Biography
Professor Duncan Matthews is Director of the Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute and a member of the Centre for Commercial Law Studies. He has held academic positions as a lecturer in law at the University of Warwick and as a research fellow at the ESRC Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, also at the University of Warwick. He has worked as a researcher at a policy think-tank (the National Institute for Economic and Social Research, London) and as an EU lobbyist.
He has acted as an advisor to: Directorate General Trade of the European Commission; the ECAP II EC-ASEAN Intellectual Property Rights Co-operation Programme; the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP); the European Parliament Committee on International Trade; the European Patent Office (EPO); the UK Strategic Advisory Board for Intellectual Property Policy (SABIP); and the UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) Expert Advisory Group on Trade and Development.
He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA) Education Committee and also worked with the Centre for the Management of Intellectual Property in Health Research and Development (MIHR) on an IP Handbook of Best Practices. He is co-founder of the European Intellectual Property Teachers’ Network (EIPTN).
He is co-founder of the European Intellectual Property Teachers’ Network (EIPTN).