Richard C. Owens is a Senior Munk Fellow with Canada’s Macdonald-Laurier Institute, where he deals primarily with intellectual property and innovation policies, including pharmaceutical access and pricing. He is an adjunct professor, teaching courses including The Law of Information Technology and Electronic Commerce; Innovation Law and Policy; Intellectual Property; Digital Content and the Creative Economy; and The Law and Policy of Biotechnology, all at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, where he has taught for approximately 25 years and served full time for almost 6 years as the Executive Director of the Centre for Innovation Law and Policy. Richard is a lawyer who has specialized in business and commercial law, regulation of financial institutions, intellectual property, and technology laws. He was repeatedly recognized as among Canada’s best lawyers in technology law and attained the highest rating on Martindale Hubbell. Richard is past chair of the board of directors of the University of Toronto Innovations Foundation, responsible for commercializing University inventions, and past member of the advisory committee to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada. He is on or has served on the boards or advisory boards of other companies and not-for-profit enterprises. Richard has written and published widely on intellectual property law, innovation, the law of information technology, privacy, and the regulation of financial institutions.