Shamnad Basheer

Shamnad Basheer is the Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) Professor in Intellectual Property law at the National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS), Kolkata. After graduating from the National Law School Bangalore, he joined Anand and Anand, a leading intellectual property law firm in New Delhi, where he rose to head the firm's IT and telecommunications law division. He then went on to do postgraduate studies as a Wellcome Trust Scholar at the University of Oxford and transitioned to academia. However he continues to consult with law firms, governments and intergovernmental institutions. In the past, he has been an IBA and an IPBA scholar and has published papers in leading intellectual property law journals. Shamnad was recently nominated as an expert on the IP global advisory council (GAC) of the World Economic Forum (WEF).