Dr. Jorge Rojas is a Senior Fellow at the University of California, Davis´ School of Law California International Law Center and Center for Sciences and Innovation Studies, Mentor at the UC Davis Institute of Entrepreneurship and Innovation. He is a Board member of the Global Intellectual Property Alliance GLIPA, and Ministro titular at Tribunal de Propiedad Industrial.His research and professional work focuses on university research management, international intellectual property, and technology transfer, internationalization of research, and graduate programs at higher education institutions. He has been a Justice at the Patent and Trademark Appeal Court, Program Director for Chile - UC Davis Partnership, and Director for Latin America International Law Programs, the School of Law at the University of California, Davis. He has worked on IP issues for the UC system, including Davis and Berkeley, public agencies, universities, and the private sector in Latin America and Europe, and has published on technology and intellectual property issues. Dr. Rojas has been a member of the Steering Committee of the Centro Interuniversitario de Desarrollo Network of Vice-Presidents of Research and Innovation, as well as a consultant and collaborator for OAS, the Interamerican Development Bank, and several governments and public agencies and higher educations institutions across the world. Lately, Dr. Rojas has been a fellow of the US Embassy to Chile Council on Sciences and Technology and is currently acting as a closing President at both Universidad ARCIS and Universidad UNICIT. Dr. Rojas is a lawyer and a native of Chile. He holds degrees in Accounting from the University of Concepcion and in Law from the University of Chile. He earned a Master’s Degree (LLM) from the UC Davis Law School in 2003 and a doctoral degree (JSD) from the UC Berkeley Law School in 2008. He was a civil servant in Chile from 1991 to 1998, focusing on agreements of international cooperation and higher education. From 1998 to 2002, he was a lawyer for Fundacion Chile. A Fulbright 2000, currently holds appointments as a Visiting Professor of Law and Innovation at the University of Chile and other Chilean and Latin American universities and international organizations like the Inter-American Organization for Higher Education.