Julia Barnes-Weise

Julia Barnes-Weise, Juris Doctor, CLP is the founder and Executive Director of the Global Healthcare Innovation Alliances Accelerator (GHIAA), a non-profit that develops, and promotes the use of open access tools and best practices to increase equitable access.  Through GHIAA she has been a senior consultant to CEPI for over 7 years and consulted for other international organizations.  

She is trained as a lawyer, worked in the biopharma industry, and now works as a global health policy consultant, business development executive, and board member.  She is a Certified Licensing Professional (CLP).  

Julie formerly had a faculty appointment in the Duke School of Public Policy and was previously a Director of Business Development at GSK.  She has extensive experience negotiating licenses & alliance agreements. 

Her education includes a Juris Doctor degree from the University of North Carolina, a year at the Notre Dame London Law Centre studying international trade law, a BA from Ohio Wesleyan University and a program at Duke University’s Fuqua Business School in International Marketing.   

She has served on several task forces, including at Harvard Medical School and UC Berkeley’s Innovative Genomics Institute, and published on topics related to global public health security and equitable access.