ProfessorRichard Watt

Research Fellow of the International Centre for Economic Research (located in Turin, Italy). Membership is by invitation only, and is decided by a panel of experts after consideration of research excellence of the candidates.

Member of a group of experts of the World Intellectual Property Organization to study copyright policy in member countries. The members of the group were chosen by WIPO experts in 2009, and membership of the group was by invitation only.

Member of a panel of experts chosen by SABIP (the Strategic Advisory Board on Intellectual Property) in England, to study current issues and practices on copyright policy.

Member of organising committee for the 2005 World Risk and Insurance Economics Congress (held in Salt Lake City).

I am a member of the American Economic Association (since about 1995).

Visiting Erskine Fellow, Department of Economics, University of Canterbury (New Zealand) 2005

President of the Society for Economic Research on Copyright Issues 2002-04

Member of Special Group of Experts, chosen by the World Intellectual Property Organization to develop a methodology to evaluate the economic impact of copyright on national economies. Group met in Helsinki (Finland), July 2002.