The Top 250 Women in IP 2021

June 23 2021

Managing IP reveals this year's leading female intellectual property practitioners in private practice

Welcome to the 2021 edition of Managing IP's Top 250 Women in IP.

This special publication, which we launched in 2013, recognises some of the senior female IP practitioners in private practice who have performed exceptionally for their clients and firms in the past year.

This year’s list features more than 30 jurisdictions and different regions of the world. The research was conducted by the research analysts for our sister publication, IP STARS. Below the list is a summary of the methodology.

This list is among the research results we have announced for the 2021 edition of IP STARS. We have more 2021 edition content to announce in the coming weeks and months; for example, the Corporate IP Stars list (for in-house practitioners) will be revealed in September. Read about all the 2021 rankings here.

If you have questions, feedback or suggestions, please send them to our research team. The team will commence the research for the 2022 edition in September.

Congratulations to all the practitioners who made this year’s list.

Name	Jurisdiction
Iris V Quadrio	Argentina
Mercedes Bullrich	Argentina
Donna Short	Australia
Sarah Matheson	Australia
Lisa Ritson	Australia
Kate Haddock	Australia
Marion Heathcote	Australia
Rachel Hooke	Australia
Daneta Crump	Australia
Siabon Seet	Australia
Amanda Stark	Australia
Rebekah Gay	Australia
Kim O'Connell	Australia
Alyssa Telfer	Australia
Nele D'Halleweyn	Belgium
Ludivine Coulon	Belgium
Ann De Clercq	Belgium
Liesbeth Weynants	Belgium
Florence Verhoestraete	Belgium
Carina Gommers	Belgium
Isabel Milman	Brazil
Isabella Cardozo	Brazil
Elisabeth Siemsen do Amaral	Brazil
Laetitia Maria Alice d'Hanens	Brazil
Liliane Roriz	Brazil
Marianna Furtado de Mendonça	Brazil
Dominique Hussey	Canada
Janice M Bereskin	Canada
Melanie Baird	Canada
Justine Wiebe	Canada
Alison Hayman	Canada
Amalia Berg	Canada
D Lynne Watt	Canada
Lisa Melanson	Canada
Kristin Wall	Canada
May Cheng	Canada
Yoon Kang	Canada
Eileen McMahon	Canada
Christine Yiu	China
Spring Chang	China
Tian Tian	China
Lili Wu	China
Zhen (Katie) Feng	China
Tina Tai	China
Jan Liu	China
Bin Zhang	China
Linda Chang	China
Haiyan Ren	China
María Fernanda Castellanos	Colombia
Alicia Lloreda	Colombia
Anette Rasmussen	Denmark
Nina Ringen	Denmark
Ellen Breddam	Denmark
Camilla Rendal Nielsen	Denmark
Orietta Blanco	Dominican Republic
Maria Cecilia Romoleroux	Ecuador
Hanna-Maija Elo	Finland
Johanna Lilja	Finland
Laëtitia Bénard	France
Catherine Mateu	France
Anne-Charlotte Le-Bihan	France
Aurélia Marie	France
Karina Dimidjian-Lecomte	France
Eléonore Gaspar	France
Sabine Agé	France
Sophie Havard Duclos	France
Cyra Nargolwalla	France
Hélène Stankoff	France
Sarah Bailey	France
Cordula Schumacher	Germany
Sandra Pohlman	Germany
Andrea Jaeger-Lenz	Germany
Anne Katrin Schön	Germany
Christine Kanz	Germany
Olga Bezzubova	Germany
Miriam Kiefer	Germany
Sophie Ertl	Germany
Natalia Berryman	Germany
Isabella F C Liu	Hong Kong SAR
Alison Wong	Hong Kong SAR
Catherine Zheng	Hong Kong SAR
Sui-Yi (Andrea) Fong	Hong Kong SAR
Eszter Szakács	Hungary
Archana Shanker	India
Namrata Chadha	India
Niti Dewan	India
Monica Datta	India
Prudence Jahja	Indonesia
Lisa Yong	Indonesia
Hazel Tunney	Ireland
Aoife Murphy	Ireland
Laura Scott	Ireland
Karen Elburg	Israel
Dor Cohen Zedek	Israel
Mariangela Bogni	Italy
Simona Lavagnini	Italy
Elisabetta Papa	Italy
Noemi Parrotta	Italy
Donatella Capelli	Italy
Mami Hino	Japan
Tomoe Takahashi	Japan
Mitsuko Miyagawa	Japan
Minako Matsuyama	Japan
Karen Abraham	Malaysia
Charmayne Ong Poh Yin	Malaysia
Heidi Lindner	Mexico
Laura Collada	Mexico
Maria-Gemma Huijnen	Netherlands
Laura Fresco	Netherlands
Anne Marie Verschuur	Netherlands
Judith Krens	Netherlands
Amanda Griffiths	New Zealand
Charlotte Henley	New Zealand
Emily Ellis	New Zealand
Chinyere Okorocha	Nigeria
Kristine Rekdal	Norway
Ida Gjessing	Norway
Kari Simonsen	Norway
Camilla Vislie	Norway
Anne Marie Sejersted	Norway
Audrey Williams	Panama
Gabriella Tejada de Britton	Panama
Adriana Barrera	Peru
Susan Villanueva	Philippines
Divina Ilas-Panganiban	Philippines
Dorota Rzążewska	Poland
Magdalena Tagowska	Poland
Raluca Vasilescu	Romania
Ana-Maria Baciu	Romania
Margarita Divina	Russia
Natalia Gulyaeva	Russia
Pei Lin Low	Singapore
Winnie Tham	Singapore
Lorraine Tay	Singapore
Catherine Lee	Singapore
Michelle Ng	Singapore
Yvonne Tang	Singapore
Mariëtte du Plessis	South Africa
Gaelyn Scott	South Africa
Megan Reimers	South Africa
Jihyun Kim	South Korea
Young Sun Jung	South Korea
Ann Nam-Yeon Kwon	South Korea
Keum Nang Park	South Korea
Seo-young Lee	South Korea
Verena von Bomhard	Spain
Carolina Pina Sánchez	Spain
Sonia Santos	Spain
Montserrat Jané	Spain
Camilla Hamrin	Sweden
Karin Westerberg	Sweden
Sara Sparring	Sweden
Helena Wassén Öström	Sweden
Eva-Maria Strobel	Switzerland
Lara Dorigo	Switzerland
Ulrike Ciesla	Switzerland
Lorenza Ferrari Hofer	Switzerland
Gloria Lu	Taiwan
Joyce Ho	Taiwan
Sukontip Jitmongkolthong	Thailand
Özge Atilgan Karakulak	Turkey
Yasemin Kenaroglu	Turkey
Selma Ünlü	Turkey
Victoria Sopilnyak	Ukraine
Joycia Young	United Arab Emirates
Sara Holder	United Arab Emirates
Marjan Noor	UK (England)
Jessica Le Gros	UK (England)
Catherine Wiseman	UK (England)
Morag Macdonald	UK (England)
Emma Pitcher	UK (England)
Susan Kirsch	UK (England)
Vanessa Marsland	UK (England)
Sarah Wright	UK (England)
Tamsin Holman	UK (England)
Kathleen Fox Murphy	UK (England)
Kate Swaine	UK (England)
Shireen Peermohamed	UK (England)
Amanda Simons	UK (England)
Carrollanne Lindley	UK (England)
Nicola Dagg	UK (England)
Sally Britton	UK (England)
Arty Rajendra	UK (England)
Charlotte Weekes	UK (England)
Caroline Marshall	UK (England)
Penny Gilbert	UK (England)
Rachel Alexander	UK (England)
Alison Bryce	UK (Scotland)
Deanna Tanner Okun	United States
Meredith Martin Addy	United States
Rhonda Trotter	United States
Lisa Rosaya	United States
Susan Smith	United States
Brenda Jarrell	United States
Heidi Keefe	United States
Terry Rea	United States
Bindu Donovan	United States
Jennifer Ko Craft	United States
Lisa Haile	United States
Daralyn Durie	United States
Sally Abel	United States
Erika Harmon Arner	United States
Juanita Brooks	United States
Barbara Fiacco	United States
Allison Strickland Ricketts	United States
Jane Love	United States
Elizabeth Holland	United States
Susan Heller	United States
Lisabeth Coakley	United States
Purvi Patel Albers	United States
Andrea Anderson	United States
Anessa Owen Kramer	United States
Karen Artz Ash	United States
Linda McLeod	United States
Lisa Pearson	United States
Lori Gordon	United States
Dale Cendali	United States
Salima Merani	United States
Sherry Knowles	United States
Lisa Kobialka	United States
Arlene Chow	United States
Lisa Ferri	United States
Sarah Chapin Columbia	United States
Eleanor Lackman	United States
Carla Oakley	United States
Karen Ann Jacobs	United States
Catherine Polizzi	United States
Lisa Pensabene	United States
Annette Hurst	United States
Shannon Bloodworth	United States
Kecia Reynolds	United States
Anna Kuhn	United States
Fangli Chen	United States
Victoria Maroulis	United States
Li-Hsien (Lily) Rin-Laures	United States
Jill Pietrini	United States
Sharon Israel	United States
Ching-Lee Fukuda	United States
Lori Lesser	United States
Eldora Ellison	United States
Mandy Wilson Decker	United States
Kalpana Srinivasan	United States
Devika Kornbacher	United States
Elizabeth Weiswasser	United States
Anita Varma	United States
Amy Wigmore	United States
Kathi Vidal	United States
Anne Shea Gaza	United States
Virginia Cervieri	Uruguay
Linh Thi Mai Nguyen	Vietnam

Research methodology

The practitioners recognised this year were selected from our general IP STARS list for 2021, which can be found on ipstars.com.

When deciding who to select for the Top 250 Women in IP publication, our research analysts took account of all the available research information obtained for the 2021 edition of IP STARS as well as the Managing IP Awards. They can also select an individual based on their own independent research findings.

There is no special form or survey for individuals to complete in order to be considered for this publication. There is no fee to pay to participate in our research. No firm or practitioner can pay to be ranked. All our rankings are subject to change each year. See the 2020 list here.

Read more about our research methodology here.