Mônica Cibele Amâncio
Monica Amancio focuses her interests on intellectual property law and agricultural Technology Transfer Management. She combines her scientific and legal training to investigate issues at the intersection of biological research and the law. She graduated from Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Belo Horizonte, Brazil) in Biological Sciences. Then she received her law degree from the same University, where she also received a Master’s degree in Economic Law (2003). She earned her PhD in Biotechnology and Genomic Sciences from Universidade Católica de Brasilia (2011, Brazil), where her research concentrated on development of agricultural biotechnologies in Brazil. She works as lawyer at Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária— Embrapa (Brasília, Brazil), since 2001, where she coordinated the area of intellectual property and biosafety regulation of Embrapa. She has experience in the field of Law and Public Policy, acting on the following topics: technological innovation, intellectual property, agricultural biotechnology and biosafety and contracts law. She has international experience attended different scientific events, in particular following the negotiations of the Cartagena Protocol as a member of the Brazilian delegation.