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Yemen's Uncertain Future Threatens Regional StabilityYemen's Uncertain Future Threatens Regional Stability
Wednesday 19 November 2008
Yemen presents a 'perfect storm' of problems for Western governments confronting the prospect of state failure in this strategically...

Key Foreign Policy Issues Facing Barack ObamaKey Foreign Policy Issues Facing Barack Obama
Wednesday 5 November 2008
Chatham House experts offer their perspectives on the key foreign policy and economic challenges facing the new administration. The following...

Economic Crisis May Need More 'Out of the Box' MeasuresEconomic Crisis May Need More 'Out of the Box' Measures
Wednesday 15 October 2008
A new paper by Chatham House says that the once-in-a-century economic meltdown means that OECD countries' simultaneous collapse in...

Prospects for Georgian Civil Society
November, 2008
This is a summary of a meeting held at Chatham House on 10 November 2008.

Business and Human Rights: Closing the Gaps
November, 2008
This is a summary of the International Law Discussion Group meeting held on 6 November 2008 at Chatham House.

Reflections on Russia and the West
November, 2008
Those concerned with policy-making towards Russia must determine how best to listen to the country's changing conversation with itself,...

Yemen: Fear of Failure
November, 2008
Yemen presents a potent combination of problems for policy-makers confronting the prospect of state failure in this strategically important...

 

 

Kirk Kashefi

Associate Fellow, Asia Programme

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Contact:

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Expertise

  • Intellectual Property
  • WTO's Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS)
  • Access to Essential Medicines
  • Indian Patent Law - Developments

Projects

  • Reviewing the effects of WTO-TRIPS compliance and intellectual property protection in India on the generic pharmaceutical industry, and access to essential medicines in countries of the third world

Recent Publications

  • Manunta M, Tan P, Sagoo P, Kashefi K, George A; Nucleic Acid Research 2004;32(9):2730-2739
  • Jolly C, Kashefi K, Sattentau Q; Journal of Experimental Medicine 2004;199(2):283-293
  • Iravani MM, Kashefi K, Mander P, Rose S, Jenner P; Neuroscience 2002;110(1):49-58

Experience

Professional:

May 05 - Jan 06

Publisher - Intellectual Asset Management (IAM)Magazine, London, UK

Apr 04 - Apr 05

Consultant - Asia-Pacific Technology Network, London, UK

Academic:

Oct 2005

Called to the Bar of England and Wales by the Honourable Society of Gray's Inn

2004 - 2005

The Bar Vocational Course - BPP Law School, London, UK

2002 - 2004

Postgraduate Diploma in Law - BPP Law School, London, UK

2001 - 2003

MPhil - Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine, London, UK

1998 - 2001

BSc. Biomedicine [Pharmacology] - Guy's, King's & St Thomas' School of Medicine, London, UK


Broadcast Experience

Some

Languages

English, Swedish, French (for broadcast)
Japanese (not for broadcast)