As head of IP for research at CSL, Amanda is a senior member of the IP leadership team at CSL, reporting to the chief IP Officer. In this role, she is principal IP advisor and business partner to CSL’s head of global research and an active member of the research leadership team, contributing to CSL’s Research strategy, as well as portfolio and partnership management. Her team supports CSL’s interests across their global research network in Australia, the US and Europe. The CSL global IP team is responsible for IP portfolio management, FTO assessments, third party IP risk mitigation, including litigation and disputes, and IP education. The team also plays a key role due diligence, negotiations, transactions and partnership management. Amanda completed a Bachelor Science / Bachelor Art at Monash University, and subsequently a PhD in Organic and medicinal chemistry. After graduate school, she made the jump to IP law, first at Phillips Ormonde Fitzpatrick and later at Davies Collison Cave. She qualified as a Trans Tasman Patent and Tarde Mark Attorney in 2012. After a decade in private practice, she moved inhouse to RMIT in 2018, before joining CSL in 2019 where she has held various positions.