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Rasim S. Abderrahim
Independent International Trade Specialist
Rasim S. Abderrahim is an independent International Trade
Specialist. He works on both the policy and regulatory side and the
business implementation side in International Trade. In Jordan, he
is well-known as an Opportunity Analyst of Free Trade Agreements and
the World Trade Organization’s international trading system.
Mr. Abderrahim’s general area of
work involves international trade reporting and analysis;
international trade education and capacity building; research and
development in all export disciplines; trade services development
and the management of trade information services. Mr.
Abderrahim has been a member of JIPA since its inception.
Aaron Ahuvia
Professor and Director of International Programming, University
of Michigan
Professor Ahuvia is an Associate
Professor and Director of International Programming for Europe and
Emerging Markets at the University of Michigan-Dearborn Campus,
School of Management. He first joined the University of
Michigan in 1993 where he served as Assistant Professor of Marketing
through 1999. In 2001, Dr. Ahuvia received the University of
Michigan-Dearborn Faculty Member of the Year Award for achievement
in research, teaching and service
Professor Ahuvia has published
academic research on income, materialism and happieness in leading
scientific jounrals and has published a comprehensive review of
research on the relationship between income and happiness. In
recognition of these research contributions, Professor Ahuvia serves
as Vice-President for Academic Affairs for the International Society
of Quality of Life Studies.
Professor Ahuvia earned his
Doctorate in Marketing from Northwestern University's Kellogg School
of Management in 1993.
Amjad Al-Amad
Founder and Managing Director, Trimark, Intellectual Property
Consulting
Mr. Amjad Al-Amad is the Founder and Managing director of TIRMARK,
Intellectual Property Consulting. He served as Executive Director at
Abu Ghazaleh Intellectual Property (AGIP) in Tunisia during
1996-2002, afterwards working as a Senior Intellectual Property
consultant with International Business Legal Associates. Amjad Al-Amad’s
main practice areas are in Industrial Property, Intellectual
Property Licensing and anti-piracy and domain names. He is a member
in the Arab Society for Intellectual Property (ASIP), International
Trademark Association (ITA) as well as a board member in the Jordan
Intellectual Property Association (JIPA). Amjad Al-Amad received his
BA in Finance and Banking from the University of Yarmouk.
Nancy
Dababneh
Advocate, International Business Legal Associates
Ms. Nancy Dababneh is a Partner and Head of Intellectual Property
Department of International Business Legal Associates (IBLAW), as
well as a Board member of Jordanian Intellectual Property
Association (JIPA).
Ms. Dababneh serves over 200 prominent multinational corporations as
well as local firms and joint ventures, in respect of formation of
the companies, litigating their rights, drafting contracts or
rendering legal consultations in the fields of international trade
and business transactions, foreign investment, intellectual property
rights, joint ventures, technology transfer, licensing and
franchising agreements, corporate law, commercial law,
telecommunication and privatization related work.
Ms. Dababneh participated in drafting Jordan’s package of
Intellectual Property Legislation that is enacted in conformity with
the WTO, as well as participating in a project on amending
Intellectual Property Legislation of the Palestinian National
Authority. She has also participated in analyzing the sectors of
Micro Finance and Information Technology in Jordan and in providing
analysis and recommendations for regulatory reforms in such vital
areas.
Ms. Dababneh holds a Masters
degree in Intellectual Property Law from Franklin Pierce Law Center,
in the USA, and enjoys extensive practical experience in the fields
of Intellectual Property, International Trade and Investment,
Franchising, Technology Transfers, and Corporate Law.
Yasser H. Kouatly
Assistant Vice President- Gulf Franchising Holding Co.
Yasser H. Kouatly is currently the Vice President- Gulf Franchising
Holding Co., in Kuwait. His responsibilities span from
developing and promoting a franchise portfolio consisting of five
international brands, in addiction for actively contributing to the
franchise selection committee at GFC. In April 2004, Mr.
Kouatly was nominated as a board member in the International
Franchise Association. He is also currently working towards
attaining the Certified Franchise Executive (CFE) professional
designation, offered by the International Franchise Association (IFA)-
USA. Mr. Kouatly received his B.Sc. in Business studies and his MBA
form the Lebanese American University (LAU) in Lebanon.
Michael P. Ryan, Ph.D.
Senior Consultant, International Intellectual Property Institute
(IIPI)
Assistant Professor, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown
University
Professor Michael P. Ryan began assisting the Jordanian economic
reform effort in 1998 when he was asked by USAID to draft new patent
and plant variety protection laws in support of its accession to the
World Trade Organization. In the years since he has lectured
frequently in Jordan regarding intellectual property and technology
policy and management, e.g., at the invitation of the Higher Council
for Science and Technology and the Royal Scientific Society at its
technology entrepreneurship conference and at the invitation of the
Young Entrepreneurs Association at its annual conference. In
cooperation with USAID-AMIR, the US Patent and Trademark Office, and
the International Intellectual Property Institute (Washington, DC)
he established and has lectured at the annual King Abdullah II
Intellectual Property Week conference. The IP Week conference
involves the software, info tech, pharmaceutical, and bio-medical
business communities, university researchers, government
policymakers and public administrators, and judges who settle
intellectual property-based commercial disputes. During 2003-4
Professor Ryan, funded by USAID-AMIR and the Washington-based
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, is with a
colleague assessing Jordan's pharmaceutical and bio-medical
institutional infrastructure (law, regulation and public
administration, business strategy, university research) in
cooperation with the Jordan Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association
and Jordan Intellectual Property Association. The report will be
released in August 2004 at a conference under the patronage of the
His Majesty King Abdullah II. In 2003 he lectured members of the
Ministry of Economics, Palestinian Authority, in Ramallah, West
Bank, under auspices of USAID. He, USAID, and the local authorities
have designed an intellectual property policy and economic reform
program that will be carried out when security and diplomatic
circumstances permit.
Professor Ryan, an associate research professor of policy and ethics
at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business, and a
senior consultant to the International Intellectual Property
Institute, is advising and lecturing Thailand's business,
government, university, and judicial communities in order to assist
with their national bio-medical strategy. He co-authored a report
for the university system of South Africa concerning the
commercialization of technology and the establishment of university
technology transfer offices. He has also lectured business and
policy communities in Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, China,
Croatia, the Dominican Republic, Japan, Malaysia, Peru, the
Philippines, and Singapore. His Intellectual Property Rules! Trade
Secrets, Patents, Copyrights, and Trademarks in the World Economy
will be published in fall 2004; his co-authored (with Paul Almeida)
Knowledge Strategy: Technology, Intellectual Property, and
Organization in the World Economy will be published in 2005 as will
his Knowledge Ethics: Intellectual Property and Social
Responsibilities in the World Economy. He is the author of Knowledge
Diplomacy: Global Competition and the Politics of Intellectual
Property (1998) and Playing by the Rules: American Trade Power and
Diplomacy in the Pacific (1995). He holds a PhD in political science
with concentrations in international political economy,
organization, and law from the University of Michigan, holds a
master's degree in philosophy from Ohio State University, and
previously served on the faculty of the Michigan Business School.
Sherif
Saadallah
Bureau Director, Development Cooperation and External Relations,
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
Mr. Sherif Saadallah, joined the International Bureau pf WIPO in
April 1991, as Special Assistant to the Office of the Director
General. In January 1993, he was transferred to the
Development Cooperation and External Relations Bureau for Arab
Countries, and was promoted as Bureau Head in November 1995 amd
became Bureau Director in 1997.
In December 2003, Mr. Saadahllah was promoted to Executive Director,
responsible for two departments, namely, the Economic Development
Bureau for Arab Countries and the Intellectual Property and Economic
Development Department.
Before joining the International Bureau, Mr. Saadahllah served for
eight years as a diplomat with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of
Egypt, in particular in the Permanent Mission of Egypt in Geneva.
Mr. Saadahllah has a BA in Economics and Political Science from the
American University in Cairo, Egypt, and has studied at the
Diplomatic Institute for International Studies in Cairo and at the
Institute Universitaire des Hauter Etudes Internationales in Geneve.
Mr. Saadahllah is well versed in Arabic, English, French, and
Spanish.
Tawfiq
Tabbaa
Attorney, Khalife & Partners
Mr. Tabbaa joined Khalifeh & Partners in September 2002. Mr.
Tabbaa's main specialization area is intellectual property and
commercial law, which has included intellectual property titles
registration, manageing anti-piracy/anti-counterfeiting programs for
multinational companies in Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, and
drafting all types of agreements and commerical transactions.
Prior ot joining Khalifeh & Partners, Mr. Tabbaa was for six years a
staff member of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
He commenced his career with WIPO in 1996 as a Program Office in the
Arab Bureau of WIPO and in 2000, moved to WIPO's Office in New York.
Tawfiq's Experience at WIPO included assisting Arab countries in
complying with the WTO's TRIPS Agreement and other international
intellectual property protection standards. He organized and
participated in numberous seminars on intellectual property,
arbitration and electronic commerce in Arab countries, Geneva and
New York.
Mr. Tabbaa hold an LL.M. in International Business and Trade Law
from Fordham University School of Law (2001) and an LL.B.l with
Honours from the University of London (1995). He is a member of
Jordan Bar Association.
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