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Professor Michael Blakeney is a Professor of Law at the University of Western Australia. He is also a Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property Law and is a co-director of the Queen Mary Intellectual Property Law Institute at Queen Mary, University of London. Michael has formerly worked in the Asia Pacific Bureau of the World Intellectual Property Organization and is an arbitrator with the International Court of Arbitration. Michael has worked as a consultant in the areas of access to genetic resources and biotechnological patenting. He has acted as an advisor for the Asian Development Bank, Consulting Group for International Agricultural Research, European Commission (EC), European Patent Office, Food and Agricultural Organization, World Bank, World Intellectual Property Organization and a number of university and public research institutes on areas of technology transfer and management of intellectual property.