Manon Ress

Manon Ress is currently focusing on intellectual property issues, building public awareness on the debate over the value of public interest in intellectual property rights. She is an active participant at the World Intellectual Property Organization's meetings of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights and in other multilateral fora where access to knowledge issues intersect with intellectual property laws. Dr. Ress works on promoting fair use rights, open standards, open access publishing and other e-commerce and internet-related consumer protection issues such as the definition of unfair contracts and tort liabilities.

She is the managing editor of the new open journal Knowledge Ecology Studies. From 2000 to 2004, she was a consumer representative on the U.S. Delegation to the Proposed Hague Convention on Jurisdiction and Foreign Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters.  Dr. Ress holds a B.A. and a Master's Degree from the Université de Nice, France as well as a Master's and a Ph.D. from Princeton University.