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The future of IP includes women

To celebrate the 2023 World Intellectual Property Day, inspiring personalities across the globe share their messages of support for women inventors, creators and entrepreneurs, highlighting how we all benefit when more women join the IP universe. Let’s work together to ensure more women use and benefit from the IP system!

Salome Zourabichvili

President of Georgia

Margareth Menezes

Minister of Culture, Brazil

Lisa Jorgenson

Deputy Director General Patents and Technology Sector,
IP and Gender Champion, WIPO

Aisha Bowe

Former NASA rocket scientist & entrepreneur (USA)

Shontelle Layne

Singer/songwriter (Barbados)

Yvonne Chaka Chaka

Singer/songwriter (South Africa)

S.E. Mme l’Ambassadrice Lotte Knudsen

Cheffe de la délégation permanente de l’Union européenne auprès de l’Office des Nations Unies et des autres organisations internationales à Genève

Sandra Charris

Présidente, Tribunal de justice de la Communauté andine

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Director General, WTO

Doreen Bogdan-Martin

Secretary General, ITU

Pamela Coke-Hamilton

Executive Director, ITC

María Fernanda Garza

Chair of the ICC & CEO of Orestia

Riccardo Deserti

Director General, Consortio Parmigiano Reggiano & President of OriGIn

Etienne Sanz de Acedo

CEO, International Trademark Association (INTA)

Jomarie Fredericks

President, INTA

Elisabeth Bradley

Vice President of INTA

Carla Barbotó

CEO, PACARI® (Ecuador)

Marion Heathcote

Davies Collison Cave (Australia) and INTA

Jessie Zheng

Alibaba Group (China)

Lee Insil

Commissioner, Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO)

Dr Hayat Sindi

Goodwill Ambassador at UNESCO for STEM (Saudi Arabia)

Claudia do O Pessoa

Professor, Federal University of Ceará (Brazil)

Olga Malinkiewicz

Saule Technologies SA (Poland)

Deborah Hampton

Chemours & INTA

Heather Steinmeyer

INTA

Fatma Said

Opera singer (Egypt)

Kathi Vidal

Director, USPTO, and three female entrepreneurs

Nancy Ip, professeure, Jane Lee, illustratrice, et Ella Cheong, avocate, sur les femmes et la propriété intellectuelle

Département de la propriété intellectuelle, Gouvernement de la région administrative spéciale de Hong Kong