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SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES Leo Angelakos ’17 Leo Angelakos is a third year law student and who works with the Cyberlaw Clinic and the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology (JOLT), and has counseled developing countries interested in software patent reform. As part of his work, Leo recently traveled to Geneva, Switzerland to present a paper to the African Delegation to WIPO, the United Nations agency devoted to intellectual property law. Leo spent his first summer at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Silicon Valley, helping the DOJ’s CHIP unit prosecute cyberhacking cases. He spent his second summer at the Silicon Valley office of Quinn Emanuel, where he worked on high stakes intellectual property appeals, including appeals to the Supreme Court. He is 2012 graduate of Stanford University. At Stanford, Leo worked at the university lab analyzing biological data in studies on bodily responses to perceived risks, and for President Obama during his 2012 re-election campaign. Lynn Ashby-Savarese ’81 Lynn Ashby-Savarese is a photographer whose fine arts work focuses on intimate observation, and whose documentary work focuses on social justice issues. Originally from a small town in Texas, Ashby-Savarese resided and traveled throughout the world before making New York City her home in the early ’80s following her graduation from Harvard Law School. After careers in corporate law and investment banking and a lengthy sabbatical to raise her family and pursue volunteer work for various human rights organizations, Ashby-Savarese finally found her passion—photography—several years ago. Since then, her fine arts photography has appeared in numerous shows and publications both in the USA and abroad, and she has won several awards and honors for her work, including having recently been named a Finalist of the Magnum Photography Awards 2016. Ashby-Savarese also works with not-for-profit organizations to help further their missions through strategic photography projects. As the co-founder and photographer for the New Abolitionists campaign – a project to combat human trafficking – she has photographed over 250 New Abolitionists, including Harvard Law School luminaries Laurence Tribe, Charles Ogletree, and Samantha Power, and over 50 survivors of human trafficking. She has also organized five exhibitions featuring New Abolitionists, including an exhibition at Harvard Law School in 2015. Ashby-Savarese has also engaged in volunteer work at HLS over the years, including having served as co- chair of the HLS Annual Fund, and co-chair of several class reunions. Christopher T. Bavitz Christopher T. Bavitz is the WilmerHale Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where he co-teaches the Counseling and Legal Strategy in the Digital Age seminar and teaches the seminar, Music & Digital Media. He is also Managing Director of HLS’s Cyberlaw Clinic, based at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. And, he is a Faculty Co-Director of the Berkman Klein Center. Chris concentrates his practice on intellectual property and media law, particularly in the areas of music, entertainment, and technology. He oversees many of the Clinic’s projects relating to copyright, speech, advising of startups, and the use of technology to support access to justice, and he serves as the HLS Dean’s Designate to the Harvard Innovation Lab. Prior to joining the Clinic, Chris served as Senior Director of Legal Affairs for EMI Music North America. From 1998–2002, Chris was a litigation associate at Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal and RubinBaum LLP / Rubin Baum Levin Constant & Friedman, where he focused on copyright and trademark matters. Chris received his B.A., cum laude, from Tufts University in 1995 and his J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1998. 1 Dennis N. Berman ’76 Dennis N. Berman is Co-founder and Executive Vice President, Corporate Development of Tocagen Inc., a gene therapy company. Dennis has been co-founder and/or seed investor in six publicly held companies. The most well-known of these was Intervu Inc., which delivered approximately 50% of all online video traffic when it was acquired by Akamai in 2000. Dennis was also involved in Gensia Pharmaceuticals and Viagene (both life sciences companies), and Kintera, a pioneer in Internet fundraising. In addition to his Harvard Law education, Dennis holds a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. from The Wharton School. Dennis has been a Traphagen Distinguished Alumni Speaker at Harvard Law School, and is currently an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the Harvard Innovation Lab. Gabriella Blum, LL.M. ’01, S.J.D. ’03 Gabriella Blum is the Rita E. Hauser Professor of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at Harvard Law School, specializing in public international law, international negotiations, the law of armed conflict, and counterterrorism. She is also the Faculty Director of the Program on International Law and Armed Conflict (PILAC) and a member of the Program on Negotiation Executive Board. Prior to joining the Harvard faculty in the fall of 2005, Blum served for seven years as a Senior Legal Advisor in the International Law Department of the Military Advocate General’s Corps in the Israel Defense Forces, and for another year, as a Strategy Advisor to the Israeli National Security Council. Blum is a graduate of Tel-Aviv University (LL.B. 1995, B.A. Economics 1997) and of Harvard Law School LL.M. ’01 and S.J.D. ’03. Blum is the author of Islands of Agreement: Managing Enduring Armed Rivalries (Harvard University Press, 2007), Laws, Outlaws, and Terrorists (MIT Press, 2010) (co-authored with Philip Heymann and recipient of the Roy C. Palmer Civil Liberties Prize), and The Future of Violence: Robots and Germs, Hackers and Drones - Confronting a New Age of Threat (Basic Books, 2015) (co-authored with Benjamin Wittes and recipient of the Roy C. Palmer Civil Liberties Prize) as well as of journal articles in the fields of public international law and the law and morality of war. David Bonderman ’66 David Bonderman is a founding partner of Texas Pacific Group (TPG), a leading global private investment firm founded in 1992 with over $74B of assets under management and offices around the world. TPG has extensive experience with global public and private investments executed through leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, spinouts, growth investments, joint ventures, and restructurings. Portfolio companies controlled by TPG have combined revenue surpassing $100B and operate in more than 100 countries. Prior to forming TPG in 1992, Mr. Bonderman was chief operating officer of the Robert M. Bass Group, Inc. Before this, he was a partner in the law firm of Arnold & Porter in Washington, D.C. and special assistant to the U.S. Attorney General in the Civil Rights Division. Mr. Bonderman is a director of Airbnb, Inc.; Kite Pharma, Inc.; Uber; and Ryanair Holdings, plc, of which he is chairman. In addition, he serves on the boards of The Wilderness Society, The Grand Canyon Trust, and the American Himalayan Foundation. He received his B.A. from University of Washington in 1963 and his J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1966, where he was a member of the Harvard Law Review and a Sheldon Fellow. Bonderman currently serves on the Dean’s Advisory Board at Harvard Law School and is a member of the Committee on University Resources (COUR). 2 Neil Chayet ’63 Neil Chayet is Co-Chair of the Harvard Law School Association Senior Advisory Network and President of the Harvard Law School Association of Massachusetts. He is widely known for his daily nationally-syndicated CBS radio feature, Looking at the Law. The familiar opening line, “This is Neil Chayet, Looking at the Law” has greeted listeners around the nation every weekday for more than 39 years. Since 1976, Neil has written and broadcast more than 9,500 one-minute features. As President of Chayet Communications Group, he maintains an active legal and consulting practice, specializing in the building of “deep coalitions” to deal with difficult issues of public policy. Neil is also a member of the faculty of the Harvard Medical School, serving in the Department of Psychiatry at McLean Hospital. A graduate of Tufts University, he is a member of the faculty of the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts, and a member of the Board of Tufts’ Tisch college of Citizenship and Public Service. Neil is a member of the Board of Directors of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research at M.I.T. He also serves as a member of the MassPort Security Advisory Council, the Board of MassINC, the Board of Overseers of the U.S.S. Constitution Museum, the Boards of Timber Owners of New England and Wildlife Conservation Trust, and the Visiting Committee to the Phillips Library of the Peabody Essex Museum. Morgan Chu ’76 Morgan Chu is a partner of Irell & Manella, where he was co-managing partner from 1997 to 2003, and where he has been a member of its Executive Committee since 1985. He is presently chair of the Litigation Group. Chu joined Irell & Manella as an associate in 1977 and became a partner in 1982. After law school, he clerked for the Honorable Charles M. Merrill, J.D. ’31 of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Since 1993, Mr. Chu has been a member of the Board of Directors of Public Counsel, serving on the Executive Committee since 1995. The organization is the nation’s largest pro bono public-interest law firm. Chu previously served on the Board of Governors of the University of California, Los Angeles Foundation, has been an adjunct professor at UCLA School of Law, and has served as a judge pro tem. Chu received his B.A.