Julia Barnes-Weise is the founder and Executive Director of the Global Healthcare Innovation Alliances Accelerator (GHIAA), a non-profit organization that develops and promotes the use of tools and best practices for global health alliance formation. In this capacity she has also been a senior consultant to CEPI for over six years. She is a lawyer, global health policy consultant, business development executive, entrepreneur and Certified Licensing Professional. Barnes-Weise formerly had a faculty appointment in the Duke Sanford School of Public Policy and was previously a Director of Business Development at Glaxo Wellcome (now GSK). She has decades of experience negotiating IP licenses & alliance agreements and advising companies and institutions on partnering strategies. Her educational background includes a Juris Doctor degree from the University of North Carolina, a year at the Notre Dame London Law Centre studying international trade law, a BA from Ohio Wesleyan University, and an executive program at Duke University's Fuqua Business School in International Marketing Leadership.