About James Love

This is what I'm doing lately.

I am the director the Consumer Project on Technology (CPTech). The web address for CPTech is http://www.cptech.org, a small NGO with offices in Washington, DC, London and Geneva. CPTech is active in a number of issue areas, but in recent years has focused primarily on matters concerning intellectual property policy and practice, particularly as they relate to health care, and access to knowledge (a2k).

I am the owner of several discussions lists, which give addition information about our activities. See in particular, the archives to Random-Bits, for work on misc issues I work on, A2K, a discussion of access to knowledge issues, and ip-health, a list which discusses intellectual property and health issues, particularly as they relate to access to medicines.

I have been posting on several blogs, including http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-love/, Drug Development, WIPO casting treaty, Compulsory licensing and copyright, Working Agenda, and Mistakes are Made.

I don't do a very good job of linking to recent articles, but you might find interesting any of these following articles, papers or chapters:

A more updated list of articles are included here http://www.cptech.org/publications/recent-publications.html.

This is a picture of me, taken in August 2002 in Kuala Lumpur. If a picture editor needs to work with something larger, click on the picture. I also have a more recent picture, taken in September 2005 at WIPO, with Kamil Idris.

A little more background.

I received my graduate education at Harvard and Princeton Universities. Before my present position I was Senior Economist for the Frank Russell Company, a large pension fund consulting firm. When I worked for the Frank Russell Company, I worked on a team that developed a portfolio reporting system for the IBM pension fund's real estate investments, and I developed a return attribution model for the DEC pension fund, plus I worked on worked on a number of deals and research projects.

Before the Frank Russell Company I held teaching and research positions at Rutgers University and Princeton University. At Rutgers I was a visiting lecturer in 1987-1988, where I taught the microeconomics sequence for the business school. At Princeton I worked with Professor Bill Branson, doing a number of econometric studies of the economic impacts of movements of foreign exchange rates.

At Princeton, I focused my graduate studies on "industrial organization," which is the theory of the firm -- the field of economics that is most relevant to policies concerning government regulation, intellectual property and competition policy. I had the opportunity to work for a number of gifted economists, including Joe Stiglitz, Bobby Willig, Pete Kyle, Bill Branson and Uwe Reinhardt, and to learn from a very good faculty.

People who know me call me Jamie. I grew up in the Seattle area and lived in Alaska for 13 years, but since 1980 I have resided in the East Coast,including some time in Cambridge, Mass, Princeton, NJ, Ardmore, PA, and now the Washington, DC area. When I am in the United States, I can be reached at work by telephone at 1.202.332.2670 or by fax at 1.202.332.2673. My office should know how best to contact me. My Internet address is james.love at cptech.org. I am often traveling in places where timely email access is difficult, I get a huge amount of spam, and I often have a large backlog of email, and sometimes miss important messages when they are first sent, so please do not take it personally if I don't respond right way, or if I miss it altogether. Also, please forward all important information, especially conference and travel requests, to my colleague Malini Aisola.

This is a brief bio.