Alica Daly Editor

Alica Daly is an experienced IP professional, currently working as a Senior Policy Officer in the Division of Artificial Intelligence Policy of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Prior to her time at WIPO, she spent ten years working at IP Australia. Her most recent position there was as its first Head of Patent Analytics. During this time, she was responsible for co-authoring a number of reports published by the Patent Analytics Hub. David Humphreys is an Honorary Lecturer at the University of Dundee, Scotland, and former Chief Economist at Norilsk Nickel and Rio Tinto. David has written and lectured extensively on the economics of the mining industry, authoring over 200 articles and papers on subjects ranging from commodity markets, trends in the mining sector, resource availability, sustainable development, Russian mining and the impact of China on mining, to national minerals policy. Julio Raffo is Head of the Innovation Economics Section at the Department for Economics and Data Analytics of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). His research interests include the economics and metrics of innovation and intellectual property, with a particular focus on their intersection with socio-economic development. Giulia Valacchi is based in the Department for Economics and Data Analytics of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Before joining WIPO, she worked for the Centre of International Environmental Studies as a Research Assistant in the Sinergia Project. Her research interests include innovation, technology diffusion, climate change and environmental economics.