Chris Bird

Chris Bird is a Senior Lawyer at the Wellcome Trust, a global charitable foundation dedicated to achieving extraordinary improvements in human and animal health.  Chris has extensive experience of policy and legal issues relating to open access publishing, data sharing, digitisation and copyright as it relates to digital media:  he leads the Trust's legal work in these areas, as well as international science funding programmes and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.  Chris has served as a member of the PubMed Central Advisory Committee to the U.S. National Institutes of Health.