wilfred Feinberg of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and to Chief Justice Warren Burger of the U.S. Supreme Court. She is a member of the American Law Institute and served as a Reporter for its Project on Intellectual Property: Principles Governing Jurisdiction, Choice of Law, and Judgments in Transnational Disputes. She also sits on the National Academy of Science's Committee on Science, Technology and Law.
Professor Dreyfuss was a consultant to the Federal Courts Study Committee, to the Presidential Commission on Catastrophic Nuclear Accidents, and to the Federal Trade Commission. She served on the National Academy of Sciences' Committees on Intellectual Property in Genomic and Protein Research and Innovation and on Intellectual Property Rights in the Knowledge-Based Economy, on the Secretary of the Department of Health & Human Service's Advisory Committee on Genetics, Health, and Society, and on BNA's Advisory Board to USPQ. In addition to articles in her specialty areas, she has co-authored casebooks on civil procedure and intellectual property law.
Ivan Zassoursky began his career in the early 1990s as a reporter in «Nezavisimaya Gazeta». In 1993 he became its head of economy department. In 1995, he was an election campaign manager for the office of the governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region. In 1997 became an advisor to the First Deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov. From 2001 to 2005 Zassoursky worked in the Internet holding «Rambler» as Deputy General Director of Public Relations, and later as the Director of Special Projects. At the beginning of the 2000s he became co-director of the Russian-American Center of the New York University and held a lecture tour on the U.S. East Coast .
Since 2008 he works as the chief editor of the online newspaper «Private Correspondent».
Published books:”Media of the Second Republic”, 1999; “Reconstruction of Russia. Mass-media and politics in the 90s”, 2001; “Media and Power in Post-Soviet Russia”, 2004
Ioannis joined University College of London in September 2005. Since September 2004, he has been a visiting Professor in competition and intellectual property law at the Centre for International Industrial Property Studies (CEIPI) of the University of Strasbourg. He was a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley in 2006. He has also lectured in various areas of European law and competition law at the University of Strasbourg in France and has held visiting appointments in competition and regulatory law at the University Paul Cézanne (Aix-en Provence /Marseille) and the Centre for European Studies of the Ecole Nationale d'Administration (ENA). Besides academia, Ioannis has working experience at the European Court of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission (New York office) and is a qualified advocate at the Athens and Paris bars. Ioannis contributes widely to the global discussion in the area of competition law and policy. He has been elected a member of the international advisory board of the American Antitrust Institute in 2010. He is also the co-general Editor of the Global Competition Law and Economics Series, established by Stanford University Press, in June 2010. He is the chairman of the Editorial Board of Competition Bulletin, Paris, the co-chairman of the advisory board of Antitrust Encyclopaedia, a Senior Editor of the Antitrust Chronicle, Boston, USA, a member of the advisory board of Global Antitrust Review, London and the chairman and executive director of the Institute of Competition Law Studies, Athens, Greece.
In 2005 Vyacheslav Lisakov initiated an all-Russian protest rally in defense of the owners of Right Hand Drive cars, held in 48 regions of the country. In 2006, he has registered the interregional public organization of car drivers “Freedom of choice. " The organization conducted series of nationwide actions, including one for the protection of the owners of American cars. In 2006 he was awarded by the magazine "Ogonek" in the nomination "Man of the Year" and by the newspaper "Vedomosti" in the nomination "Person of the Year. In 2009, he won the national public transport industry awards " Golden Chariot ".
From 2009 to 2011 he worked as Deputy General Director for Innovation of " Moscow Institute of Materials Science and Efficient Technologies"
In December 2011 he was elected to the State Duma of the sixth convocation, he became deputy chairman of the committee on constitutional law and state-building.
In 1997 she graduated from the Faculty of Cultural Studies of the Moscow State University of Culture (MGUKI) .
In 1991 - 2001, she has worked at the Moscow State Academic Art Institute in various positions, including that of a Vice-Chancellor for Economic Affairs.
In 2001 – 2003, she was the Vice-Chancellor for Research and the Head of Post-Graduate Division at the State Musical Pedagogical Institute.
In 2003 – 2004, she worked as Assistant to the Chancellor of the Moscow State Conservatory.
In 2004 – 2013, she was the Chief of Staff of the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation.
Since December 2013, she has been Deputy Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation.
She has been working in the legal field for over 20 years. Since 1999, she has been working in the system of arbitration courts as judge’s assistant in Moscow District Arbitration Court, as senior consultant of the High Arbitration Court, as a judge of the Tenth Arbitration Court of Appeal. From 2013 she serves as Judge of Intellectual property rights Court.
Mr Suresh P. Prabhu is Chairperson of the Council on Energy, Environment and Water, India. He is former Union Cabinet Minister of Power, Environment and Forests, Industry, Chemicals & Fertilizers, Heavy Industry & Public Enterprises, and the Chairman of the Task Force on Interlinking of Rivers with the rank and status of Union Cabinet Minister. He has been a Member of Parliament (India) in the 11th, 12th, 13th and 14th Lok Sabha (from 1996-2009). As a Minister with the Government of India, he introduced reforms in the power sector that went a long way in protecting the environment and ensuring sustainable development by conserving natural resources and bringing electricity to remote corners of the country. Mr Prabhu is Global Ambassador of the Global Water Partnership, Stockholm; Member of Global Advisory Council of the World Economic Forum; Chairman, Climate Group India; and Member, CII National Council on Climate Change, among other national & international associations. Mr Prabhu holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Honors) and L.L.B. from Mumbai University and is a Fellow Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. He was conferred an honorary doctorate and is registered for two Ph.D. programs, on climate change issues at Freie University, Berlin and on state public finance with Mumbai University.
Had graduated from Moscow State University (Faculty of Law) Candidate of juridical sciences. Served at Administration of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Embassy of the Republic of Kazakhstan in Switzerland. Since 1999 she works in WIPO.
Harry First is the Charles L. Denison Professor of Law at New York University School of Law and Director of the law school's Competition, Innovation, and Information Law Program. From 1999-2001 he served as Chief of the Antitrust Bureau of the Office of the Attorney General of the State of New York. Professor First's teaching interests include antitrust, regulated industries, international and comparative antitrust, business crime, and innovation policy. He is the co-author of law school casebooks on antitrust (with John Flynn and Darren Bush) and on regulated industries (with John Flynn), as well as the author of a casebook on business crime, and the author of numerous articles involving antitrust law.
Professor First antitrust scholarly work has focused on various aspects of antitrust enforcement, including “The Case for Antitrust Civil Penalties” (Antitrust Law Journal, 2009) and “Modernizing State Antitrust Enforcement” (Anti-trust Bulletin, 2009). Along with Professor Andrew Gavil of the Howard University School of Law, he is currently working on a book titled Microsoft and the Globalization of Antitrust Law: Competition Policy for the Twenty-First Century, to be published by MIT Press in 2012.
Karan practices mostly antitrust law. He has extensive experience in advising and representing clients on mergers, commercial arrangements, strategic alliances, behavioral (cartel and dominance) cases before the Competition Commission of India (CCI), and the Competition Appellate Tribunal. In 2012, he was recognized by the Asialaw Leading Lawyers survey as a leading lawyer across Asia Pacific for Competition and Antitrust. He has advised the Tata - Starbucks joint venture; and successfully defended Lufthansa Airlines, DLF Limited and INOX Leisure in cartel and dominance investigations.
He has represented various corporations including DENSO Japan, Ratnakar Bank and Mylan Inc. their combination filing with the CCI. In early 2011, he advised the CCI on the merger control regulations introduced by it. He also serves as an Associate Editor of the Manupatra Competition Law Reports. He has been closely associated with the drafting of the Indian national competition law policy and other recommendations made by the Committee on the National Competition Law Policy.
He obtained Bachelor in Civil Law from the University of Oxford in 2007.
AAI International Advisor for Hong Kong Thomas Cheng is an associate professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Hong Kong. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale College, and a Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School, and a Bachelor of Civil Law degree in European and Comparative Law from the University of Oxford. His research focuses on competition law and policy issues, especially comparative competition law and competition law in developing countries. He is a member of the Competition Commission, Administrative Appeals Board, the Energy Advisory Committee, the Committee on Slots Complaints, and the Consumer Council, where he is also the chairman of the Competition Policy Committee. He has assisted the Hong Kong government in drafting the city's first comprehensive competition law. He is also a non-governmental advisor to the International Competition Network and a member of the executive board of the Academic Society for Competition Law (“ASCOLA”).
Since joining the Seattle University faculty in 1996, Margaret Chon has been a dedicated scholar and teacher of intellectual property and critical theory. She is currently the Donald & Lynda Horowitz Professor for the Pursuit of Justice, and formerly Associate Dean for Research. Her current scholarship explores the global governance dimensions of intellectual property, especially their distributional consequences. During the 2011-12 year, she was the Senior Global Emile Noël Research Fellow in the Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law & Justice at New York University School of Law. Following graduation from law school in 1986, Chon worked for a year as a staff attorney at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. She then clerked for the Honorable A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., and practiced intellectual property law with Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis in Philadelphia. Immediately prior to her first academic appointment, she served in an administrative clerkship with Chief Judge Dolores K. Sloviter of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, where she assisted in the revision of the local Third Circuit rules. Throughout her professional career, she has been and continues to be active in various community and professional organizations.
Partner in iRights.Lab. journalist, founder and editorial director of iRights.info. His main area of interest is social aspects of digitization.
Associate Professor on Copyright and Journalism Online; editing and management coach for ARD - ZDF Media Academy , DW-Akademie and other institutions across Germany , Asia , Africa , the Middle East , Eastern and Southeastern Europe.
Expert witness in federal hearings on copyright, online journalism and quality journalism, keynote speaker and panelist at national and international conferences such as re: publica, Global Media Forum, and others. Conference planning and organization for Goethe-Institut, German Foreign Ministry, Böll Foundation and others.
Board member of Reporters Without Borders, Advisory Board Member at deutschland.de and member of the American Council on Germany. MA in Philosophy (Free University of Berlin), MA in Journalism ( University of Colorado) . Co -author: Work 2.0 , 2009 ( with V. Djordjevic et al. ); Copyright in everyday life, 2008 ( with V. Djordjevic et al. ); Writing for the Web , 2003 ( with M. Wieland)
Working at the Federation Council of Russia and in judiciary, Alexey has obtained an extensive experience as an expert in the realization of large-scale policy-making projects as well as legal practice. Alexey also was a general counsel at a leading Russian industrial group. Оbtained a Masters degree in law from the Harvard University. President of the Harvard Club of Russia. Worked as a researcher at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at the Harvard Law School.
Alexey teaches an interdisciplinary course on Law and Information in the Globalized World at the National Research University – Higher School of Economics. He is also involved into the work of the Centre for Law, Economics and Society of the University College London (UCL), particularly into the activities of the Social Media Unit, the European forum dedicated to establish a dialogue on this new technology with the aim to influence the practices and policies of the key players in the social media space.
Born in Leningrad in 1977.
In 1999 graduated from the faculty of law of the St.-Petersburg state university cum laude. Ph.D of jurisprudence.
In 2004 - 2005 - counselor of the Minister of economic development and trade of the Russian Federation. Since 2005 - the head of Secretary of the Chairman of the Supreme Arbitration Court of the Russian Federation, and in 2006 - 2010 - the head of the machinery - the manager of the Supreme Arbitration Court of the Russian Federation.
The senior lecturer of the civil law department of the faculty of law of the St.-Petersburg state university. The author of more than 30 scientific publications on civil law problems.
In 2008 he graduated from Moscow State University. In 2012 received his Ph D. degree at the Faculty of Law graduate of Moscow State University ( Department of Business Law ). From 2005 to 2008 he worked in one of the Russian law firms specializing in intellectual property protection. Since 2008 he works at the Federal Antimonopoly Service, namely, from 2008 to 2012 - at various posts in the department of control of advertising and unfair competition; since 2012 - in the legal department. In October 2012, he was appointed deputy head of the Legal Department. He takes part in teaching and research activities. He is a lecturer in the department of competition law at Moscow State University of Law. Denis is the author of numerous articles on various aspects of competition law.
Alessandro in 2002 receives Juris Doctor diploma, cum laude, at University of Turin and in 2009 - his Ph.D. degree in Intellectual Property and Competition Law at University of Pavia and University of Munich. From 2000 – 2012 he works, first, as trainee and, then, as lawyer in private sector. He has been undertaking various academic and research activities since 2003. He has many scientific publications in IP law sphere.
Leopold Specht is the Chairman of the Austrian-Russian Legal Society since 2003, Member of Academic Council, Harvard Institute for Global Law and Policy since 1995, Managing Partner at the Specht Rechtsanwalt GmbH (Vienna). He was a Professor of Law at Harvard University between 1992 and 1994 and Member of Austrian Convention on European Constitution (2003-2004). Leopold has numerous scientific publications.