Doctor Eméfa Valérie HOUANGNI HOUSSOKPO is a Doctor in Private Law. She defended her doctoral thesis at the University of Abomey-Calavi in 2020, in Intellectual Property Law on the theme : « Joint ownership of intellectual property rights in OAPI member states”. Today, Director of Studies at ERSUMA, she carries out several works on the seizure of business assets, the pledge of immaterial rights, Intellectual property rights and the links or consistencies between OHADA law and other community rights.

Dr HOUANGNI is a teacher of Private Law and has already published several articles including “Traditional knowledge : Challenges of acquiring intellectual property rights in the OAPI space, Proceedings of the Junior Conference on Intellectual Property Law, Doctoral School of the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences (FADESP)/ University of Abomey-Calavi, 4 august 2017, 26 pages, http://www.uac.bj and “Rural land reform in the Republic of Benin” 2013, African legal studies bookstore, Vol. 17, Konrad Adenauer Foundation, pp 1-20. http://www.kas.de/wf/doc/kas_37292-1522-2-30.pdf?140401110625.

She is currently Vice-President of the Beninese Association for the Promotion of Intellectual Property (ABPPI).