Geographical Indication (GI) options for Ethiopian Coffee and Ghanaian Cocoa

About the Contributors
Gino Cocchiaro is a lawyer with Natural Justice: Lawyers for Communities and
the Environment, Cape Town, and a former Legal Researcher at the International
Development Law Organisation (IDLO), Rome. gino@naturaljustice.org
Dr Tesh Dagne is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Law, Thompson Rivers
University, Kamloops, B.C., Canada. tdagne@tru.ca
Fernando dos Santos is Director-General of the African Regional Intellectual
Property Organisation (ARIPO), Harare, a Tutor at the World Intellectual
Property Organisation (WIPO) Worldwide Academy, Geneva, a former Lecturer
in Law at Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM) and the Technical University
of Mozambique, Maputo, and former Director-General of the Mozambican
Industrial Property Institute (IPI). fsantos@aripo.org
Kristen Holman is a JD candidate in the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa.
kristen. holman@gmail.com
Dr Dick Kawooya is an Assistant Professor in the School of Library and
Information Science, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, and former
Lead Researcher of the African Copyright and Access to Knowledge (ACA2K)
Project. He is an editor of Access to Knowledge in Africa: The Role of Copyright,
(UCT Press, 2010). kawooya@sc.edu
Johan Lorenzen is an LLB candidate at the University of Cape Town (UCT)
and a former consultant with Natural Justice: Lawyers for Communities and the
Environment. yolorenz@gmail.com
Dr Bernard Maister is a Senior Research Fellow in the IP Unit, Faculty of Law,
University of Cape Town (UCT), practised as an IP (patent) lawyer in the US, and
is one of the authors of Harnessing Intellectual Property Rights for Development
Objectives (Wolf Legal, 2011). maisterb@gmail.com
Dr Ikechi Mgbeoji is an Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, York
University, Toronto, and a lawyer with Blackfriars LLP, Lagos. His authored books
include Global Biopiracy (UBC Press, 2006). ikechimgbeoji@osgoode.yorku.ca
Dr Caroline Ncube is an Associate Professor, and Deputy Director of the IP
Unit, in the Faculty of Law, University of Cape Town (UCT), and lectures in the
Master of IP programme of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO)
and African Regional Intellectual Property Organisation (ARIPO) at Africa
University, Mutare, Zimbabwe. caroline.ncube@uct.ac.za
Dr Marisella Ouma is Executive Director of the Kenya Copyright Board
(KECOBO), Nairobi, an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya, has taught IP
Law at the University of Nairobi, and lectures in the Master of IP programme
of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) and African Regional
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