Dr. Roya Ghafele

Dr. Roya Ghafele holds a Lectureship with the University of Oxford. In her scholarly work she analyses intellectual property from the perspective of New Institutional Economics. Prior to her assignment at Oxford, she was an International Research Scholar at the Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley and at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
 
From 2002 to 2007 Dr. Ghafele worked as an Economist with the United Nation’s World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), where she offered strategic advice on Intellectual Property and Trade to Governments in Europe, Asia and the Middle East. In 2000 Dr. Ghafele started her career with the management consulting firm McKinsey & Company, where she moved from a five year long career as a ballet dancer.

Dr. Roya Ghafele was trained at Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies, the Sorbonne and Vienna University. Her Ph.D. on ‘Globalization, Francophone Africa and the WTO’ was awarded the Theodor Koerner Research Prize by the President of the Republic of Austria. During the course of her studies Dr. Ghafele was four times awarded the Vienna University Grant for Excellence in Studies. She is fluent in German, English, French, Italian and Persian.