Dhanay Cadillo Chandler is an University Researcher at the University of Lapland, Faculty of Law. In 2023 Dhanay was awarded the title of Docent/Adjunct Professor (Docentti) in Intellectual Property Law from the University of Lapland, Finland. She holds a PhD from Hanken School of Economics, Finland (2014), a Masters in Foreign Trade from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain (2006) and a law degree from Universidad Monteávila, Venezuela (2005). Dhanay was a Hauser Global Fellow, affiliated to NYU's  Engelberg Center for Innovation Law and Policy during 2019-2020. She was also appointed Visiting Professor at LUISS Guido Carli in 2020-2021, where she continues to collaborate. Additionally, was appointed as Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Turku Institute of Advanced Studies (TIAS) 2018-2019. She continues to be affiliated to the University of Turku, Faculty of Law. 

Dhanay's current research interest focus on the intersection between IPRs and sustainability, thus looking into different governance models, and forms of collaboration, in particular, multi-stakeholder partnerships. Her interest on multi-stake holder collaboration emerged as a result of many years of research in topics related to access to medicines, innovation, regulation and IPRs. In her writings, Dhanay has reflected on the role of interpretation when implementing exceptions to patents. This lead her interest in finding alternative soft-law approaches to foster collaboration and achieve SDG. Dhanay has writen extensively on these topics from a comparative law perspective. She has vast teaching experience at all levels in higher education at a national and intenational level. 

Involved in curriculum planning and implementation courses related to international transactions, IPRs, and international trade (WTO). Has been course responsible for more than 10 courses along her academic career, and she is a frequent guest lecturer in Finland and abroad.