Nicole Foga is the Managing Partner in the law firm Foga, Daley & Co. She provides legal advice primarily in the areas of Telecommunications, Information Technology, Intellectual Property Policy Development, Utilities Regulation and Commercial Law. She has advised on commercial investments in Jamaica, technology transfer, software escrow, web hosting agreements and other contractual matters involving electronic commerce.

Ms. Foga is Chairman of the WIPO Caribbean Regional Committee on Electronic Commerce and Intellectual Property and Chairman of the Technology, Broadcasting and Telecommunications Committee of the Jamaican Bar Association. Ms. Foga is a Deputy Chairman of the Jamaican Copyright Tribunal and a Board member of the Town and Country Planning Authority, Kinston and Montego Bay Free Zones and Factories Corporation of Jamaica. Ms. Foga is also a Director and Secretary of the Environmental Foundation of Jamaica.

Ms Foga has acted as Legal Advisor to the Minister of Industry, Commerce and Technology and prior to establishing Foga, Daley & Co., she was the, General Counsel for the Office of Utilities Regulation, Legal Advisor to the Broadcasting Commission in Jamaica and a Crown Counsel in the Attorney General’s Chambers.

Ms. Foga qualified as an Attorney-at-Law in Jamaica in 1993 and holds a Master of Laws in Commercial Law from the Aberdeen University in Scotland, a Bachelor of Laws Degree as well as a Bachelor of Arts Degree with First Class Honours from the University of the West Indies. She has been a Tutor and Lecturer at the University of Technology and the Norman Manley Law School and a tutor at the Law faculty of the University of the West Indies.

Ms Foga has been an invited speaker at international and regional conferences and has authored and delivered many papers on telecommunications and intellectual property in the context of digital issues.
 

MEMBERSHIPS

Ms Foga is a member of the:
• Jamaican Bar Association
• Jamaica Computer Society,
• Society for Computers and the Law
• Computer Law Association
• International Telecommunications Society

Ms Foga is an Associate member of the:
• American Bar Association.
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)