NIPO - Key Persons
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- Member of the Advisory Board
Dr. AP Singh is an eminent academician and expert in areas of commerce and agriculture and is a UGC research awardee working on issues relating to WTO Agreement on Agriculture and opportunities and challenges for Indian agri-business.
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- Member of the Advisory Board
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- Member of the Advisory Board
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- Indologist & Author
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- Chief Patron
Dr. RK Dhawan (National Intellectual Property Organization), immediate past President of NIPO, is a PhD in Public Administration from the Indian Institute of Public Administration New Delhi . He has held various senior level appointments in the Government of India and Civil Society and retired as Additional Director General of Foreign Trade from the Ministry of Commerce & Industry. He was appointed as Director General Federation of Indian Export Organizations and held the post from 1995-1997. Dr. Dhawan has a varied and rich experience in foreign trade policy and export promotion activities and has worked as Director General FIEO, Advisor in the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry) FICCI, is the Secretary General of Confederation of Indian Exporters (CIE), New Delhi and is in the Board of Directors of many leading private sector organizations. Dr. Dhawan has been in the Governing Body of the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade and has been regularly delivering lectures on trade policy and promotion as well as interacting actively with the electronic and print media on the subject.
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- Chairman, Policy Planning Council
Dr. S. Chakravarthy is a Civil Servant by profession. He was Special Chief Secretary, Government of Andhra Pradesh, Member, MRTP Commission, Member High Level Committee on Competition Policy and Law and Member of the new Indian Competition Law Drafting Committee. Presently he is a Consultant on Competition .
Dr. V.K. Gupta is a senior scientist presently researching the issues of intellectual property rights, WTO, and S&T policy reforms in the context of Indian R&D policy and management . His main areas of specialization include international affairs in science and technology, S&T policy and management, dual use technology and export controls, transfer of technology, and human resource management. He has more than 30 years of experience in these fields and has written several publications and technical reports.
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- Member of the Advisory Board
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- Director General Forests & Special Secretary ( Retd. )
- Director General Forests ( Retd. )
Mr. Mukerji is a recognized national expert in forestry sector planning , project management, evaluation and review, project formulation and investment planning & development, joint sector management & designing of institutional curricula for human resource development through training. He has also considerable international experience in his areas of specialization and had undertaken several international assignments as senior consultant on behalf of FAO, UNDP, UNEP, ADB, FORSPA and EU Commission.
Mr. Amarjit Singh is founder and senior partner, Amarjit and Associates law firm, New Delhi and registered patent agent under the Indian Patents Act. A highly experienced IP Attorney who has handled IP litigation in India as well as abroad, Mr Singh is visiting faculty in the Bureau of Parliamentary Studies and IP institutes across the country. He is a regular speaker at national seminars, conferences and workshops organized by the Government of India, Chambers of Commerce and Universities. Mr. Singh has acted as a counsel in over 3000 cases in India and has held senior positions in various professional and civic associations and has authoured numerous publications on IP law and enforcement issues.
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- Artist & Visionary Traditional Arts
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- Patents
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- Member of the Advisory Board
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- Member of the Advisory Board
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- Member of the Advisory Board
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- IPR Trainer & Consultant in GIs, TK, TMs, Copyrights, IP & Development
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- President
Prof. T.C. JAMES- President, NIPO - Prof. James is currently also Visiting Fellow, Research & Information System for Developing Countries and also Visiting Faculty, Indian Academy of International Law. He is also on the Guest Faculty of many law institutes. He is also Member of Speaker's Research Initiative and Member, Academic Council, Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya Shekhawati University, Sikar. He is a former Director, Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) Division (2001-2009), Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion, Ministry of Commerce & Industry, India. He has handled law and policy relating to various IPRs such as copyrights, geographical indications, designs, trademarks and patents. Earlier he had worked in the Copyright Office of India (1996-2001). He had been leader/member of Indian delegations on intellectual property rights (IPRs) to World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), WTO and UNO during 1996-2009. He had also been key negotiator on IPR matters in bilateral trade negotiations with many countries including Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, US and EU (2002-09). James was Research Advisor of the project 'Geographical Indications and Localisation' of the University of Warwick, National IPR Expert, UNIDO-ICAMT and also IPR Consultant, FICCI. Prof. James is author of Patent Protection and Innovation, Geographical Indications: Frequently Asked Questions, and Copyright: Frequently Asked Questions, India-Africa Partnership in Health Care and co-author of A Handbook of Copyright Law brought out by the Government of India, besides chapters in several books on intellectual property rights. He has published many papers on intellectual property rights, education, history and religion, besides poems, in journals and periodicals.