Graham Dutfield is Professor of International Governance at the University of Leeds, United Kingdom. He was formerly Herchel Smith Senior Research Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London. He was also Academic Director of the UNCTAD-ICTSD Capacity-building Project on Intellectual Property Rights and Development.
Graham has authored or co-authored four books on intellectual property, genetic resources, traditional knowledge and the life science industries, and edited two others, the most recent being Innovations Without Patents (with Suthersanen & Chow). He was also the lead author of Intellectual Property Rights: Implications for Development, which was published by ICTSD and UNCTAD. He is currently writing two books: Global Intellectual Property Law with Uma Suthersanen, and Playing God. His current research interests include: biodiversity conservation, sustainable use and benefit sharing; biotechnology, genomics and the patent system; biotechnology regulation and governance; history of patent law and the life science industries; indigenous peoples? rights; innovation and creativity in law, economics, philosophy and history; intellectual property and human rights; IP and sustainable development; IP and genetic resources, traditional knowledge and folklore; patent law; IP and agriculure; and the politics of intellectual property.
He has served as consultant or commissioned report author for several governments, international organisations, United Nations agencies and non-governmental organisations. He has a DPhil from the University of Oxford.