Webinar: Green Technology Innovation in Europe and Beyond

Dr. Peter Oksen is Senior Program Officer at WIPO GREEN. He has more than 20 years’ experience in socio-economic development and natural resources management and holds a MSc in Geography and a PhD in International Development Studies. He was associate professor in development studies at Roskilde University, Denmark for more than a decade before moving to Lao PDR working as managing director of a Lao-Australian consulting company. Later, he headed the Danida Environmental Support Programme in Indonesia for three years, developed the environmental and social safeguard approaches and tools for the World Food Programme in Rome, and then joined WIPO GREEN in late 2018.

At WIPO GREEN, Peter is working with connecting innovative technological solutions to pertinent issues around climate change, food security, and the environment, and provides expert guidance. Peter is also the creator and owner of the website sustainablesuccessstories.org.

Tamara Nanayakkara is Counsellor at the SMEs and Entrepreneurship Support Division, Department for Transition and Developed Countries of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Since she joined WIPO in January 1994, she has worked in the Cooperation for Development Bureau for Asia and the Pacific, Economic Analysis, Forecast and Research Division and the Least Developed Countries Division.

Before joining WIPO she worked as an Attorney at Law and as an Assistant Lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the University of Colombo in Sri Lanka. She holds a Bachelors and a Masters Degree in Law from the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka and a Masters Degree in International Management from the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA.

Arnaud de la Fouchardière has founded several companies in the course of his career. He is now the founder and CEO of the Vitirover company based in Saint Emilion, France, which specialises in robots for agriculture and industry (herds of robots to replace Glyphosate).

In San Francisco, Arnaud has launched Quickeo, web 2.0 software proposing email as the universal distribution channel for rich multimedia content. He is an early pioneer of smartphones and finger-touch software and he founded NOVINIT sold to the US company THUMBIT.

In 1998, he created the first French e-commerce site selling domestic appliances, Marcopoly.com. The company was acquired by France Telecom/Orange in 2000. Prior to Marcopoly, Arnaud spent 15 years in the marketing industry. He founded marketing agency TEQUILA and, as chairman and CEO, oversaw its international expansion before selling it to TBWA\Omnicom in 1994. Arnaud is also an independent expert in robotics and digital farming at the European Commission and has the rank of Commander in the French Army Citizen Reserve.