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Dr. Marcelin Tonye Mahop is an intellectual Property Rights consultant, with a PhD earned from the Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute (QMIPRI), Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS), Queen Mary University of London. He has more than 15 years’ experience of research and consultancy on IPRs, in particular in the area of IPR application to biotechnology innovations, specifically agricultural biotechnology and genetic resources utilization within the framework of the implementation of the 1992 UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), its 2010 Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing and the FAO Plant Treaty. Dr. Mahop has published broadly on IP with his 2010 book ‘Intellectual Property, Community Rights and Human Rights: The Biological and Genetic Resources of Developing Countries’ published by Taylor & Francis: London and New York and the co-edited 2012 book: ‘Extending the Protection of Geographical Indications: Case Studies of Agricultural Products in Africa’ published by Earthscan from Routledge: Oxford and New York. Dr. Mahop is currently a research fellow at the University of Leeds researching on the processes of formulation and implementation of climate smart agriculture policies, paying special attention to the extent to which these policies accommodate and promote the use of biotechnological innovations in the agriculture sector in the interest of food security, economic development and climate resilience in Africa. He is a citizen of Cameroon.