Directors
William Fisher
Wilmer Hale Professor of Intellectual Property Law, Harvard Law School
Ruth Okediji
Jeremiah Smith, Jr., Professor, Harvard Law School
Mark Wu
Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
Fellows
Clifford Samuel
Principal at PCMS1 Consulting, advises large caps, start-ups, and NGOs on issues surrounding the access and distribution of life-saving medicines in emerging markets and low- and middle-income countries.
Collaborators
Julia Barnes-Weise
Julia Barnes-Weise (J.D., CLP) is the Executive Director of the Global Healthcare Innovation Alliances Accelerator (GHIAA)) a non-profit organization spun out of a program in Public Policy at Duke University, and a Senior Consultant to the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI).
Cherie Ramirez
Cherie Lynn Ramirez, lecturer in Biochemistry and inaugural Center for Excellence in Teaching (CET) Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics (STEM) Faculty Fellow, teaches in the Chemistry and Physics Department at the College of Arts and Sciences of Simmons College.
Rachel Sachs
Rachel Sachs is a scholar of innovation policy whose work explores the interaction of intellectual property law, food and drug regulation, and health law. Her work explores problems of innovation and access, considering how law helps or hinders these problems.
Prashant Yadav
Prashant Yadav is a globally recognized researcher, educator and policy advisor in the area of healthcare supply chains. Yadav serves on the advisory boards of many private companies and global agencies including large multilateral, bilateral and private philanthropic organizations.
Alumni
Quentin Palfrey
Quentin Palfrey is Deputy General Counsel and Acting General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Commerce. Palfrey rejoined the Department in January 2021 after previously serving as deputy general counsel for strategic initiatives during the Obama-Biden administration. Palfrey also served as a senior advisor for jobs & competitiveness in the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy from 2011-2013. Until 2021, he was one of the directors of GAiA. He continues to collaborate with the GAiA team on projects in the Philippines.
Ashveena Gajeelee
Until 2020, Ashveena Gajeelee was a Research Fellow of GAiA. She continues to collaborate with the GAiA team on projects in Africa.
Claudio Lilienfeld
For 5 years ending in 2020, Mr. Lilienfeld served as Gilead Sciences’ Senior Director, Government Affairs leading external engagement in support of Gilead’s Global Patient Solutions business unit, with a focus on Asia.
John Stubbs
Fellow at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society where he is researching transparency and international trade agreements. He is a board member of the National Foreign Trade Council Foundation, a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a member of the Krewe of Bacchus in New Orleans, Louisiana