Jennifer Tauli Corpuz is from the Kankana-ey Igorot People of Mountain Province in the Philippines. She is a lawyer by profession and currently the Global Policy and Advocacy Lead for Nia Tero, a US-based non-profit working in solidarity with Indigenous peoples and movements worldwide. Jennifer participates in the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) related negotiations on the protection of traditional knowledge and was involved in the negotiations leading to the adoption of the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-Sharing.