Patricia Kameri-Mbote is an Associate Professor of Law, an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya and Chair of the Department of Private Law, University of Nairobi.She has served as Acting Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Nairobi, Acting Executive Director and Director of Research and Policy Outreach, African Centre for Technology Studies, Nairobi. She was also a member of the Committee of Eminent Persons appointed by His Excellency the President of Kenya in February 2006 to advise the government on the way forward for the stalled constitution review process.
She has also been identified by the World Conservation Union (IUCN) as a renowned thinker in the global environment and sustainable development field and served as a Policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Prof Kameri-Mbote studied law in Nairobi, Warwick, Zimbabwe and Stanford and currently teaches Biotechnology and the Law, Patents Law, International Environmental Law, Law, Science and Technology and Feminist Jurisprudence at the Faculty of Law, University of Nairobi.
She has also taught international environmental law at the University of Kansas; Trade, Environment and Law at the University of Stellenbosch, Cape Town, South Africa; and Women, Access to Resources and the Law at the Women's Law Centre, University of Zimbabwe. She has been invited to teach a January Term Course on Biotechnology and Law at the University of Ottawa in January. She serves as external examiner to the Faculties of Law at the Universities of London, Makerere and Dar es Salaam.
She is a member of the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law and the Kenya National Academy of Sciences and a board member of the Kenya Copyright Board, the Advocates Coalition for Development and Environment (ACODE-Uganda); Resources Conflict Institute (RECONCILE) and Women and Law in East Africa (WLEA).
She has consulted for many international and national agencies including the UK Department for International Development, the World Bank, the United States Agency for International Development, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD) and the Government of Kenya.
She has published widely in the areas of international law, environmental law, women's rights and property rights and participated in international, regional, national and local conferences. Patricia also chaired the Kenya Nile Discourse Forum from 2003 to 2005.
Her research interests include environment and natural resources law and policy, human rights, women's rights, land rights, intellectual property rights, biotechnology policy and law and economic law.
Source: http://www.uonbi.ac.ke/faculties/SOL/cvs/Kamerimbote.pdf. Accessed 15 July 2009
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