Appendix B
Biographies of Committee Members
RUTH L. OKEDIJI (CO-CHAIR)
Ruth L. Okediji is Jeremiah Smith Jr. professor of law at Harvard Law School and co-director of Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. She is an expert in intellectual property law, innovation policy, and digital copyright. A foremost authority on the role of intellectual property in economic development, Professor Okediji has advised intergovernmental organizations, regional economic communities, and national governments on the effect of global intellectual property rules on innovation policy and social welfare. She served on the National Academies’ Committee on the Impact of Copyright Policy on Innovation in the Digital Era (2010–2013). Professor Okediji is a graduate of the University of Jos and Harvard Law School.
DONALD SIEGEL (CO-CHAIR)
Donald Siegel is Foundation Professor of Public Policy and Management and director of the School of Public Affairs at Arizona State University. He has written extensively on the managerial and public policy implications of technology transfer and academic entrepreneurship and has served as an editor of the Journal of Technology Transfer since 2002. From 2008 to 2016, he was dean of the School of Business at the University at Albany. Dr. Siegel previously chaired the National Academies’ Committee on Best Practice in National Innovation Programs from Flexible Electronics (2010–2014) and was a member of the Committee on Capitalizing on Science, Technology, and Innovation from 2009 to 2016. In 2016, he was elected a fellow of the Academy of Management (AOM) and in 2020 was elected dean of the AOM fellows. Dr. Siegel holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and master’s and doctoral degrees in business economics from Columbia University.
MARGO A. BAGLEY
Margo A. Bagley is Asa Griggs Candler professor of law at Emory University School of Law. She rejoined the Emory faculty in 2016 after a decade at the University of Virginia School of Law, where she was most recently Hardy Cross Dillard professor of law. Her scholarship focus includes issues relating to patents, biotechnology, and technology transfer. Professor Bagley helped develop Technological Innovation: Generating Economic Results (TI:GER), a technology commercialization education program, which is a collaboration between Emory University and the Georgia Institute of Technology. She served on the National Academies’ Committee on University Management of Intellectual Property: Lessons from a Generation of Experience, Research, and Dialogue (2008–2011), as well as on the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity’s Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Digital Sequence Information on Genetic Resources (2018). She holds a B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and worked in research and development for both the Procter & Gamble Company and the Coca-Cola Company. She is a co-inventor on a U.S. patent for reduced-fat peanut butter and also held research internships at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, AT&T Bell Laboratories, and the NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) Marshall Space Flight Center. She practiced law with Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP; and Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP. Professor Bagley received a J.D. in 1996 from Emory University, where she was a Robert W. Woodruff fellow and was elected to the Order of the Coif.
MARY BETH CAMPBELL
Mary Beth Campbell is director of corporate partnerships at Caltech’s Office of Technology Transfer and Corporate Partnerships, where she is responsible for developing and implementing Caltech’s industry engagement and research partnership strategies. At Caltech, she has worked with inventors to understand and evaluate the commercial potential of inventions; she has also participated in patent decisions, and formulated and negotiated license agreements with startups and established companies. Prior to joining Caltech, Dr. Campbell was a research staff member at the Science and Technology Policy Institute, where she managed a team of researchers studying technology transfer practices at U.S. federal laboratories. Their findings were used to inform policy decisions by federal interagency working groups and informed the October 2011 presidential memorandum “Accelerating Technology Transfer and Commercialization of Federal Research in Support of High-Growth Businesses.” Prior to working at the institute, Dr. Campbell was a senior acquisition analyst with the Department of Defense and participated in the creation of a small office to perform analyses around portfolio management, competition within the defense industrial base, and metrics development. Dr. Campbell holds a Ph.D. in applied physics from Harvard University.
WESLEY M. COHEN
Wesley M. Cohen is professor of economics and management and Snow Family professor of business administration in the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. He also holds secondary appointments in Duke’s Department of Economics and School of Law, is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and is founding faculty director of the Fuqua School’s Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. With a research focus on the economics of technological change and research and development, Dr. Cohen has examined the determinants of innovative activity and performance, considering the roles of firm size; market structure; firm learning; knowledge flows; university research; and the means that firms use to protect their intellectual property, with a particular focus on patents. He served on the National Academies’ Committee on Management of University Intellectual Property (2008–2011), Panel to Review Research and Development Statistics at the National Science Foundation (2003–2004), and Committee on Intellectual Property Rights in the Knowledge-Based Economy (2000–2004). Dr. Cohen is a magna cum laude graduate of Yale University and holds a Ph.D. in economics, also from Yale University.
MARK S. KAMLET
Mark S. Kamlet is university professor of economics and public policy and provost emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University, with joint appointments in the Department of Social and Decision Sciences in the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy. He has served on the National Academies’ Committee on Poison Prevention and Control, 2003–2004; Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, 2002–2006; and Committee on Management of University Intellectual Property, 2008–2011. Dr. Kamlet is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He earned a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Stanford University and holds master’s degrees in mathematical statistics and economics, and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley.
ARTI RAI
Arti Rai, Elvin R. Latty professor of law and the founding faculty director of the Center for Innovation Policy at Duke University School of Law, is an internationally recognized expert in intellectual property law, innovation policy, administrative law, and health law. Her current research focuses on incentives and pricing in life sciences innovation. From 2009 to 2010, Professor Rai led the Office of Policy and International Affairs at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. She has also served on the National Academies’ Committee on Understanding the Global Public Health Implications of Substandard, Falsified, and Counterfeit Medical Products (2012–2013) and Committee on
Strategies for Responsible Sharing of Clinical Trial Data (2013–2015), in addition to reviewing reports for other committees. Professor Rai graduated from Harvard College, magna cum laude, with a degree in biochemistry and history (history and science); attended Harvard Medical School for the 1987–1988 academic year; and earned a J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1991.
JOEL WALDFOGEL
Joel Waldfogel is associate dean of M.B.A. and M.S. programs and Frederick R. Kappel chair in applied economics, strategic management, and entrepreneurship at the Carlson School of Management of the University of Minnesota; an affiliated faculty member in the economics department and the law school; and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. His main research interests are industrial organization and law and economics, and he has conducted empirical studies of price advertising; media markets; the operation of differentiated product markets; and issues related to digital products, including piracy, pricing, revenue sharing, and the value of new products. Dr. Waldfogel previously served on the National Academies’ Committee to Improve Research Information and Data on Firearms (2001–2005) and Committee on the Impact of Copyright Policy on Innovation in the Digital Era (2010–2013). He holds a B.A. in economics from Brandeis University and a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University.
JOHN WILBANKS
John T. Wilbanks is chief commons officer at Sage Bionetworks, where he promotes the use of technology to pool medical data, creating a commons where information is integrated and accessible. He is also a senior fellow at FasterCures and founder at Consent to Research. Mr. Wilbanks cofounded the Access to Research campaign, which resulted in increased accessibility to results of federally funded scientific research, and he started a bioinformatics company called Incellico, which became a part of Selventa in 2003. He served as a senior fellow at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and was a senior advisor for big data to the National Coordination Office. Mr. Wilbanks has past affiliations with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Project on Mathematics and Computation, which hosts Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that enables knowledge sharing through free legal tools. He has also worked with Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, the World Wide Web Consortium, the U.S. House of Representatives, and Creative Commons. Mr. Wilbanks holds a B.A. in philosophy from Tulane University and studied modern letters at the Sorbonne.
JETTA WONG
Jetta Wong is president of JLW Advising, where she advises clients on how to bring new clean-energy technologies to the market. She works with laboratories, universities, and other innovation organizations to develop policies and programs focused on U.S. competitiveness and the commercialization of technologies that reduce carbon emissions. Ms. Wong is also a senior fellow in the Clean Energy Innovation Policy Program for the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation. From 2012 to 2016, she worked at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), where she established and served as the first director of the Office of Technology Transitions (OTT). Before her work with OTT, Ms. Wong served in the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, where she worked on clean energy manufacturing and led the office’s National Laboratory Impact Initiative. While at DOE, she co-chaired the White House National Science and Technology Council’s Lab-to-Market initiative, focused on creating economic impact from federally funded research and development. Ms. Wong has also worked for the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, where she helped establish and oversee energy and environment programs of the federal government. Prior to working for Congress, she worked for the Clean Energy Program of the Union of Concerned Scientists and the Environmental and Energy Study Institute. Ms. Wong’s career in energy started in Uzbekistan, where she was a natural resources consultant on an anaerobic digestion development project. Ms. Wong holds a B.S. in natural resources and the environment from the University of Michigan and an M.P.S. in legislative affairs from The George Washington University.
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