2017 Board of Governors Solicitation Asia-Pacific Region Dr. Nurul Barizah Faculty of Law, Universitas Airlangga,
[email protected] Nurul Barizah hold a Bachelor of Laws (S.H.) degree from the Faculty of Law, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia (1994), majoring on International Law. She awarded the Australian Development Scholarship twice in 2000 and 2005 for pursuing her degrees at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). She earned her Ph.D in Laws from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) in 2009 after previously receiving her Masters in Laws from the same University in 2001. His dissertation is about International Intellectual Property Regimes and Biological Resources. Currently, she is senior lecturer and researcher at the Faculty of Law, Universitas Airlangga, Indonesia. Besides her academic position above, she had experience as a Vice Dean for Cooperation, Development and Information System from 2010-2015, and then sits a Vice Dean for Academic and Students Affairs since 2015 until now. Nurul’s area of expertise is on International Intellectual Property, International Trade Law, International Law and International Dispute Resolution. Due to her expertise above, she has frequently invited by the several Governmental Agencies and Ministries, Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), as well as Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) to be resource person, speaker and expert in a number of activities and forum relating to Intellectual Property Rights Issues. Nurul also works also as a consultant for some Ministeries in Indonesia, particularly in the context of drafting academic paper, position paper, developing policy and legal reform related to her expertise. In 2012 until now, she have been appointed as a Member of Appeal Commission for the National Office of the Protection of Plant Varieties, under the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic Indonesia.