Tahir Amin

Co-Founder, Initiative for Medicines, Access & Knowledge

Tahir Amin is an attorney with more than 25 years of experience in intellectual property law. From this vantage point, Amin could see clearly how systems are shaped by those with the most resources—and how those outcomes often come at the expense of those with the least. In 2004, Amin gave up his lucrative job in London and moved to Bangalore, India, where he was instrumental to the passage of a health-friendly patent law. That process led him to eventually co-found I-MAK, with the express purpose of re-shaping patent law to better serve the public.