Andrew McLaughlin is currently Head of Global Public Policy and Government Affairs for Google Inc., based in San Francisco. He is an Emeritus Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. Working at the intersection of law, politics, economics, and technology, Andrew has assisted governments, NGOs, and private sector actors to understand and analyze Internet and communications technologies; to reform their laws, policies, and regulations; and to foster favorable environments for local technology entrepreneurship. Previous positions include practicing law at Jenner & Block in Washington, D.C., and serving as Vice-President and Chief Policy Officer at ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
Suzanne Scotchmer is Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and is visiting New York University School of Law in Spring 2008. Her main academic interest at the moment is the economics, policy and law of innovation, including intellectual property. She also maintains an interest in economic theory and game theory, in which she has also published widely. Her graduate degrees are in economics and statistics. She has held visiting and teaching appointments in numerous first-rate universities across the world. She has served on the editorial boards of American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Economic Perspectives. Regional Science and Urban Economics, and Journal of Public Economics. In 2004 she published Innovation and Incentives with MIT Press.
Gustavo Ghidini is Full Professor of Intellectual Property at Milan University, and Professor of Intellectual Property and Competition Law at Luiss Guido Carli University, Rome, where he serves as Director of the Observatory for Intellectual Property, Competition, Communications Law. He is a past President (2006-2008) of ATRIP, the International Association for the Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property. He also practices law in Milan at Studio Ghidini, Girino e Associati. His latest book Intellectual Property and Competition Law. The Innovation Nexus was published by Edward Elgar in 2006.
Mike Wright is Professor of Financial Studies at Nottingham University Business School (NUBS) and Director of the Center for Management Buy-Out Research (CMBOR) which he founded in 1986. He is also a Visiting Professor at Erasmus University and the University of Siena. He is the author or editor of 50 books and has published over 275 academic papers on private equity, strategy in transition economies, corporate governance, habitual and returnee entrepreneurs, and related topics in leading international journals. His latest books include Academic Entrepreneurship in Europe (with Clarysse, Mustar and Lockett), published by Edward Elgar in 2007.
Bill Megginson is Professor and Rainbolt Chair in Finance at the University of Oklahoma’s Michael F. Price College of Business. He is also a voting member of the Italian Ministry of Economics and Finance’s Global Advisory Committee on Privatization and Executive Director of the Privatization Barometer. Additionally, he is serving as the Fulbright Tocqueville Distinguished Chair in American Studies at the University of Paris–Dauphine during Spring 2008. Professor Megginson's research interest has focused in recent years on the privatization of state-owned enterprises, especially those privatizations executed through public share offerings. Prior to entering academia in 1986, he worked for five years as a petroleum chemist at the world's largest styrene monomer plant and at the largest independent petroleum refinery in the United States.Registration for the conference is free but required by 7 April 2008: please click here.
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