Access to Knowledge in Egypt: New Research on Intellectual Property, Innovation and Development

Dr Nagla Rizk is Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research, Founding Director of the Access to Knowledge for Development Center (A2K4D) and Associate Professor of Economics at the School of Business, the American University in Cairo. Her area of research is the economics of knowledge, information technology and development, with focus on business models in the digital economy, intellectual property and human development. She is a founding member of the Access to Knowledge Global Academy in collaboration with the Information Society Project at Yale Law School and partners from Brazil, China, India, South Africa and the United States. She is an affiliated fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School, member of the Advisory Board of IQsensato international research and policy think tank, and member of the board of the Genero Initiative for copyright. Rizk served as Chair of the Economics Department at AUC, taught at the University of Toronto and served as research advisor for Egypt's E-readiness project at the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology. She received her PhD in economics from McMaster University in Canada, and her MA and BA in economics from AUC.

Lea Shaver has a BA in sociology and a Masters in human rights and development from the University of Chicago. She received her J.D. from Yale Law School, where she served as both submissions and articles editor of the Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal. She was a Fulbright Scholar in South Africa at the University of Witwatersrand Law School's Centre for Applied Legal Studies. Shaver returned to Yale Law School as an Associate Research Scholar and Lecturer in Law. There she served as a resident fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School and directed a research program in Access to Knowledge. In the autumn 2010, Shaver joined the faculty of Hofstra Law School as an Associate Professor. Shaver's principal research interests include international intellectual property, law and technology, and human rights. Her work has been published in the Wisconsin Law Review, the Wisconsin International Law Journal and the Washington University Global Legal Studies Review, among other academic journals. Shaver is the editor of Access to Knowledge in Brazil: New Research on Intellectual Property, Innovation and Development and the co-editor of Access to Knowledge in Egypt: New Research on Intellectual Property, Innovation and Development