Antony Taubman

Director

WTO IP Division

Antony Taubman is Director of the WTO’s Intellectual Property, Government Procurement and Competition Division. He formerly directed the Global Intellectual Property Issues Division of WIPO (including the Traditional Knowledge Division and Life Sciences Programme), covering IP and genetic resources, traditional knowledge and folklore, the life sciences, and related global issues including public health and climate, the environment, climate change, human rights, food security, bioethics and indigenous issues. He earlier held appointments in the Australian diplomatic service and worked in private practice as a patent attorney, and he has held a number of academic and teaching positions. He has published widely on international IP law and policy, and cognate policy and legal questions. His educational background encompasses law, international relations, computer science, mathematics, philosophy, classical Greek and theology.

Kevin Galinsky

Associate Director, Quantitative Sciences

Takeda

Tala Fakhouri

Associate Director for Policy Analysis

FDA

Lyndsey Meyer

Principal Scientist

Pfizer

Kristin Bennett

Professor of Mathematical Sciences

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Vishwa Kolla

Associate Director, Advanced Analytics

Takeda

Rashid Attar

Head of Engineering, Cloud/Edge AI Inference Accelerators

Qualcomm

Rashid Attar joined Qualcomm, San Deigo, CA, USA, and has involved in various aspects CDMA wireless data (EV-DO) and voice systems (IS-95, 1x-Advanced) in 1996, where he was the Project Engineer of CDMA2000-advanced from 2009 to 2013 and CDMA Modem Systems Lead at QCT from 20 through 2013. From 2014 to mid-2016, he led the ultra-low-power ASIC platform project. He is currently a Vice President Engineering with Corporate Research and Development, Qualcomm. He leads the ASIC and Hardware Department in Qualcomm Research. The Qualcomm Research portfolio consists of Communications (5G, Cellular V2X, Satellite Communications, Wi-Fi, and Industrial Internet of Things), ASIC and HW Research and Development, and Embedded IoE systems (Always on computer vision, Autonomous Driving, Robotics, and AR/VR). The ASIC and Hardware Group Research and Development portfolio consists of 5G (RFICs, PAs, Interfaces, Packaging), processors (CPUs, Programmable deep learning accelerators), ultra-low-power platform (processor, communications, memory, machine learning accelerators, power management, wireless charging), core CMOS Research and Development (3-DIC and Thermal-aware designs), and Antenna Design. He holds approximately 160 granted U.S. patents