WIPO chief offers lessons in keeping young (updated)
26 February 2007
WIPO member states say they are considering how to respond to a report which concluded that the Organization's director general Kamil Idris repeatedly misrepresented his age. "This is not a witch hunt but it has to be resolved," said a member of one national delegation. "It's like the elephant in the room."
WIPO member states say they are considering how to respond to a report which concluded that the Organization's director general Kamil Idris repeatedly misrepresented his age. "This is not a witch hunt but it has to be resolved," said a member of one national delegation. "It's like the elephant in the room."
The report, carried out by WIPO's Internal Audit and Oversight Division and subsequently leaked to journalists in Geneva, says that Idris sought to change his records at WIPO to show that he was born on August 24 1954, despite signing numerous earlier documents showing his date of birth as August 24 1945.
The investigation was carried out at the request of the United Nations Joint Inspection Unit.
The report says that when Idris applied for a job at WIPO in 1982, his application form said that he was born in 1945. Had he made it clear he was...
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