Advisory Board

IQsensato established this Advisory Board to advise the Board of Directors on:

• Research priorities and strategy;
• The development and implementation of projects; and
• Evaluation and assessment of the organisation’s research and policy work.

The members of the Advisory Board, who are persons of high professional standards and integrity, are drawn from different professional and academic fields and bring together extensive experience in research, strategy and organisational development, management, communications and evaluation.

Below are brief profiles of the current members of the Advisory Board

Prof. Peter Drahos

Prof. Drahos, an Australian national, is the Director of the Centre for Governance of Knowledge and Development and the Head of Program of the Regulatory Institutions Network (RegNet) at the Australian National University. His former positions include Herchel Smith Senior Research Fellow in Intellectual Property at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS), Queen Mary College, University of London and officer of the Australian Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department. He holds degrees in law, politics and philosophy and is admitted as a barrister and solicitor. He has published widely in law and social science journals on a variety of topics including contract, legal philosophy, telecommunications, intellectual property, trade negotiations and international business regulation. He has worked as a consultant on international intellectual property issues for a number of organizations, including the European Commission, the UK Commission on Intellectual Property Rights, the Commonwealth Secretariat, Oxfam and the ASEAN Secretariat.

Prof. Drahos’s many publications include, among others: Information Feudalism: Who Controls the Knowledge Economy? (with John Braithwaite), Earthscan: 2002; Global Business Regulation, (with John Braithwaite), Cambridge University Press: 2000; and A Philosophy of Intellectual Property, Dartmouth: 1996. His full publication list and other biographical details are available at ANU’s website at https://www.anu.edu.au/fellows/pdrahos/.

Kobina Daniel

Mr. Daniel, a Ghanaian national, is Legal Advisor with the World Bank Group’s Investment Climate Team for Africa. He is based in Johannesburg South Africa. Mr. Daniel is part of the team that assists developing countries to design and implement strategies for private sector-led economic development. His work has primarily focused on reform of the business environment and investment climates of post-conflict countries in Africa including, among others, Liberia, Southern Sudan and Sierra Leone.

Mr. Daniel, who holds a Master of Law (LL.M) degree from the University of Pretoria and a Bachelor of Law (LL.B) degree from the University of Ghana, Legon has previously worked with a number of organisations and institutions. These include: the Africa Management Services Company (AMSCO), a joint initiative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) as a legal officer and Acting Regional Manager (East Africa); TVAfrica as General Counsel and Corporate Secretary; Gaisie, Zwennes Hughes &Co (Barristers and Solicitors) in Ghana as an Associate; and as a part-time lecturer at the University of Ghana. Mr. Daniel also clerked for Justice Tole Madala of the South African Constitutional Court.

Prof. Dominique Foray

Prof. Foray, a French national, is the Director of the Chair of Economics and Management of Innovation and the Dean of the College of Management of Technology at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. Among other institutional activities, he also currently serves as vice-chairman of the Expert Group “Knowledge for Growth”, a group of prominent economists chaired by Commissioner J. Potocnik (DG Research of the European Commission). Previously, he was a Research Director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) as well as a Professor at the Institut pour le Management de la Recherche et de l’Innovation (IMRI) of the University of Paris-Dauphine (from 1993 to 2000), and then a Principal Analyst at the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) from 2000 to 2004. Prof. Foray obtained his PhD in 1984 and his “habilitation” in 1992 from the University Lumière of Lyon. He received the distinction of outstanding research in 1995 (médaille du CNRS).

Prof. Foray’s research interests include all topics and issues related to economic policy in the context of the new knowledge-based economy. This broad field covers the economics of science, technology and innovation. He is recognized as one of the leading academic experts on the economics of innovation and knowledge, and economic policy implications of the new knowledge-based economy. He is widely published on these issues. One of his ground-breaking publications is The Economics of Knowledge, MIT Press: 2004. Prof. Foray’s full publication list as well as other biographical information is available on EPFL’s website at http://people.epfl.ch/dominique.foray.

Bernice Lee

Ms. Lee is currently the Research Director, Energy, Environment and Resource Governance at Chatham House. Her main areas of expertise are on; China and climate security; EU-China relations on energy and climate change; and sustainable development governance. Previously, she was the Head, Energy, Environment and Development Programme and Team Leader, Interdependencies on Energy and Climate Security for China and Europe Project both at Chatham House; Policy and Strategy Advisor at the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) in Geneva; and Officer, in the Strategic Planning Unit, UN Secretary General’s Office in New York, among other positions.

Ms. Lee is widely published and an accomplished commentator in her areas of expertise. Some of her recent work include: ” Climate Change: Avoiding Climate Crunch”, The World Today, December 2008; “An EU-China Pact is Key to a Global Climate Deal” (with Nick Mabey), Europe’s World, Autumn 2008; “China and EU Could Lead the Low Carbon Economy”, chinadialogue, November 2007; and “Policy Coherence” in Adil Najam, Ricardo Melendez-Ortiz and Mark Halle (eds.) Resource Book on the Southern Agenda for Trade Environment, 2006.

Victor Mosoti

Mr. Mosoti, a Kenyan national, is Legal Officer at the Development Law Service (LEGN) of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Rome, Italy. In this capacity, he provides legal advice to FAO Member States and to various FAO Departments on trade and intellectual property laws, natural resources law and rural development as well as public international law and international environmental law. Mr. Mosoti, is also a Visiting Instructor at the International Development Law Organization (IDLO) in Rome for the ‘Enterprise and Investment Lawyers’ Course’ and a Visiting Lecturer in the Masters of Trade and Investment in Africa Programme at the University of Pretoria and University of Western Cape in South Africa. An SJD candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Law, he holds a Masters Degree in International Law from the University of Pittsburgh and a Specialization Certificate in International Trade Policy from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Previously, Mr. Mosoti worked as Coordinator of the International Environment and Trade Programme at the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD), and as a trainee lawyer at the Appellate Body Division of the World Trade Organization (WTO), both in Geneva, Switzerland.

He is widely published particularly on international trade law issues. Some of his publication include: International Trade Rules and the Agriculture Sector: Selected Implementation Issues, (with Gobena, A.,) FAO, Rome: 2008; Contemporary Issues in International Economic Law, (with Mwenda, K.,) Eul Verlag GmbH, Brandsberg: 2006; “Africa in the First Decade of WTO Dispute Settlement”, Journal of International Economic Law, Vol. 9, No. 2, Oxford University Press, Oxford: 2006; “Institutional Cooperation and Norm Creation in International Organizations”, in Cottier, T., Pauwelyn, J., and E. Burgi (eds.), Human Rights and the WTO, Oxford University Press, Oxford: 2005; “An Introduction to the African Convention on the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources” (with Ravalomanantsoa, L.,) IUCN Environmental Policy and Law Paper No. 56, IUCN, Gland: 2005; and “Legal Issues in the Promotion of Agricultural Trade in Eastern Europe: Regional Common Themes and Priorities in Trade Facilitation”, Columbia Journal of East European Law: Fall 2004.

Dr. Nagla Rizk

Dr. Rizk is Associate Professor of Economics at the American University in Cairo. She lectures and conducts research on the knowledge economy, its relation to economic theory and to human development, with special emphasis on the realities of developing countries, implications, potential and challenges involved. Of particular interest is the role of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) as a driver for economic development. She has done extensive work on the assessment of e-readiness of small and medium enterprises in Egypt and the potential of ICTs for empowering and raising the productivity of firms in the digital economy. She is presently working on issues related to the economics of Access to knowledge (A2K), intellectual property and economic development.

Her current research projects focus on Egypt’s open source software and on copyright in the Arab music industry. She is also working on a macroeconomic study of Information Technology and Economic Growth in Egypt and the Middle East. She has served as Chair of the Economics Department of the American University in Cairo, research advisor on Egypt’s E-readiness at the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, and is currently the Leader of Egypt’s research team within the Research in Africa Network working on ICT for Development, affiliated with the International Development Research Centre (IDRC of Canada). She received her PhD from McMaster University in Canada, and has also taught at the University of Toronto.

Additional biographical and other information including the courses that she teaches is available at the AUC website at http://www1.aucegypt.edu/academic/economics/NaglaRizk.htm.

Martin Watson

Mr. Watson, a UK national, is a senior executive and consultant in the government and NGO sector specialising in communications and advocacy. For more than 15 years, he has been closely involved in issues sorrounding international development and trade including work with African and least-developed countries at the UN and the WTO. Mr. Watson currently works in Brussels for the European Council on Refugees and Exiles as the Head of Communications and Advocacy.

After completing a  Master’s Degree in European Studies from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, he joined the European Commission in Brussels. At DG for External Economic Relations he managed the EU’s programme of political and business delegations with South East Asia. Specialising in international development, he has subsequently worked with various leading non-governmental organisations and also completed another Master’s in Humanitarian Aid at the Ruhr-Universitat Bochum. Between 2004 and 2007 Mr. Watson worked at the Quakers United Nations Office in Geneva where he focused on trade and development. He was then, in 2007, recruited by the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) to upgrade their outreach and communications activities. He left Geneva in early 2009 to join the European Council on Refugees and Exiles.

Throughout his career, Mr. Watson has successfully combined a strong communications dimension to senior management, research and project implementation. Maried with two daughters, he has lived in Austria, Belgium, Switzerland, the UK and the United States of America.