Richard obtained a PhD in Molecular Biology at the University of Colorado, followed by an NIH fellowship at the Plant Breeding Institute in Cambridge where he was responsible for creating and distributing amongst the most widely cited and licensed plant biotechnologies. CAMBIA, an international non-profit institute based in Australia was founded in 1991 and is dedicated to development of tools and enabling technologies to promote equitable life sciences-enabled innovation worldwide.

The CAMBIA BiOS Initiative (www.bios.net) - the biological open source movement is an integrated response to increasing science and technology complexity, patent thickets and innovation system inefficiencies. As part of this work, CAMBIA created the Patent Lens, (www.patentlens.net), an independent, public-good global resource for increasing patent transparency. 

Richard has worked and taught extensively in the developing world, supporting the Rockefeller Foundation's biotechnology network for over ten years, and has worked as senior staff for the FAO, and consultant for other UN Agencies. He has been profiled in media including The Economist, Newsweek, Nature Biotechnology and Red Herring. CAMBIA's work has recently featured in cover editorials in most major life sciences journals.

In 2003 he was named by Scientific American to the List of the World's 50 most influential technologists, cited as the World Research Leader for 2003 for Economic Development. Richard is an Outstanding Social Entrepreneur of the Schwab Foundation, for which is a regular panelist at the Davos meetings of the World Economic Forum. 

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Carol holds a Ph.D. in Genetics from Stanford University and a J.D. magna cum laude from University of Puget Sound (now Seattle University) School of Law. She was a biomedical scientist in the academic world for many years before earning her law degree. Her legal focus is patents and their strategic integration with business goals. In private law practice, she often counselled clients on freedom to operate issues and saw the need for more pragmatic learning tools about patents.  Carol was the Director of Intellectual Property and Chief Legal Officer for CAMBIA until 2004 and oversaw the creation of the CAMBIA IP Resource. She has now returned to private practice (www.cougarlaw.com) and is retained as a consultant for CAMBIA.

Doug is a foundation member of the Informatics Team, joining in early 2000. Doug's roles include working on the development of the patent database and on the CAMBIA IP website content management and interface. Doug previously worked in the public sector (IP Australia) in the area of intellectual property information management, which he interspersed with extensive travelling throughout Asia. He graduated from the University of Melbourne with a BA majoring in computing.

Neil is from Hamilton, New Zealand, where he caught a B.Sc (Phys) at Waikato Uni.  He did a short stint of seismic surveying in the Bass Strait with Esso and enjoyed a few stormy days of seas rougher than he imagined possible. He worked at the CSIRO Division of Fossil Fuels and did a part-time M.Sc. (Phys) at the UNSW. Since then he's been doing IT work, initially embedded engineering applications and telecommunications and finally more general IT, in the UK, NZ, Belgium and Australia. Neil moved back to Australia from Belgium to be warm and live near a nice surf beach, but something went wrong with the plan and he ended up in Canberra - oh well, it's great for cycling. Neil has worked extensively on CAMBIA Sequence Software