Innova-P2
The Innova-P2 project is funded by the European Commission Directorate on Science, Economy and Society under its Framework 7 Programme. The project unites an international and interdisciplinary team devoted to advancing a realistic, theoretically sophisticated plan for reforming the intellectual property rights system for pharmaceuticals. Innova-P2 establishes a partnership to work on these issues with the Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), a leading Indian think tank, and the Chinese Academy of Science and Technology for Development (CASTED), the advisory body to the Chinese Ministry of Science on intellectual property-rights issues.
Innova-P2 Members
Thomas Pogge, Project Coordinator
Miltos Ladikas, Project Coordinator
Julie Cook Lucas, Project Coordinator
Arjun Sengupta, RIS
Nagesh Kumar, RIS
Sachin Chaturvedi, RIS
Zhiqian Gao, CASTED
Lifeng Guo, CASTED
Zhe Li, CASTED
Peter Singer, CAPPE
Doris Schroeder, CAPPE
Veronique Fournier, Centre d'éthique clinique at Hôpital Cochin
Fatima Alvarez Castillo, University of the Philippines
Lynn Frewer, Wageningen University
David Coles, Wageningen University
Joseph Stiglitz, External Advisor
Tikki Pang, External Advisor
Klaus Leisinger, External Advisor
Roger Chennells, External Advisor
Matthew Rimmer, External Advisor
James Orbinski, External Advisor
Gorik Ooms, External Advisor
Having received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard University, Thomas Pogge writes and teaches on moral and political philosophy and Kant. His recent publications include John Rawls: His Life and Theory of Justice, Oxford 2007; Freedom from Poverty as a Human Right, edited, Oxford 2007; Global Institutions and Responsibilities, edited with Christian Barry,
Blackwell 2005; Real World Justice, edited with Andreas Follesdal, Springer 2005; World Poverty and Human Rights, Polity 2002; and Global Justice, edited, Blackwell 2001. Pogge is editor for social and political philosophy for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science.
His work was supported, most recently, by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, All Souls College (Oxford), the National Institutes of Health (Bethesda), the Australian Research Council, and the BUPA Foundation.
He is currently Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs at Yale University, Professorial Fellow at the ANU Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE), and Research Director at the Oslo University Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature (CSMN).
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Miltos Ladikas was educated in Greece and Britain where he received his PhD in Social Psychology from the London School of Economics. Miltos has held research positions in Britain and Germany and has coordinated various international projects that deal with science policy, technology assessment and public perceptions research.
He has undertaken missions as UNESCO International Policy Expert and is a member of the International Scientific Council of Action Against Hunger. Miltos is currently the International Development Officer at the Centre for Professional Ethics, University of Central Lancashire, UK.
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Julie Cook Lucas was educated in the UK. She has worked within the National Health Service, and for a range of NGOs, specializing in women’s health issues. She has a particular interest in user involvement in the development and delivery of health services, and also in issues around academia and activism. Julie is currently a Research Associate at the University of Central Lancashire.
Chairman of the Research and Information System for Developing Countries in India is only one of the many high-profile roles of Professor Arjun Sengupta. His main interest, as a distinguished economist who advises the UN and the Indian government, is in the area of human rights, in particular the human right to development. Professor Sengupta has held numerous positions of high office in the government of India, which makes him an ideal partner to lead the reality check for the Patent-2 scheme.
Professor Zhiqian Gao, of the Chinese Academy of Science and Technology for Development, has studied economics at the People University of China and has published widely in the area of intellectual property rights and development.
Dr. Lifeng Guo studied Law and Economics. She joined the Chinese Academy of Science and Technology for Development in 2002 as a specialist in the area of International Trade and Intellectual Property Rights (IPR). She has worked in several advisory projects on the themes of Trade, IPR and High-Tech production for the Ministry of Science and Technology and the State Intellectual Property Office of China.
Dr. Zhe Li studied environmental sciences and joined the Chinese Academy of Science and Technology for Development in 2005 as a specialist in Technology Transfer and Risk Evaluation. His project portfolio for the Ministry of Science and Technology focuses mainly on Technology Transfer, Intellectual Property and Monopolies, and Technology Barriers to Trade.
Peter Singer is Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. He first became well-known internationally after the publication of Animal Liberation. His other books include: Practical Ethics; The Expanding Circle; How Are We to Live?, Rethinking Life and Death, One World, Pushing Time Away, The President of Good and Evil, and The Ethics of What We Eat (with Jim Mason). He co-founded The Great Ape Project with Paola Cavalieri, and is currently president of Animal Rights International. In 2005 Time named him one of the world's 100 most influential people.
Professor Doris Schroeder was educated in Germany and England in economics, politics and philosophy. She is Head of the Centre for Professional Ethics at the University of Central Lancashire, UK and Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne. Her main research interests are benefit sharing and human rights & health.
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Dr. Veronique Fournier, a cardiologist with a PhD in Public Health, has been the Director of the Centre Centre d'éthique clinique at Hôpital Cochin in Paris since its inception in 2002. She worked for Médicins du Monde in Cambodia, Burma and Vietnam and co-ordinated humanitarian projects on Aids, medical education and hospital planning in South East Asia, Rumania, Algeria and Africa. From 1998 to 2002, she worked as an advisor to the Minister of Health, Bernard Kouchner (founder of Médicins sans Frontières and Médicins du Monde). During that time, Kouchner also delegated her to investigate United States procedures regarding clinical ethics in order to potentially apply them in France.
Professor Fatima Castillo holds a Chair in social sciences at the University of the Philippines. She works with NGOs and communities advocating issues of social justice and respect for human rights. As a distinguished professor she was given the award “Most Outstanding in Research and Publication” in 2006 and 2007. Most of her recent research is in the area of gender studies and women’s rights.
David Coles (Wageningen University)
Dr. David Coles has a background in chemistry, physiology, risk analysis and ethics. From 2002 to 2006 he worked in the European Commission’s DG Research, developing and implementing the EU system of ethical review for research proposals. He also contributed to EU policy development on ethics. After leaving the Commission, he set up a consultancy company (Enhance International Limited), reviewing and providing advice on ethical aspects of scientific research. Before joining the EC as a secondee from the UK Department of Health, David was an assistant director at the UK Office of Science and Technology responsible for implementation of guidelines on use of scientific advice in policy-making, developing a code of practice for scientific advisory committees and development of government policy on public confidence in science. Earlier at the UK Department of Health he managed the establishment of the Human Genetics Commission and was its first Secretary.
Joseph Stiglitz is a Nobel laureate economist and University Professor at Columbia University. He is a former Senior Vice President and Chief Economist at the World Bank and, and was the chair of President Clinton’s Council of Economic advisors from 1995 to 1997. Professor Stiglitz has written numerous books and articles, including Globalization and Its Discontents, Fair Trade for All, and, most recently, The Three Trillion Dollar War.
James Orbinski is Associate Professor of Medicine and Political Science at the University of Toronto and a research scientist and clinician at St. Michael’s Hospital at the University of Toronto. He has worked in the field extensively for Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), including as Head of Mission in Kigali during the Rwandan genocide of 1994. Orbinski was elected MSF’s international president from 1998 to 2001. He launched its Access to Essential Medicines Campaign in 1999, and in that same year accepted the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to MSF for its pioneering approach to medical humanitarianism, and most especially for its approach to witnessing.
From 2001 to 2004 Orbinski co-chaired MSF' s Neglected Diseases Working Group, which created and launched the Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative (DNDi). The DNDi is a global not-for-profit drug development organization that develops medicines and other health technologies for diseases largely neglected by profit driven research and development companies.
Orbinski is also a founder and Board Chair of Dignitas International, a hybrid academic nongovernmental organization launched to research community-based care, prevention and treatment for people living with HIV in the developing world.
