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Melchior leads on policy work on global health and environmental governance.<\/p>\n

His\u00a0focus includes the UN plastic pollution negotiations, biodiversity and access and benefit sharing under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the Nagoya Protocol (NP), as well as vaccine policy and pathogen sharing.<\/p>\n

Prior to joining IFPMA, Melchior worked with the Intellectual Property Unit of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).<\/p>\n

He holds a master\u2019s degree in International Law from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and a bachelor\u2019s degree in Anthropology and Law from the London School of Economics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14201,"parent":0,"menu_order":41,"template":"","expert_type":[53],"class_list":["post-1669","experts","type-experts","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","expert_type-vaccines-policy"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nMelchior Kuo | IFPMA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ifpma.org\/experts\/melchior-kuo\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Melchior Kuo | IFPMA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Melchior leads on policy work on global health and environmental governance. 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