Ms. Intan Hamdan Livramento

Intan is an economist with more than ten years of experience working on issues of economics of innovation and international trade. She obtained her doctoral degree from the Chair of Economics and Management of Innovation (CEMI) at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), specializing on intellectual property rights in developing countries, and is a graduate of the WTI’s MILE programme. She is a member of the European Policy on Intellectual Property (EPIP) group, which meets yearly to exchange ideas on intellectual property systems and intangible assets to promote innovation, productivity and growth. Intan is also part of the newly created Lausanne Group, which focuses on technology transfer issues in least developed countries. Intan lectures graduate level students on Economics of Innovation at the EPFL alongside Professor Dominique Foray. She is working on several papers on innovation in developing countries and consulting on various innovation-related projects. Intan is a founder and managing director of Intelligent Strategy, an EPFL-CEMI spin-off consulting firm. She also serves as a part-time consultant for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Geneva since October 2004. Prior to joining the CEMI group, Intan Hamdan had work experiences with the World Trade Organization, Geneva and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Washington D.C as a research assistant in the area of international business and trade. Intan Hamdan currently holds two master’s degree in International Economics from the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva and in International Law and Economics from the World Trade Institute, Berne. She obtained her undergraduate degree in Economics from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington.