VANESSA P. BAILEY 

Vanessa P. Bailey leads patent and trademark public policy for Amazon. Prior to joining Amazon, Ms. Bailey was the Global Director of Intellectual Property Policy at Intel Corporation where she was in charge of global IP policy and legislative reform issues including copyrights, patents, trade secrets, database rights and  trademarks.  She also counseled on the role of intellectual property law in artificial intelligence, data, and emerging technologies.

Ms. Bailey also worked at prominent full service law firms in IP litigation and prosecution and has spent many years in-house doing IP litigation, licensing and transactional work in the telecommunication industry where she managed many domestic and international multi-jurisdictional patent, trademark, and copyright litigation cases. 

She received her undergraduate degree and her J.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. She has a LL.M. from the University of London, Queen Mary and Westfield College in Commercial Law with a specialization in international patent law. Prior to law school she was a computer programmer in Copenhagen, Denmark. 

 In addition to U.S. courts, Ms. Bailey is also admitted to practice before the courts of England and Wales as a U.K. Solicitor.