As Director of the WTO IP Division, Antony Taubman is responsible for overseeing all of the WTO's IP-related activities, including the 1994 Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement, technical cooperation and capacity-building activity, and related dispute settlement matters. He is also responsible for managing WTO activity related to government procurement and trade and competition policy, as these are in the same division at WTO. He is able to provide a unique insiders' perspective on the subject. He has published widely on the topic of international intellectual property, writing papers on such topics as TRIPS and compulsory licensing; the public domain and intellectual property law treaties; public-private management of IP for public health in developing countries; and the international patent system and biomedical research, and co-authored a guide to public sector IP management in the life sciences.