Duncan Matthews

Professor Duncan Matthews is Director of the Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute and a member of the Centre for Commercial Law Studies. He has held academic positions as a lecturer in law at the University of Warwick and as a research fellow at the ESRC Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, also at the University of Warwick. He has worked as a researcher at a policy think-tank (the National Institute for Economic and Social Research, London) and as an EU lobbyist.

He has acted as an advisor to: Directorate General Trade of the European Commission; the ECAP II EC-ASEAN Intellectual Property Rights Co-operation Programme; the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP); the European Parliament Committee on International Trade; the European Patent Office (EPO); the UK Strategic Advisory Board for Intellectual Property Policy (SABIP); and the UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) Expert Advisory Group on Trade and Development.

He is the author of Globalising Intellectual Property Rights (Routledge, 2002), Intellectual Property, Human Rights and Development (Edward Elgar, 2011) and co-editor of the Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and the Life Sciences (Edward Elgar 2017).