Ruth Okediji is the Jeremiah Smith, Jr., Professor of Law at Harvard Law School (HLS), Co-Director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, and Faculty Director of the HLS Program on Biblical Law and Christian Legal Studies. A renowned scholar in international intellectual property (IP) law and a foremost authority on the role of IP in social and economic development, Professor Okediji has advised inter-governmental organizations, regional economic communities, and national governments on a range of matters related to technology, innovation policy, and development. Her widely cited scholarship on IP and development has influenced government policies in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, and South America. Her ideas have helped shape national strategies for the implementation of the WTO’s Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS Agreement). She works closely with several United Nations agencies, research centers, and international organizations on the human development effects of international IP policy, including access to knowledge, access to essential medicines and issues related to indigenous innovation systems. She is a graduate of the University of Jos (LLB) and Harvard Law School (LLM, SJD).

William (“Terry”) Fisher is the WilmerHale Professor of Intellectual Property Law at Harvard Law School and Faculty Director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. He has taught at Harvard Law School since 1984. Prior to this, he served as a law clerk to Judge Harry T. Edwards of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and then to Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court. Professor Fisher received his undergraduate degree (in American Studies) from Amherst College and his graduate degrees (JD and PhD in the History of American Civilization) from Harvard University. His academic honors include a Danforth Postbaccalaureate Fellowship (1978-1982) and a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University (1992-1993).

Mr. Felcman joined Harvard Law School in 2022 as a Consultant for the Voluntary Licensing and Access to Medicines (VLAM) project. Previously, he was the Chief Executive Officer of a boutique consulting firm specializing in the delivery of technical assistance and software development projects in the countries of the Global South on behalf of the World Bank, the European Union, and other aid donors. From 2005 to 2014, he was a Project Manager and Associate Director of the IP and Development Program at the University of Minnesota Law School, where he oversaw the implementation of advisory and training projects in the areas of intellectual property law, competition law, international trade law, and regional economic integration. He holds degrees in law, economics, and computer science from the University of Minnesota Law School, the University of Oklahoma, and the University of London.

Kike Aluko Wahutu is an Associate Attorney in the Entertainment Group at Greenberg Traurig, LLP, and Chair of the Advisory Board of the African Creative Economies (ACE) Initiative. She has expertise in a diverse range of transactions within the entertainment industry, particularly music licensing in connection with digital, film and television, sports and marketing initiatives, as well as the representation of creative talent. She holds a JD/MBA from Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School, and a BA from Stanford University. As a classically trained musician, and with prior experience at the Nigerian Copyright Commission, Spotify, and several other entertainment companies, Kike brings a variety of valuable perspectives to her practice that provide her with a unique understanding of the creative, strategic and business issues facing the music industry.

Gus Udo is a seasoned global financial leader, bridging the gap between finance, business, and culture. He has successfully launched and is currently scaling two innovative ventures: 54 Projects, an alternative investment firm, and Digital Markets Global, a pioneering auction platform for alternative assets. A key contributor to the financial landscape, Mr. Udo, facilitated over $7.3 billion in supply chain finance auctions for Airbus suppliers, a groundbreaking initiative that opened new investment opportunities for institutional investors. He also played a pivotal role in creating over $30 billion in innovative debt instruments for emerging markets, notably helping Nigeria retire around $4 billion in promissory note debt. Mr. Udo's career is marked by numerous firsts: he co-managed the first offshore Nigeria country fund (an inaugural investor in The Nigerian Stock Exchange’s Central Securities Clearing System) and pioneered cross-border trade receivables securitization in France. He also uniquely enabled the separate trading of interest and principal for Brady bonds, significantly enhancing liquidity and risk management for investors. Beyond his professional accomplishments, Mr. Udo is a writer, having authored six books, including a children's book. His academic and professional work has been cited in leading scholarly journals and publications. Mr. Udo began his career as a financial analyst at Shearson Lehman Brothers in New York. He holds degrees from Harvard College and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

Gus Udo is a seasoned global financial leader, bridging the gap between finance, business, and culture. He has successfully launched and is currently scaling two innovative ventures: 54 Projects, an alternative investment firm, and Digital Markets Global, a pioneering auction platform for alternative assets. A key contributor to the financial landscape, Mr. Udo, facilitated over $7.3 billion in supply chain finance auctions for Airbus suppliers, a groundbreaking initiative that opened new investment opportunities for institutional investors. He also played a pivotal role in creating over $30 billion in innovative debt instruments for emerging markets, notably helping Nigeria retire around $4 billion in promissory note debt. Mr. Udo's career is marked by numerous firsts: he co-managed the first offshore Nigeria country fund (an inaugural investor in The Nigerian Stock Exchange’s Central Securities Clearing System) and pioneered cross-border trade receivables securitization in France. He also uniquely enabled the separate trading of interest and principal for Brady bonds, significantly enhancing liquidity and risk management for investors. Beyond his professional accomplishments, Mr. Udo is a writer, having authored six books, including a children's book. His academic and professional work has been cited in leading scholarly journals and publications. Mr. Udo began his career as a financial analyst at Shearson Lehman Brothers in New York. He holds degrees from Harvard College and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

Dr. Hermioni Amonoo is the Carol C. Nadelson, MD Endowed Chair in Psychiatry at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH). She is a physician-scientist and Director of the Wellbeing and Cancer Research Program in the Department of Psychiatry at BWH. Her program of research aims to understand the wellbeing needs of vulnerable cancer populations to develop innovative and practical psychological and digital therapeutics for patients with cancer and their caregivers. Dr. Amonoo’s research has been consistently funded by Harvard Medical School, the Harvard Catalyst, the Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Brigham Research Institute, the National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institute of Health (NIH), the Oppenheimer Family Foundation, Doris Duke Foundation, the American Society for Hematology, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She is a graduate of the Harvard Medical School (MD), the Harvard Kennedy School of Government (MPP), the Massachusetts General Hospital Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program and the BWH/DFCI Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry/Psychosocial Oncology Fellowship Training Program.

Elchi Nowrojee is a Managing Director in the Carlyle Insurance Solutions Group in New York. Prior to joining Carlyle, he was a Director and Counsel at Credit Suisse from 2006 to 2014, where he served as head of Alternative Investments Legal for the Americas. Prior to joining Credit Suisse, he worked at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, LLP, an international law firm. Mr. Nowrojee received his JD from Harvard Law School, an MPhil in International Relations from Oxford University, and a BA from Yale College.

David B. Wilkins is the Lester Kissel Professor of Law, Vice Dean for Global Initiatives on the Legal Profession, and Faculty Director of the Center on the Legal Profession at Harvard Law School. He is also a Senior Research Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a Fellow of the Harvard University Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics.Professor Wilkins has written over 80 articles on the legal profession in leading scholarly journals and the popular press and is the co-author (along with his Harvard Law School colleague Andrew Kaufman) of one of the leading casebooks in the field.  His current scholarly projects include Globalization, Lawyers, and Emerging Economies (where he directs over 50 researchers studying the impact of globalization on the market for legal services in rapidly developing countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe); After the JD (a ten-year nationwide longitudinal study of lawyers’ careers); The Harvard Law School Career Study (examining, among other things, differences in the experiences of male and female graduates and the careers of lawyers who do not practice law); and The New Social Engineers (charting the historical development and current experiences of black lawyers in corporate law practice).Professor Wilkins teaches several courses on lawyering, including The Legal Profession, Legal Education for the Twenty-First Century, and Challenges of a General Counsel. In 2007, he co-founded Harvard Law School’s Executive Education Program, where he teaches in several courses including Leadership in Law Firms and Leadership in Corporate Counsel. He holds a BA from Harvard College and a JD from Harvard Law School.

Jacob K. Olupona is Professor of African Religious Traditions at the Harvard Divinity School, with a joint appointment as Professor of African and African American Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He is a distinguished scholar of indigenous African religions. His current research focuses on the religious practices of the estimated one million Africans who have emigrated to the United States over the last 40 years, examining in particular several populations that remain relatively invisible in the American religious landscape. Professor Olupona has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Philosophical Society, the Ford Foundation, the Davis Humanities Institute, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, and the Getty Foundation. He has served on the editorial boards of three influential journals and as president of the African Association for the Study of Religion. In 2000, Professor Olupona received an honorary doctorate in divinity from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, and in 2007 he received the Nigerian National Order of Merit. In 2018 he received the Martin E. Marty Award for the Public Understanding of Religion. He holds a BA from the University of Nigeria, and a PhD from Boston University.