Emanuella Giavarra

Emanuella Giavarra is a specialist international copyright and contract lawyer. In 1992, she was appointed the first Director of the European Bureau of Library, Information and Documentation Associations (EBLIDA). From 1996, she was Project Director of the European Copyright User Platform (EU Concerted Action).  In 1998, she joined the Chambers of Professor Mark Watson-Gandy a law office based in Amsterdam and London. At present, she is legal adviser to the Joint Information Systems Committee and JISC Collections in the UK and to eIFL.net (a 50-country consortium of mainly developing countries) in Italy and is, in this capacity, involved in the drafting and negotiations of consortia licences for the use of electronic data worldwide. In 1999, she was appointed a member of the Legal Advisory Board of the European Commission (DG-Information Society). In 2000, she won the prestigious European Woman of Achievement Award in recognition of her licensing efforts on behalf of the European library community.