Dr Desmond Oriakhogba

Senior Lecturer, Department of Private Law, University of the Western Cape

Desmond Oriakhogba is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Private Law at the UWC. He obtained his PhD from the University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa; and Master of Laws (LLM) and Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degrees from the University of Benin, Nigeria.

He is a Queen Elizabeth Scholar (awarded by the Canadian government). He is also an expert collaborator with international research networks, including the Open African Innovation Research Network, the International Network on the Right to Research in International Copyright. Desmond is an independent consultant for the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) where he tutors participants under WIPO Academy’s distance learning programs. He is an associate editor of the South African Intellectual Property Law Journal, and was a visiting researcher in the Centre for Technology, Law and Society, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, Canada.