Dr. Carolyn DEERE is the Resident Scholar at ICTSD and a Senior Researcher at the Global Economic Governance (GEG) Programme at the University of Oxford where she directs its project on Global Trade Governance. She is also a Senior Research Associate at Oxford’s Centre for International Studies. Dr. Deere is the founder and Chair of the Board of Directors of Intellectual Property Watch - the leading news service on international intellectual property policymaking - and a member of the Advisory Board of 3D - Trade - Human Rights - Equitable Economy.
Dr. Deere was previously the Assistant Director of the Global Inclusion theme at the Rockefeller Foundation in New York where she was responsible for grantmaking on intellectual property, trade and sustainable development. In partnership with colleagues across the Foundation, she designed and coordinated the Foundation’s initiative to Promote a Fairer Course for Intellectual Property Policy and launched the Bellagio Series on Development and Intellectual Property Policy. During this time, Dr. Deere also co-founded the Funders Network on Trade and Globalization (FNTG) and served on its Steering Committee. Prior to moving to the Rockefeller Foundation, she worked in Washington, D.C. for the World Conservation Union (IUCN) and was the Manager of the Congressional Staff Forum on International Development at the Overseas Development Council (ODC).
She has been a consultant to a range of non-governmental and international organisations, including UNDP’s Office of the Human Development Report, the National Wildlife Federation, the Yale Centre for Environmental Law and Policy, the Open Society Institute and the South Centre. Dr. Deere is the co-editor (with Dan Esty) of Greening the Americas: NAFTA’s Lessons for Hemispheric Trade (MIT Press, 2001), author of The Implementation Game: Developing Countries and the Politics of TRIPS (1995-2006) (forthcoming, 2007) and has published a wide range of articles and reports on issues related to sustainable development and trade, particularly in the area of fisheries, intellectual property and eco-labelling. She holds a DPhil in International Relations (University College, Oxford), an MA in International Relations (Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies) and a bachelors degree in political economy from the University of Sydney. She is of joint Australian and British nationality.