Professor Roya Ghafele is the founder and Managing Director of OxFirst, (www.oxfirst.com) an award-winning law and economics consultancy specialised in the valuation of patents, copyright and other forms of Intellectual Property Rights for litigation, licensing, investment and sales purposes. Her economic assessments have also found application in transfer pricing and IP management.

Professor Ghafele has worked as an Economist in the seminal case Unwired Planet vs Huawei at the Supreme Court of England and Wales. She also worked as an economic expert at the Supreme Court of British Columbia in Canada. She also testified on the economics of IP and Competition Law at the High Court of England and Wales, the Regional Court of Munich, the Regional Court of Mannheim in Germany, as well as with the Paris Tribunal in France. She also testified several times on IP matters at the European Parliament, the European Commission and the UK Intellectual Property Office. In addition, her economic assessments have also supported policy decisions, both at the national and international level. Professor Ghafele has more than seventy scientific publications to her name and presented at more than 100 conferences in IP and Competition around the world.

Under Professor Ghafele’s leadership, OxFirst has won the ‘Best IP Valuation Firm in the UK’ award by Global 100. Professor Ghafele and OxFirst have also been awarded by magazines such as Intellectual Asset Management, The International lawyer or SME News. Prof. Ghafele has also been regularly recognized as ‘Most Inspiring Business Leader’ and ‘Female Entrepreneur of the Year’ by a host of different business magazines.