15 candidates compete for WIPO DG role
13 February 2008
Eklavya Gupte, London
Fifteen candidates have been nominated to stand for the post of the new director-general for WIPO. Six nominations were received by the Organization yesterday, while three applications were finalized today
The names are a mixture of senior WIPO staff, ambassadors and permanent representatives of member states along with directors of their country's patent offices.
The nominations received were Masood Khan, permanent representative to the Permanent Mission of Pakistan to Geneva; Australia's Francis Gurry, deputy director-general of WIPO; Toufiq Ali, permanent representative of the Permanent Mission of Bangladesh in Geneva; Jorge Amigo Castañeda, director-general of the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property; Mauro Masi, delegate for IP in Italy;...
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