Jennifer Corpuz

Biography

Jennifer Tauli Corpuz coordinates the Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Program of Tebtebba – Indigenous Peoples’ International Center for Policy Research and Education, an organization based in the Philippines. An indigenous woman from the Kankana-ey Igorot People, and a lawyer by profession, she attends to the legal needs of Tebtebba partner communities and conducts regular trainings on indigenous peoples’ rights in the international system. Jennifer graduated from the University of the Philippines College of Law and obtained her Master of Laws from the Indigenous Peoples’ Law and Policy (IPLP) Program of The University of Arizona. She was the 2012 Indigenous Intellectual Property Law Fellow at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), and since then has been an active participant in the WIPO IGC negotiations on the protection of traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions. She was involved as negotiator and expert for the International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity (IIFB), representing indigenous peoples’ views and positions at the negotiations leading to the adoption of the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-Sharing under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).