Dr Maja Bogataj Jančič is the founder and head of the Intellectual Property Institute (IPI), a private research, training and consulting institution based in Ljubljana, Slovenia. IPI is accredited with permanent observer status at the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO). Maja is also the founder and head of the Open Data and Intellectual Property Institute ODIPI. She is a copyright expert; her recent work focuses on open science, open data, data governance and artificial intelligence, as well as open science issues and the legal framework of copyright and data for research and science. Maja is the National Coordinator for Slovenia and the Regional Coordinator for the six Western Balkan countries of the Knowledge Rights 21 project.

Maja is a member of the Expert Council of the Slovenian Open Science Community (SSOZ) and is also a head of the Expert Body for Legal Issues Related to Copyright and Data Governance. She is a member of the Advisory Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters (CLM) of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA). She is also a Board member of COMMUNIA. Maja is a president of the Supervisory Board of the National and University Library (NUK).

Maja was a 2023/2024 Associate Research Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard. In 2020-2023, she co-chaired the Data Governance Working Group of The Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI), where she is currently an expert member. She is also a representative and legal lead of Creative Commons Slovenia since 2004.

Maja graduated from the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana (1996) and received her masters at the Faculty of Ljubljana (1999, Economics), Harvard Law School (2000, Law), and Facoltà di Giurisprudenza di Torino (2005, Intellectual Property) and received her Ph.D. at the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana (2006, Copyright in the Digital Age).

She is the author of many publications in the field of intellectual property and co-author of various books regarding the internet and intellectual property law. Her research and academic work is focused on intellectual property, especially copyright. She participates in different international projects. Maja is an arbitrator in alternative dispute resolution proceedings for the resolution of domain name disputes regarding the use of the top-level domain .si and a representative for trademarks and designs.