Dalindyebo Shabalala is a Staff Attorney and Director of CIEL's Intellectual Property and Sustainable Development Project. He focuses on issues at the intersection of Intellectual Property and Human Health, Biodiversity and Food Security, as well as addressing systematic reform of the international intellectual property system.

Previously, Mr. Shabalala was a Research Fellow in the Innovation, Access to Knowledge, and Intellectual Property Programme at the South Centre, an intergovernmental organization of developing countries in Geneva, Switzerland. Working with Prof. Carlos Correa and Sisule Musungu, his research focused on limitations and exceptions to copyright and developing country access to digital and internet content. He also provided technical assistance and policy advice to developing country negotiators in Geneva in multilateral fora such as the WTO and WIPO.
Before this, Mr. Shabalala worked as an intern at the South Centre with Dr. Carlos Correa in the Intellectual Property Policy Research and Development Project, researching patent policy in developing countries.

Mr. Shabalala received his B.A. degree in Political Science and Cognitive Science, from Vassar College in 1998. At Vassar he was a Ford Foundation Scholar in the Political Science Department and an Undergraduate Research Science Institute Scholar in the Cognitive Science Department. Mr. Shabalala received his Juris Doctor, cum laude, from the University of Minnesota Law School in 2004, where he worked with Prof. David Weissbrodt on researching the Human Rights Responsibilities of Transnational Corporations.

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