Academic members
Professor Graeme Dinwoodie
Director of the Centre
Graeme Dinwoodie holds the Chair in Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law at the University of Oxford. Prior to taking up the IP Chair at Oxford, he was the Professor of Law and Director of the Program in Intellectual Property Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law, and he also held a Chair in Intellectual Property Law at Queen Mary College, University of London. Professor Dinwoodie is also a Fellow at St Peter's College. Faculty Profile
Professor Christine Greenhalgh
Christine Greenhalgh is the Economics Research Director of the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre. She is also Professor of Applied Economics (Emeritus Faculty) at the Department of Economics, and an Emeritus Fellow at St Peter’s College. Although recently retired from teaching at Oxford, she is continuing to participate in and co-direct a number of research projects. Professor Greenhalgh undertakes research in the field of the economics of innovation, intellectual property (IP) and technological change. Her work has included studies of the ownership and value of IP assets in small and large UK firms operating in both the manufacturing and services sectors. Department Profile
Dr Carolyn Deere-Birkbeck
Carolyn Deere-Birkbeck is a Senior Researcher and Trade Project Director for the Global Economic Governance Programme at the Department of Politics. She is also a Research Scholar at University College. Her research interests include global trade governance, global political economy of intellectual property law and policy, global governance of knowledge and political economy of international trade and sustainable development. Department Website
Dr Roya Ghafele
Dr. Ghafele is a Research Fellow at the Novak Druce Centre for
Professional Services Firms situated within the Said Business School. She also runs consulting firm, Oxfirst Ltd, which advises on economics of innovation.
From 2002 to 2007 she worked as an Economist with the United Nation’s World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). In this role she offered strategic advice on Intellectual Property, Trade and Innovation to Governments in Europe, Asia and the Middle East. In 2000 she started her career with the management consulting firm McKinsey & Company, where she moved from a five year long experience as a ballet dancer.
Dr Ghafele was trained at Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies, the Sorbonne and Vienna University. Her Ph.D. on ‘Globalization, Francophone Africa and the WTO’ was awarded the Theodor Koerner Research Prize by the President of the Republic of Austria. During the course of her studies she was four times awarded the Vienna University Grant for Excellence in Studies.She is fluent in German, English, French, Italian and Persian. Department Website
Lord Hoffmann
Lord Hoffmann is currently Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Law following his retirement as a Law Lord in April 2009. He teaches on the final year undergraduate course on Patents.
Dr Emily Hudson
Dr Hudson joined the Fauclty of Law in January 2012 as Career Development Fellow in Intellectual Property (with association with St Peter's College). Website
Javier Lezaun
Javier Lezaun is James Martin Lecturer in Science and Technology Governance and Deputy Director of the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society (InSIS). He currently directs BioProperty, an ERC-funded research project on property rights in the life sciencest. Website
Professor Viktor Mayer-Shönberger
Viktor Mayer-Shönberger is the Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation at the Oxford Internet Institute. He is also a Fellow at Keble College. Website
Professor Ansgar Ohly
Ansgar Ohly is a Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Law. He holds a Chair in civil law, intellectual property and competition law at the University of Munich.. His fields of research are all areas of intellectual property law, unfair competition law and the law of privacy and publicity, with a special focus on European harmonisation and on the comparison between civil law and common law systems. Website
Dr Justine Pila
Justine Pila is the University Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law at the Faculty of Law and an Official Fellow of St Catherine’s College. She is also Senior Law Tutor at St Catherine’s College. She works in Intellectual Property Law, focusing particularly on Copyright and Patents, and is the author of The Requirement for an Invention in Patent Law (Oxford: OUP, 2010). Faculty Profile
Dr Robert Pitkethly
Robert Pitkethly is an Official Fellow and Tutor of Management at St Peter’s College, a member of the Faculty of Management and a UK and European Patent Attornery. His current research interests bridge the fields of strategic management and intellectual property and include managerial aspects of intellectual property policy. Personal Website
Past OIPRC Directors
Dr. Justine Pila, Interim Director 2007-2009
Professor Christine Greenhalgh, Economics Research Director 2007-2009
Professor David Vaver, Director 1998 - 2007
Professor Peter Hayward, Founding Director
