Peter Beyer

Peter Beyer, a trained lawyer, is a Senior Advisor with the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva where he is responsible for issues related to public health, trade and intellectual property. This includes work on innovative funding mechanisms for research and development. Peter was instrumental in setting up a sustainable cooperation among the World Intellectual Property, the World Trade Organization and WHO as well as the WHO/DNDi initiative on a Global Antibiotic R&D Partnership. Previously, Peter Beyer was a Legal Advisor to the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property in Berne. He negotiated bilateral free trade agreements for the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) and headed negotiations at WHO and WIPO. Furthermore, he was responsible for the bilateral dialogue between Switzerland and China on intellectual property. Prior to joining the Swiss civil service, Peter Beyer worked with the Ecologic Institute in Berlin as a Senior Fellow on environmental law and policy. He acted as an adviser to the European Commission as well as to different national Ministries of the Environment in the areas of pollution control, waste management, climate change and environmental liability. Peter Beyer was a research and teaching assistant at the University of Geneva, writing his doctoral thesis on integrated pollution control in the industrial sector. He is a graduate of the Universities of Cologne and Freiburg im Breisgau and was admitted to bar in Berlin in 2001.