Charles Clift

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Index 2012
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Is a Senior Research Consultant in the Centre on Global Health Security at Chatham House, UK. Until 2010 he was Senior Advisor for the UK Department for International Development (DFID) on Access to Medicines.

He is currently Chair of the Medicines Patent Pool Foundation, a Swiss NGO seeking to make available more affordable and better adapted treatments for HIV/AIDS in developing countries. He specializes in the relationship between intellectual property rights and access to medicines in developing countries. Charles was previously Head of the Secretariat for the World Health Organization (WHO) Commission on Intellectual Property Rights, Innovation and Public Health.