James Love (NGO director)

Jamie Love
Love in Finland, 2009
Born	James Packard Love 1949/1950 (age 67–68)
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Kennedy School of Government Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
Occupation	Director, Knowledge Ecology International
Spouse(s)	Manon Ress
Children	2

James Packard "Jamie" Love (born 1950) is the director of Knowledge Ecology International, formerly known as the Consumer Project on Technology, a non-governmental organization with offices in Washington, D.C. and Geneva, that works mainly on matters concerning knowledge management and governance, including intellectual property policy and practice and innovation policy, particularly as they relate to health care and access to knowledge.

An adviser to a number of United Nations agencies, national governments, international and regional intergovernmental organizations and public health NGOs, Love is US co-chair of the Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue Working Group on Intellectual Property, founder and Chairman of Essential Inventions, Chairman of the Union for the Public Domain, Chairman of the Civil Society Coalition, and in the past has been a member of the MSF working groups on Intellectual Property and Research and Development, the Adelphi Charter on Creativity, Innovation and Intellectual Property and the Initiative for Policy Dialogue Task Force on Intellectual Property.

Love was born in 1950, and grew up in Bellevue, Washington, and after finishing high school, went to work in the Alaskan fisheries.

Before graduate school, Love lived and worked in Alaska for 13 years. In addition to working as a commercial fisherman, cannery worker, and longshoreman, Love founded two non-profit organizations; the Open Door Clinic, a free medical clinic located in Anchorage, Alaska, and the Alaska Public Interest Research Group (AkPIRG). Love was a member of the State of Alaska Investment Advisory Committee when the Alaska Permanent Fund was created, and played an important role in persuading the State of Alaska to use profit share leasing methods for the 1979 Beaufort Sea oil and gas lease sale.

Love was later Senior Economist for the Frank Russell Company, a Lecturer at Rutgers University, and a researcher on international finance at Princeton University. He received a Masters of Public Administration from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, and a Masters in Public Affairs from the Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.