Julio Raffo

Julio Raffo is Head of the Innovation Economy Section at the Department of Economics and Data Analytics of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Before joining WIPO, he conducted research at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL, Switzerland); the Institut Français des Relations Internationales (IFRI, France); the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO, USA); and, the Red Iberoamericana/Interamericana de Indicadores de Ciencia y Tecnología (RICYT). He holds an Economics degree from the Universidad de Buenos Aires, a Master degree in Industrial Organization, Innovations and International Strategy and a PhD in Economics from the Université de Paris Nord. His main research interests are the economics and metrics of innovation and intellectual property, with a particular focus on their intersection with socioeconomic development.