Dr. Pag-yendu M. Yentcharé is a Faculty member at the Centre for Law, Technology and Society, and an Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ottawa.
An interdisciplinary scholar, Dr. Pag-yendu M. Yentcharé’s research lies at the intersection of law, technology, and environmental governance. He examines how emerging technologies – such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, and gene-editing technologies – interact with global environmental regulation and public policy, and how Indigenous Peoples’ and Local Communities’ Traditional Knowledge, understood as a technology in its own right, is governed at the nexus of intellectual property and environmental law.
His recent monograph, “Brevets, ressources génétiques et savoirs traditionnels: la fabrique d’un droit international de la reconnaissance” (Patents, Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge: The Making of an International Law of Recognition), published by Pedone (2025), is based on his doctoral thesis and received the Special Prize of the French Society for Environmental Law, awarded for its “audacity, originality and scientific risk-taking in making a substantial contribution to law.”
Dr. Yentcharé’s scholarship has been recognized and supported by numerous competitive grants and awards from major public and international funding bodies in North America, Europe, and Africa, including the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Quebec Research Fund, the Centre for International Governance Innovation, the European Commission, and the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa.
Prior to joining the University of Ottawa, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Research Chair on Smart Contracts and Blockchain at Université Laval (Canada), and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Intellectual Property Unit of the Faculty of Law, University of Cape Town (South Africa). He holds an LL.D. from Université Laval (Canada), a Master’s in Economic Ethics and Sustainable Development from the West African School for Moral and Political Science (Cote d’Ivoire), and an LL.M. in Law from Saint Thomas Aquinas University (Burkina Faso).
He currently serves as a One Health Specialist with Nature for Health, an international multi-partner initiative focused on pandemic prevention through strengthened environmental governance, and as an Expert Member of the African Union Commission’s Working Group on Indigenous Populations/Communities and Minorities in Africa.