Delphine Marie-Vivien

Dr Delphine Marie-Vivien, PhD, researcher in Intellectual Property and Food law, CIRAD, Montpellier, F-34398 France

She holds a MSc in Chemistry and a PhD in law. After 2 years as patent engineer, she joined CIRAD in 1999, a French public research institute dedicated to agricultural research for developing countries, to work on intellectual property, genetic resources and geographical indications (GIs).

Visiting researcher at NLSIU (National Law School of India University), Bangalore, India from 2005-2008, she defended her PhD thesis on “The law of Geographical indications in India compared to French, EU and International laws”, Paris University (Ehess), published by Sage.

She was from 2012 to 2018 based in Vietnam, working on GIs research and development projects in South-East Asia. She is a consultant for the French development agency (AFD), EUIPO, UNIDO, Swiss IPI for projects on GIs in Asia (Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Sri Lanka), South America (Colombia) and Africa (chief scientist of Facilité IG Fund).

She has been working on drafting GI laws, GI examination manual for IP offices, GI specifications, GI control & enforcement systems, GI producer’s association building. She participated with Redd to the international training on GIs InterGI since 2007 and the regional training AsiaGI, AmLat IG.

She has organised with FAO the two editions of the Worldwide perspectives on GIs multi-stakeholders conference. She is teaching IP law and GI law at various Universities and supervises PhD students.

From her theoretical and empirical research combined to her consultancy work, she has written extensively on GIs in Asia, in Europe and worldwide, regarding the public/private governance of GIs, the protection of GIs for handicraft goods, GIs and the protection of biodiversity, GIs and development, the control and enforcement of GIs, etc.

She was Deputy Director of the Research Unit Innovation from 2019 to 2023.