Dr Oluwatobiloba Moody

Tobi Moody is the Director of the World Intellectual Property Organization, Nigeria Office. In this role, he leads and coordinates the work of WIPO in Nigeria, with a key focus on awareness raising, training and capacity building in the field of intellectual property, and across WIPO's global services. At WIPO, he has previously worked with the Traditional Knowledge Division in Geneva, where he coordinated Member States' negotiations for the development of an international instrument to ensure the effective global protection of traditional knowledge, cultural expressions and genetic resources.

Tobi holds appointment as a professor of intellectual property law at Queen's University in Canada, with additional appointment as the Queen's National Scholar in International Economic Law and was also a Fellow with the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) and served with the Appellate Body Secretariat of the WTO.

Tobi obtained a Ph.D. in Global Intellectual Property Law (Vanier Scholar) from Queen's University, Canada; an LL.M. in International Trade and Investment Law (cum laude) from the University of the Western Cape in South Africa, and an LL.B. from the University of Ibadan in Nigeria. He is a member of the Nigerian Bar.