DELI YANG is R. Burr and D. Clark Professor in International Business at Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, USA. She has a BSc in Economics, an MBA and MSc in IB, and a PhD of Management Science in International Management of Intellectual Property. Before embarking on her academic career, she also had professional experience in government policy and international trading. Since the early 1990s, she has been researching IP from the IB angle. She has also been collaborating with multinationals and academics across the world on projects related to IP businesses. As a consultant of the World IP Organization, UN, she has been actively involved with benchmarking global IP systems.