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Clark Peteru

Clark Peteru is a founding member and member of the Call of the Earth Steering Committee. He is an Environmental Legal Adviser at SPREP, the South Pacific Regional Environment Programme, an Inter-Governmental Organisation.

Previously he was a lawyer in private practice in Samoa where a large amount of his work focused on intellectual property, and access and benefit-sharing. From 1991-1994, Clark was the director of the Siosiomaga Society, a Samoan environmental NGO which at that time did a lot of work on rainforest conservation. Clark became involved in intellectual property issues in 1995 when working for the Fiji-based Pacific Concerns Resource Centre (PCRC).

He helped organise the UNDP Pacific Regional Consultation on Indigenous Intellectual Property rights for the PCRC, and drafted the Treaty & Related Protocols for a Lifeforms Patent Free Pacific developed through the Pacific Consultation Meeting. Since then, Clark has attended many meetings and workshops on IP policy relating to genetic resources, access and benefit-sharing and traditional knowledge, particularly meetings of the Convention on Biological Diversity.

Clark helped draft Model Laws for the Protection of Expressions of Culture for Pacific Island Developing States, and has been very active within the Pacific region on intellectual property issues and genetic resources for food and agriculture, working with UNESCO, the Secretariat for the Pacific Community and the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat.

Clark Peteru (Samoa) Photo:Aroha Mead