On 14 April, the candidates to be the next director general of the World Intellectual Property Organization faced WIPO member governments. The election will take place on 13 May.
Here are the candidates’ presentations.
Alicja Adamczak (Poland) [doc]
Toufiq Ali (Bangladesh) [pdf]
Jorge Amigo Castañeda (Mexico) [doc] (Spanish version [doc])
José Graça Aranha (Brazil) [doc]
Gjorgji Filipov (Macedonia) [pdf]
Francis Gurry (Australia) [doc]
Masood Khan (Pakistan) [doc]
Enrique Manalo (Philippines) [doc]
Mauro Masi has withdrawn from race
James Otieno Odek (Kenya) [doc]
Philippe Petit (France) [doc]
Bojan Pretnar (Slovenia) [doc]
Boris Simonov (Russia) could not be reached by press time
Yoshiyuki Takagi (Japan) [doc]
José Delmer Urbizo (Honduras) could not be reached by press time