Mme. Carolyn Deere,
Australia 
Senior Research Fellow, Natural Resources Law

Carolyn Deere, M.A. (Johns Hopkins SAIS), B.Econ. (Hons) (Sydney) is Lead Research Fellow for Natural Resources Law with the CISDL. She is also a Researcher at the Global Economic Governance Programme at Oxford University. She was previously Assistant Director in the Global Inclusion theme of the Rockefeller Foundation, a Founder of the Funders’ Network on Trade and Globalization and serves on its Steering Committee, and a member of the Steering Committee of Grantmakers Without Borders. She is Founder and Chair of the Board of Directors of Intellectual Property Watch (IP Watch). Ms. Deere has also worked with the World Conservation Union (IUCN); the International Center for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) (Geneva); and the Congressional Staff Forum for International Development at the Overseas Development Council in Washington, D.C. She has published on natural resources, subsidies and trade issues, and has consulted for UNCTAD, UNDP and the Soros Foundation, among others.