NCCR - Li Xuan

Xuan Li is a Consultant at World Trade Institute. She is also a senior research fellow at the Center of Intellectual Property Right, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, China and Visiting Professor at School of Economics and Trade, Hunan University, China. She has 12 years of working and research experience on trade and development with numerous national and international organizations such as China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) - Hunan Branch, Asian Development Bank (ADB), International Center for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD). Since 2003, she has been working as Consultant for a number of governmental/intergovermental bodies, e.g, MOFCOM, Chinese State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO), State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine (SATCM), Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA), European Commission (EC), World Health Organization (WHO), etc. She has been actively involved in the Formulation of National Strategic Plan on Intellectual Property under the leadership of China's Premier WEN Jiabao since 2004.

Her recent and forthcoming publications include " Does Higher IPR Standard under the TRIPS Induce More Innovation in the Developing Country? Evidence from the Chinese and Indian Patent Law Reforms ", UNU-WIDER Conference paper, Jan 12-13, 2007; " Novelty and Inventive Step: Obstacles to Traditional Knowledge Protection under Patent Regimes: A Case Study in China", European Journal of Intellectual Property Review, Apri 2007; "The Inadequacy of Patent Regime on Traditional Medicinal Knowledge (TMK)—A Diagnosis of 13-year TMK Patent Experience on China", Journal of World Intellectual Property, 2007; "WTO Case Studies on Intellectual Property" (Policy-oriented book requested by Chinese State Council), forthcoming, People's Press (Beijing); "How to Delineate Scope of Patent on DNA Sequences? – Experience on Switzerland Patent Amendment on Biotechnology ", Journal of Intellectual Property, Vol. 5, 2006; "Who Should Bear the Enforcement Cost on Intellectual Property Protection? An Economic and Law Perspective" , Journal of Intellectual Property , Vol. 3, 2004.

As Chief Consultant/Team Leader, Xuan Li has chaired several pioneer research projects on traditional knowledge, genetic resource and folklore, initiated by MOFCOM, SIPO, SATCM in China. She has been invited as speaker/keynote speaker in various seminars and forums held by MOFCOM, SIPO, SATCM, Ministry of Public Health, WHO, United Nation University, Chinese Academy of Social Science, All China Lawyers Association, Beijing University, etc.
Xuan Li's first major was International Trade, with the honour of "Top 100 University Students" in China (100 out of 5 million). She obtained her first Master's degree on Public Policy at the Korea Development Institute (KDI), with the "Academic Excellence Award" in 2001 (1 for each year). She received her second Master Degree at the World Trade Institute (WTI), Bern, majoring in International Law and Economics (MILE), and graduated with the " summa cum laude" in 2003 (1 for each year). Since then, she has been pursuing her doctoral study in law at University of Bern, Switzerland.