About Us

Project Advisors

Michael Brown

Director, Oakley Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Williams College
Website: www.williams.edu/go/nativeMore »

Robert Layton

Professor, Anthropology Department,
University of Durham

Research key words: social evolution, art, indigenous rights More »

Peter Levesque

Principal Director
KMbW - Knowledge Mobilization Works

Website: www.knowledgemobilization.net

Robert Paterson

Professor, Faculty of Law,
University of British Columbia

Research key words: cultural property law More »

Jock Robert Langford

Independent Policy Expert
Intellectual Policy and Traditional Knowledge

Research key words:

policy, intellectual property, biotechnology, biodiversity, traditional knowledge

Jock Langford is an independent policy expert on emerging intellectual property issues. Mr Langford is formally trained as a biologist and agricultural economist. He has two decades of work experience on intellectual property, biotechnology, biodiversity and traditional knowledge issues. In the past, Mr.More »

David J. Stephenson, Jr.

Lawyer (and sole proprietor)
Rocky Mountain Thunder Law Firm, Wheat Ridge, Colorado (a suburb of Denver)

Dr. Stephenson is both a lawyer (J.D., U. of Denver College of Law 1984) and an applied sociocultural anthropologist (Ph.D., U. of Colorado 1982; M.A. 1975). He received his undergraduate education at Dartmouth College (A.B. 1972). He was a co-founder and Chair of the Rocky Mountain Human Rights Law Group. During the Winter term, 2002, and again in 2005, he was an Honorarium Professor of International Law in the Department of Political Science, University of Colorado at Denver.More »