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We have interviewed, via email, Mr. Wend Wendland, he is Director of the Traditional Knowledge Division, at the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), and Secretary of the WIPO Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property, Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge, and Folklore.

He has worked at WIPO for more than two decades, knows the…