Bio
Courtney Doagoo is a CIGI fellow as well as an Artificial Intelligence and Society Fellow at the University of Ottawa’s Centre for Law, Technology and Society. She completed her Ph.D. in 2017 at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law, focusing on the use of intellectual property (IP) law and norms in creative communities. Following her doctoral research, she joined the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Coordination Office in New York as a legal intern and contributed to developing the joint initiative on gender and innovation in collaboration with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and UN Women. During her time at CIGI as a post-doctoral fellow in the IP law stream, she engaged in research and multi-sectoral discussions on formal and informal regulatory mechanisms for technology law and policy, with a specific focus on issues related to data, artificial intelligence and IP.