Rethinking Intellectual Property and Data - Rohinton Medhora

This is part of Rethinking Capitalism and Economic Orders, a virtual series for anyone interested in reconnecting economic thought with the real worlds it sought to describe, reform, or transform. Together, we’ll explore capitalism not just as an economic system, but as a lived experience, a political project, and an ideological battleground. Join the next session live!

The series is hosted by YSI's working groups on East Asia and on History of Economic Thought, and organized by Sattwick Dey Biswas and Kosal Nith.

About the speaker:
Rohinton P. Medhora is Professor of Practice at the Institute for the Study of International Development at McGill University, Montreal, Canada and a former president of the Centre for International Governance Innovation in Waterloo, Canada where he remains a Distinguished Fellow. Previously, he was vice president of programs at the International Development Research Centre. His fields of expertise are international economic relations, innovation policy, and development economics.

Rohinton sits on the board of several research and non-profit organizations. He was a member of the Commission on Global Economic Transformation and The Lancet and Financial Times Commission on Governing Health Futures 2030, and is a founding member of its successor the Digital Transformations for Health Lab at the University of Geneva. In 2021-22 he chaired the Ontario Workplace Recovery Advisory Committee.

Rohinton received his doctorate in economics in 1988 from the University of Toronto, where he subsequently taught. He has published extensively in professional and non-technical journals and has produced several books including co-editing International Development: Ideas, Experience, and Prospects (Oxford University Press). In May 2025 he produced a three-part video series on the governance of new technologies with the Institute for New Economic Thinking in New York.

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