Pascale Boulet

Pascale Boulet is a lawyer with 20 years of experience in intellectual property laws and policies, with a focus on access to medicines in low and middle-income countries. Today Pascale works as Intellectual Property and Access Leader in the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) and contributes to Medicines Law and Policy. Pascale co-authored the first WHO publication on the impact of intellectual property on access to medicines, Globalization and Access to Drugs: Perspectives on the WTO/TRIPS Agreement published in 1997. Since then she has worked and consulted widely on intellectual property and access to medicines. She also served as a patent consultant to the Medicines Patent Pool for many years and contributed to the conceptualisation and initial data management of its landmark MedsPaL database.

Prior to joining DNDi, Pascale worked as Senior Legal Advisor of Médecins sans Frontières’ (MSF) Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines, and also served three years in the WHO Department on Essential Medicines. She has a Master of Laws in International Economic Law from the University of Panthéon-Sorbonne in Paris.