James Love, Director
Brief Bio
Mr. Love is the Director of Knowledge Ecology International (KEI). Mr. Love is also the U.S. co-chair of the Trans-Atlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD) Intellectual Property Policy Committee, chair of Essential Inventions, an advisor to the X-Prize Foundation on a prize for TB diagnostics, and a member of the UNITAID Expert Group on Patent Pools, the MSF Working Group on Intellectual Property, the Stop-TB Partnership working group on new drug development, and the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Dynamic Coalition on Open Standards. He advises UN agencies, national governments, international and regional intergovernmental organizations and public health NGOs, and is the author of a number of articles and monographs on innovation and intellectual property rights. In 2006, Knowledge Ecology International received a MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions.
Mr. Love was previously Senior Economist for the Frank Russell Company, a lecturer at Rutgers University, and a researcher on international finance at Princeton University. He holds a Masters of Public Administration from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and a Masters in Public Affairs from Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
Pictures
There are some pictures of me here.
Blogs
I blog about KEI work here: http://www.keionline.org/blog/jamieOn other topics, including some not work related, I blog here:
- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-love
- http://twitter.com/jamie_love
- http://jamie.workingagenda.com/blog/
Selected Articles and Reports
- 2009. James Love and Tim Hubbard, "Prizes for Innovation of New Medicines and Vaccines," Annals of Health Law, Vol. 18, No 2, pages 155-186, Summer.
- Eyes on the Prize: Incentivizing Drug Innovation without Monopolies, Multinational Monitor, MAY/JUN 2009, VOL 30 NO. 3
- 2009 June 18. The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases and the right to development. Prepared for the UN Human Rights Council, Working Group on the Right to Development, High Level Task Force on the implementation of the right to development. A/HRC/12/WG.2/TF/CRP.4/Rev.1.
- 2008 June 20. UNITAID/EB8/2008/11/1, Annex 1, Cost Benefit Analysis for UNITAID Patent Pool.
- 2008 April 11. James Love. "The Role of Prizes in Developing Low-Cost, Point-of-Care Rapid Diagnostic Tests and Better Drugs for Tuberculosis," MSF expert meeting on IGWG and R&D for tuberculosis.
- 2008 March 26. James Love. "Prizes, not prices, to stimulate antibiotic R&D.," SciDev.net.
- 2007 November 28. James Love and Tim Hubbard. "The Big Idea: Prizes to Stimulate R&D for New Medicines," Chicago-Kent Law Review, Volume 82, Number 3 (2007).
- 2007 November 12. James Love. "Would cash prizes promote cheap drugs?" The New Scientist.
- 2006 March. James Love, "Measures to Enhance Access to Medical Technologies, and New Methods of Stimulating Medical R & D, UC Davis Law Review, Volume 40, Issue No. 3 Symposium: Intellectual Property and Social Justice, 679.
- 2006 May. James Love. Drug development incentives to improve access to essential medicines. Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 84(5).
- 2006 May. James Love, "A new initiative at the WHO, Prizes rather than prices." Le Monde diplomatique.
- 2005. James Love. Remuneration Guidelines for Non-Voluntary Use of a Patent on Medical Technologies. World Health Organization. Health Economics and Drugs, TCM Series No. 18.
- 2005 October 28,. James Love, "A Better Way of Stockpiling Medicines," Financial Times, with subscription, or without.