Olivier de Combret joined CHANEL is 2013 where he currently works as Trademark and Anti-Counterfeit Legal Counsel. He previously worked on distribution and competition matters.

He has been following closely the discussions on Internet matters, intermediary liability and has engaged with many of the major internet players to reduce the visibility of infringing content online. Since the signature by CHANEL in 2016, Olivier has been very active in the debates of the MoU on counterfeit sales online.

Olivier de Combret graduated in 2013 from Panthéon-Assas University in Paris from a master’s in industrial Property law, after studies in Kyushu University, Japan.

Christian Peugeot has an important career in the automotive industry. In 1978, he is a facilitator and trainer in the various Automobile Peugeot factories. In 1981, he was appointed director of the commercial subsidiary Saint-Didier Malakoff, and a few years later, his career took an international dimension when being appointed General Manager of Peugeot Germany in 1989. He joined PSA where he held various positions (Director Marketing, Director of Public Affairs), until 2016, when he became the chairman of the Committee of French Manufacturers of Automobiles (CCFA). He holds several other positions such as Board Member FPP (Peugeot Family Assets Trust), Board Member SEB, Chairman and CEO AMC Promotion (Paris Motor Show organizer), Chairman and CEO AAA Data (CCFA’s data subsidiary).

Senior Minister Plenipotentiary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he graduated from the IEP de Paris, holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University Paris II and is an alumnus of the National School of Administration (ENA).

Chargé d’affaires in Egypt, he then became the French Ambassador to Togo, Mexico, Greece, Spain and Brazil. He has also been Counsellor for Africa to the French President and General Director of the coopération internationale et du développement at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Head of Entreprise & Diplomatie, a wholly-owned subsidiary of ADIT, since it was established in 2014, he monitors all business diplomacy missions and offers clients 40 years of diplomatic experience.

Sophie Peresson is director of the Business Action to Stop Counterfeiting and Piracy (BASCAP) of the International Chamber of Commerce. She was previously director of Transparency International’s global health and pharmaceuticals programme, where she worked on counterfeiting, corruption and ethical business-practice issues. Ms Peresson has spearheaded several publications and has an established track record of managing multi-country projects and leading research and policy analysis.

She graduated from the Sorbonne law school and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. She recently completed an MSc at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She speaks English and French and has a good command of Spanish.

Ms. Christa Brzozowski is a Senior Executive with 18 years in the U.S. Government. Christa currently serves as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Foreign Investment & Trade Policy, within the Department of Homeland Security, Office of Policy. In her position, Christa is responsible for multiple economic competitiveness and trade-related security issues, to include cross-border e-Commerce, supply chain security, national security reviews of foreign investment, and an array of trade facilitation and enforcement topics. In addition, Christa serves as the Co-Chair of the OECD Task Force on Countering Illicit Trade, which works to enhance cooperative mechanisms across law enforcement institutions to instill good governance and counter organized criminal networks.

Prior to her current position, Christa served as Trade Counselor to DHS Secretary Johnson and (2014-2016) and as Director for Global Supply Chain Security at the National Security Council staff in the White House (2011-2013) where she led the development of Executive Order 13659: Streamlining the Export/Import Process for America’s Businesses (2014) and the National Strategy for Global Supply Chain Security (2012).

Christa has received master’s degrees from the University of Cambridge, England (History), Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. (Liberal Arts/Political Theory), and most recently from the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA (Homeland Defense and Security).

Mrs. Evdokia Moise is senior trade policy analyst at the OECD. She is responsible for the OECD work in the area of trade facilitation, including the OECD Trade Facilitation Indicators (TFIs).

At the OECD since 1990 she has worked on regulatory issues affecting market openness and trade, trade and environment, intellectual property protection, regional trade agreements, technical barriers to trade. Before joining the OECD she worked in a private law firm in Athens. She holds a Masters of Law Degree from the University of Athens and a DEA of International Law from Paris II University.

Caroline Malcolm heads the OECD’s Blockchain Policy Centre, the global reference point on distributed ledger technologies for policymakers. The Centre works with a broad group of stakeholders to understand and assess the policy implications of this emerging technology, to ensure governments can access and respond to the opportunities and challenges it raises.

Caroline is an Australian-qualified lawyer, with a background in international tax law. She previously established the Tax Inspectors Without Borders project, a joint OECD-UNDP initiative to build tax audit skills in low-capacity countries through a learning-by-doing approach, and worked on the G20 tax transparency and multinational tax agendas.

Mr Laurent MARCADIER worked between 1997 and 2004 as a judicial magistrate, in the prosecutor's office in Créteil (94) in the organised crime department (drugs, weapons, human trafficking and counterfeit).

He then held the position of Secretary General of the Paris Regional Court, followed by the Paris Court of Appeal. Appointed Chief of Staff of the Secretary of State for Justice in 2009, he then joined the staff of the Minister of the Interior in 2011.

In 2013, he joined the LVMH Group as Assets and Persons Protection Director.

Marie Sellier has been Vice-President Public Affairs at Vivendi since 2016. She has more than 15 years’ experience in public affairs & regulation with an expertise on digital media & creative industries, where she has worked extensively on Intellectual Property issues.

Prior to that, she worked as a business and financial analyst in the telecoms sector, focusing on project financing and mergers & acquisitions.

Marie Sellier holds an MBA degree from New York University, London School of Economics and HEC (TRIUM). She is a graduate from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris and holds a Master from the University Paris II Pantheon-Assas.

Mr. Jeffrey Schlagenhauf, an American national, took up his duties as a Deputy Secretary-General of the OECD at the beginning of May2019.

Prior to joining the OECD, Mr. Schlagenhauf served as the White House’s Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) Associate Director for Economic Policy. In that role, heservedas the top economic advisor to the Director. Mr Schlagenhauf represented OMB in the “Troika” process that determined the economic assumptions underlying the Administration’s annual budget. As head of the Economic Policy Division, he supervised a team of career economists and the Evidence Team that focuses on implementing evidence-based policy making across the U.S.federal government.

Before joining the White House Budget Office, Mr Schlagenhauf worked in the public policy arena for nearly four decades. He served for more than a decade as a senior staff member of the Congressional Joint Economic Committee, including serving as the committee’s Executive Director and Republican Staff Director. Mr. Schlagenhauf also served as a senior staff member in both the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives, including serving as Chief of Staff to U.S. Representative Thomas J. Bliley, Jr. of Virginia.

Mr. Schlagenhauf’s non governmental experience included serving as President of a national trade association, a private consultant, and as an Economic Policy Advisor to the Donald J.Trump for President campaign in 2016.

Mr Schlagenhauf was born and raised in Western New York. He remains a diehard fan of both American football’s Buffalo Bills and hockey’s Buffalo Sabres.

Mr. Schlagenhauf is a graduate of the College of William and Mary in Virginia.In 1998, he was appointed by the Governor of Virginia to serve as a member of the university’s Board of Visitors.

Rupert SCHLEGELMILCH, studied law and political science in Freiburg/Br. and in Berlin.

Mr SCHLEGELMILCH joined the German Foreign Service in 1987 where he worked on international environmental issues and Cultural Diplomacy.

He joined the European Commission (EC) Directorate General for External Relations in 1993.

From 1998 to 2003 he worked on WTO matters in the EC in Geneva, followed by extensive work in Brussels on Trade and Sustainable Development and relations with Civil Society. From 2002 to 2006,Mr SCHLEGELMILCH was responsible for the EU’s bilateral trade relations with China, and later for the Trade Relations with the Americas and South Asia, Korea and ASEAN.

From 2011 until October 2016, he was the Director for Trade in Services, Investment, Government Procurement and the protection of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR).He has been the EU's Chief negotiator for the EU-Singapore, the EU-Ukraine Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and the ongoing EU Mercosur Free Trade Agreement.

Elena Blobel is Director of Litigation at IFPI. Before joining IFPI in 2011, she worked for the regional government of Brandenburg in Germany in the policy department for media law and she was for many years a research assistant at the Erich Pommer Institute at Potsdam University conducting research in the area of copyright law and public and private media law. She holds a doctoral degree from University of Potsdam, and law degrees from Humboldt University Berlin and University Paris II Assas (Licence and Maîtrise en droit).

Amaryllis Verhoeven is Head of the Intellectual Property Unit at the European Commission (DG GROW F3). She joined the European Commission in 2001 and has worked on a wide range of issues related to building and functioning of the Single Market as well as on energy policy issues. Amaryllis has a Ph.D. in law and political theory and holds an LL.M. degree of Harvard Law School. She lectures at the Law Faculty of the KU Leuven (Belgium) and has authored a book & academic articles. Before joining the European Commission, Amaryllis worked as an attorney in the offices of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton.

Rodolphe Gintz was appointed Director General of the French Customs and Excise Administration (DGDDI).

As head of this Administration, Rodolphe GINTZ oversees 17 000 employees, manages a budget of €1.6 billion and ensures the effective implementation of the French Customs’ efforts to protect national security while promoting economic prosperity and security.

The DGDDI is a trade regulation administration that is responsible for facilitating and securing flows of goods. It facilitates trade, prevents and fights fraud, and collects excise duties on tobacco, alcohol, oil products and electricity, VAT on imports from countries outside the European Union and customs duties on imports entering the EU.

Prior to joining the DGDDI, Rodolphe Gintz worked as senior advisor of President Hollande on his financial, fiscal and tax agenda (2015-2017). He oversaw the preparation of the budget bills and the 2016 transparency, anti-corruption and economic modernisation bill. His work focused on cutting both corporation tax and personal income tax, income tax withholding at source and the implementation of OECD Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) measures.

From 2012 to 2014, Rodolphe Gintz headed up the public finances team of the French Prime Minister private office. He was in charge of his fiscal agenda, especially for defining public expenditure savings.

Rodolphe Gintz also worked for 10 years in the Budget Directorate at the Ministry for Finance (2002-2012). He held various positions, particularly focusing on transport, education and social policies. As such, he was board member of many publicly-owned companies and public institutions. Rodolphe Gintz was also a lecturer in public finances at the Ecole Nationale d’Administration, the top French public affairs school.

Rodolphe Gintz graduated with a master’s degree in science and engineering from the Ecole Polytechnique (1999) and the Ecole des Ponts ParisTech (2002).

He is married and has two children.

Ms. Perlmutter serves as a policy advisor to the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property,overseeing the U.S.Patent and Trademark Office’steams of domestic and international IP policy experts,international education and training programs,global advocacy through the IP Attaché program,and the Office of the Chief Economist. Prior to joining the USPTO, Ms.Perlmutter held the positions of Executive Vice President for Global Legal Policy at the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI); Vice President and Associate General Counsel for Intellectual Property Policy at Time Warner; consultanton copyright and e-commerce at the World Intellectual Property Organization; and Associate Register for Policy and International Affairs at the U.S. Copyright Office. Shewas previously a law professor at The Catholic University of America, after practicing law in New YorkCity.She received her A.B. from Harvard University and J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.

Karen Ghysels is responsible for the European Consumer Centre in Belgium. ECC Belgium is part of a European network with colleagues in all the member states, Norway and Iceland. These centres work closely on a day to day basis to help consumers find a solution for their cross border consumer query. ECC’s are therefore the face of Europe for consumers. Their service is free of charge.

The ECC Belgium team that she is leading consists of 4 lawyers, 1 communication officer and 1 case handler.

ECC Belgium is also appointed contact point for the ODR platform, for geoblocking and the service directive.

She obtained a law degree at the University of Namur, Antwerp and Hull. She became director of the center after working for 5 years as legal adviser at ECC Belgium and working for 6 years at the Belgian Embassy in Spain. She speaks Dutch, French, English and Spanish.

Marco Giorello has been the Head of Unit for Copyright in the European Commission (DG CONNECT) since 2017. He has been working in Copyright since 2011. Italian and lawyer by training, he has worked for the European Commission for more than 15 years, covering numerous areas of the European Internal Market policy. He has been directly involved in the planning and negotiations of the Copyright reform, including the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market. Prior to joining the European Commission, he worked for an Italian law firm and lectured on EU Law. He holds an LLM in European Law awarded by the College of Europe in Bruges (1998).

Born 6 April 1958, in Naples, Italy, graduated in law, admitted to the bar, he has been appointed Director-General for Fight against counterfeiting and head of IPTO (Italian patent and trademark office/UIBM ) at Ministry of Economic Development in march 2019.

Before this he served as Italy's International Trade Policy Director-General: in that capacity he was the Italian Full Member in the EU Council TPC, dealing with global trade talks (in the framework of the WTO, OECD, G20), and has been head of the Italian delegation in many international trade meetings (at senior or even ministerial level), from 2001 and 2019.

During this period Mr Teti has been the main adviser to the Deputy Ministers and Secretaries of State for Foreign trade and Foreign Direct Investment Attraction.

Before his nomination, he served as head of unit (and previously as trade officer) in the former Ministry of Foreign Trade ( now merged into the Ministry of Economic Development ), since 1988.

Previously, he served as Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Innovation & IP at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, where he was responsible for developing and overseeing U.S. trade policy related to innovation and IP and served as the lead IP negotiator for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Probir previously served as Associate General Counsel at USTR, where he provided legal counsel and analysis on intellectual property, standards, labor, and trade preference programs for emerging markets. He also represented the United States in litigation before the World Trade Organization. While at USTR, he was selected to serve as a senior advisor to the U.S. Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator where he developed and coordinated innovation-related international economic policy.

Prior to his government service, Probir practiced law in Washington, DC, clerked for the Honorable Federico A. Moreno of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, was a Visiting Scholar at the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences in Kolkata, India, and an Associate Professorial Lecturer in Law at The George Washington University Law School.

Probir holds a B.A. from the University of Michigan, a MSc. from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a J.D. from the George Washington University Law School.

Slawomir Tokarski obtained PhD degree at the European University Institute in Florence in 1995.

He joined the Polish administration and headed a team co-ordinating the preparations for the accession negotiations and preparing policy analysis for the Chief Negotiator.

In 2004 he joined the Commission as a Cabinet member of the Commissioner responsible for the regional policy. In 2009 he was nominated Head of Unit dealing with economic policy and co-ordination of EU funding in DG MARE.

In March 2012 he became Head of Defence, Aeronautics and Maritime industries in DG Enterprise.

Since February 2016 Mr Tokarski became Director, Dir F "Innovation and Advanced manufacturing" (DG GROW).

Chris has 44 years service in HM Customs and Excise and HM Revenue and Customs, with the past 37 years in the criminal investigation and intelligence disciplines.

Having recently concluded a tour of duty as Counsellor for Fiscal Crime Liaison at the British Embassy, Washington DC, he is now leading a series of cross cutting projects for HMRC Organised Crime Operations.

He has wide international experience. He opened the first drugs liaison post in Paris in 1992 and returned to France in 2002 to perform the fiscal crime role. Between 2006 and 2009 he led the HMRC Fiscal Crime Liaison Network, driving through a significant expansion programme in China, Malaysia, Eastern Europe and the UAE. During the period 2009 to 2012 he was deputy head of Criminal Investigation Operations in London and South East England.

He has been involved in the UK tackling tobacco smuggling strategy since it’s inception in 2000, and has managed intelligence and criminal investigation operations in this sphere, both in the UK and abroad. He has also undertaken several secondments, to the police regional crime squads, to the National Criminal Intelligence Service, and to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office - for the strategic drugs survey of Central Asia 2001/02. He is co-chair of the OECD Countering Illicit Trade Taskforce and a member of the Global Initiative against Transnational Organised Crime.

An avid supporter of Sunderland Football Club and an accredited youth coach, his other leisure interests include reading, walking his dog and blues music.

He has extensive experience in trade and customs matters, in security policy and in international relations. Before joining DG TRADE, he spent his career in DG TAXUD of the European Commission, at NATO International Staff and at the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Charles leads Amazon’s Customer and Partner Trust legal team, which helps ensure the integrity of the buying and selling experience in Amazon’s stores. Charles and his team support the business teams that lead the fight against counterfeits, fraud, and abuse; protect brands on Amazon; keep restricted products out of Amazon’s stores; and build the tools and services that enable Amazon’s selling partners to offer customers authentic selection at great prices. Previously, Charles was a member of Amazon’s Litigation and Regulatory team, where he handled a wide variety of IP, competition, contract, and other disputes. Charles holds a JD from the University of Washington.

Frank Imbescheid, PR Director at Duracell likes to “empower. The trained journalist started his career in Germany in the early 90s at Wella by building the hair care company’s expertise in trend and lifestyle communication.

Joining Procter & Gamble in Geneva in 2004, he developed international PR campaigns for various consumer brands. This included a Cause Related Communication campaign with UNESCO as partner, getting more teenage girls into school in underprivileged parts of the world by providing access to sanitary feminine protection.

Moving to Duracell in 2015 he became the speaker of the company for the region Europe and Africa. In addition to this role he also assumed presidency of the European and the British & Irish Portable Battery Association. Managing Corporate as well as Issue & Crisis Communication, Government Relations became his focus. Having majored in Political Science facilitates his work with the European Commission, in particular with the Directorate General Environment (Revision of the Battery Directive) and the Directorate General Grow (IP protection and counterfeit prevention).

This engagement he sees as a prerequisite to ensure sustainable, safe and efficient portable power for the time to come. In a world challenged by the effect and increasing scarcity of fossil energy sources, he believes the future of sustainable power consumption will be largely build on secure, break-through batteries and power storage.

Frank is a German & Swiss national, married with two kids and lives in Geneva, Switzerland.

Lawyer specialising in intellectual property. Former employee of the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. Experienced in designing copyright and cultural financial incentives legislation. For the last three years responsible for development and implementation of multiple projects related to national policies towards cultural and creative industries (film, video games, new media, book, music and design), digitisation of cultural heritage and dissemination of digital collections as well as functioning of public cultural institutions in the field of film heritage and production and book publishing. Specialist in issues related to libraries, archives, audiovisual policy and public financial programs supporting cultural issues and activities.

Laura runs the Secretariat of the Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacy in the EU and also the European Alliance for Access to Safe Medicines in Brussels - two highly active patient safety organisations. Both focus on making the Internet a safer place to buy medicines and removing falsified medicines from all supply chains. The EAASM champions patient safety initiatives relating to compounding practices, unlicensed/off-label usage of medicines and the field of nanomedicines to help ensure patient safety and wellbeing across Europe.

In addition to this role, Laura is a young, Italian public affairs executive working at Instinctif Partners, an international business communications consultancy, for which she has been working since 2016, on policy issues related to Health and Safety.

Laura gained a solid understanding of European institutions and decision-making process as well as a solid expertise on the policy scene in the healthcare sector, addressing the most common public health concerns related to patient safety, antimicrobial resistance, health systems performance and efficiency, eHealth, chronic diseases and integrated care. She has also acquired valuable experience within a European NGO active in the fields of employment, inclusion and social affairs.

Laura holds a MA Degree in International Relations from the University of Kent (Brussels campus) and previously obtained a BCL Degree in Political Sciences from Trieste University, as well as a Piano Degree.

Yann Romé spent five years working as a trademark and new technologies legal counsel for two French IP firms.

In 2005 he joined Chanel's trademark department in Paris, where he oversaw trademark and anti-counterfeiting matters (offline and online) for the EMEA.

In his role at Chanel, Mr Romé participated in the expansion of the company's anti-counterfeiting strategy by encouraging collaboration with various law enforcement authorities, effectively improving customs seizures and legal enforcement actions as well as handling worldwide trademark clearance searches, oppositions and enforcement for several of its departments (eg, fashion and cosmetics).

Mr Romé also managed Chanel’s online strategy and engaged with online platforms ensuring they adopt more preventive and proactive measures in relations to the selling of counterfeit goods. He advocated for effective collaboration protocols based not only on notices and takedowns, but also on exchange of information.

In 2015 Mr Romé relocated to Chanel's headquarters in Hong Kong. As part of the company’s Asia-Pacific team where he was responsible for reviewing and developing Chanel’s online brand protection strategy – specifically, by adapting it to China’s extremely dynamic and ever evolving online ecosystem (eg, specific social media, multiple and aggressive e-commerce platforms, challenging investigations and enforcement processes).

After two years in China he joined Chanel’s global anti-counterfeit department in Luxemburg and Nike in 2017. As the Global Brand Protection Digital Director he continues actively advocating for broader collaboration with pure players and law enforcement authorities, and for clearer and efficient proactive and preventive measures to be implemented by pureplayers.

He is the Honorary President of ECLA (www.ecla.eu). ECLA is the umbrella association gathering 20 European company lawyers associations, amounting to 67,000 company lawyers altogether. Among other initiatives, he prompted ECLANEWS, ECLACHANNEL, the ECLA Code of Ethics for Company Lawyers and the White Paper “Independent by design” and an online database on Legal Privilege across Europe. Philippe founded the Ethical Committee of the Company Lawyers profession in France and is a Board Member of In-House Counsel Worldwide.

Philippe is Asst. Regional Counsel with The Walt Disney Company, based in France. He started his career in private practice in NYC with an International British law firm where he qualified. He then lead the competition law practice of a French law firm. He obtained his double JD at the Paris Sorbonne and a post-grad degree (LL.M.) from the Harvard Law School (with a scholarship of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs).

He has lectured various law topics including anti-trust and IP at the University of Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne), Paris X and currently teaches anti-trust law at the international post grad Business school named ESSEC and media law at Paris 2 Assas. He pens from time to time published essays and legal chronicles in various periodicals. He founded an anti-cyber-bullying NGO: www.respectzone.org developing CSR and soft law tools leveraging the use of IP laws.

Kester Meijer works at KLM Cargo as Director Operational Integrity, Compliance & Safety. Kester is member of the KLM Cargo management team and is charge of the Next Level Compliance Program.

Key areas are Competitive Compliance, Safety, Customs, Security, Environment, Anti Counterfeit, Wildlife protection, Emergency Response, Contingency Management, Cargo Knowledge Center, Skyteam Cargo partnership, Industry representation, Blockchain innovations.

Kester enjoys working on co-creation between industry and regulators to create safe, secure and effective air cargo supply chains. He has extensive knowledge and experience in both Air Cargo Supply Chain Logistics, Compliance and ICT. Putting this unique combination to work on connecting with stakeholders and shaping innovative blockchain concepts, where new standards are shaped and tested. He strongly believes our industry is in the era of a paradigm shift, where data will become equally important as the shipment. The future of Smart Borders and Air Cargo is to pre-check everything upstream and ensure a smooth shipment journey!

Måns Sjöstrand is Head of IP & Brand Protection at the, in recent years very successful, Swedish watch company Daniel Wellington. Daniel Wellington started its sales and marketing efforts online and has devised its anti-counterfeit work accordingly, making the online environment as the key arena for its enforcement and investigation activities.

Måns has previous experience working as IP litigator and lawyer in Stockholm, Sweden, representing several major international brands. In his current role at Daniel Wellington, he manages and supervise the company’s global IP & Brand Protection program. Måns is also part of the board of the Swedish Anti-Counterfeit Group (SACG).

Mr. Daoming Zhang is Assistant Director for Illicit Markets in the INTERPOL Organized and Emerging Crime Directorate, leading INTERPOL’s Illicit Goods and Global Health Program and Environmental Security Program. As a high-ranking Chinese police officer with more than 25 years of law enforcement experience, Mr. Zhang has been working with INTERPOL for more than 10 years on different positions, previously as Drugs Coordinator, Assistant Director for Asia and South Pacific, and Regional Specialized Officer. Mr. Zhang holds a master degree in law and is visiting professor in the Chinese People’s Public Security University.

Jan de Visser is Senior Director in Philips Intellectual Property & Standards, responsible for Philips’ overall Brand Protection management, with specific focus on the PHILIPS wordmark and the Philips shield emblem. He started his career in the Philips IP department in 1985 as trade mark counsel, and gained extensive experience working with larger trade mark portfolios on an international level, e.g. in due diligence situations for divestments or acquisitions. From 1998 till 2006, Jan was head of the Philips IP department in Singapore, in a regional function aiming to curb counterfeit activities in Asia and to provide IP support to the Philips businesses in APAC. From 2006 till early 2008, Jan worked as patent portfolio manager for Domestic Appliances in Philips. As of 2008, Jan was IP counseling manager for Philips Consumer Lifestyle (comprising mainly consumer electronics and domestic appliances), responsible for IP business implementation and IP assertions – in 2014 his scope also included IP support for corporate R&D. As from January 2015, Jan manages the Brand Protection function in Philips worldwide. Jan has degrees in economics and law. He is married and has two children.

Jacky Marteau holds degrees in Political Sciences, Economics and Public Management. Before joining the European Commission, he worked for the French Customs. As European civil servant, he joined the Commission's Directorate General in charge of Taxation and Customs (DG TAXUD) in 1985 where later became Head of the Unit in charge of the Common Customs Tariff. He has occupied several managerial positions in different Commission's Departments (Regional Policy, Human Resources, OLAF). Since 1st February 2019, he is leading the Unit in charge of the fight against illicit tobacco trade and counterfeit goods in the European Anti-Fraud Office.

Lara Miller is Counsel & Vice President of Corporate Strategy at the International Anti Counterfeiting Coalition (IACC). She is responsible for identifying, developing ,and overseeing the IACC’s strategic initiatives including its online anti-counterfeiting programs, such as IACC RogueBlock, IACC MarketSafe, and the IACC-Amazon Program, as well as other partnerships with leaders of industry, international law enforcement, and technology. She also creates and oversees the legal framework for the IACC’s programs and initiatives, and serves as in-house counsel for organization’s overall operations.

Lara frequently represents the IACC at international industry events, seminars, and trainings, speaking on topics such as online threat mitigation, including the IACC’s follow-the-money approach, and anti-counterfeiting trends and challenges.

She has professional experience ranging from communications and corporate sponsorship, to intellectual property law and corporate law, at organizations in the sports entertainment, architecture, and luxury apparel industries. Lara has a Bachelor of Arts from McGill University, a Post-Graduate degree in Corporate Communications from Seneca College, and a Juris Doctor from Fordham University School of Law. She is admitted to practice in the State of New York.

Agata Gerba is a Deputy Head of Intellectual Property and Public Procurement Unit at DG TRADE of the European Commission. The Unit is responsible for the Intellectual Property and Public Procurement aspects of the EU trade policy, including the negotiations of IP and PP chapters in Free Trade Agreements, representing the EU in Dialogues and Working Groups with trade partners, as well as running technical cooperation programmes on Intellectual Property.

Before DG TRADE Agata has been working for the Copyright Unit of the European Commission where she has been involved, among other issues, in the work on the new copyright package. Agata held also other positions at the European Commission and prior to joining the Commission has been a senior associate at the international law firm Lovells.

Chris joined the Belgian police in 1982. He was a professor in the Royal School of the Gendarmerie till 1990. He worked in an IT project and was also involved in several other projects when the police landscape in Belgium was reshaped in 2001.

In 2002 he created the national IP Crime Unit in the Federal Police. First as a one man company and after wards he could expand the unit to a unit, staffed with 5 persons. In the meanwhile Chris was included in several EU Taiex training programs on IP Crime and EU IP Twinning projects in Poland, Romania, Turkey, Croatia, Algeria, Moldova …

He applied for the post of Project Manager of Europol’s IP Crime Unit and started at Europol end of 2010. In 2014 Chris was appointed Cluster Manager Counterfeiting, managing both AP COPY (IP Crime Unit) and AP SOYA, Europol’s Euro Counterfeiting Unit. In 2015 Chris’s IP Crime team was awarded the ACG award in Paris. In July 2016, Mr Rob Wainwright, Director of Europol inaugurated the IPC³ (Intellectual Property Crime Coordinated Coalition), Europol’s new IP Crime Unit in the presence of Mr Campinos, executive Director of EU IPO and Mr Danny Marti, the US IPR Coordinator of the White House.

Chris is actually Head of IPC³ and the team has been expanded to 18 colleagues from various EU MS’s. His Unit is coordinating high level IP Operations like Operation OPSON (fake food and beverages), Operation Silver Axe (on fake and illicit pesticides) and Operation IOS (on internet related IP Crime). Chris is married and has two sons.

Michael Gates is currently the Global Head of PayPal’s Brand Risk Management program. Brand Risk Management (BRM) at PayPal oversee the enforcement of most of PayPal’s Acceptable Use Policy. As program manager he has oversight over the Policy team which drafts the guidelines and policies which PayPal leverage to implement Acceptable Use Policy Enforcement. Prior to this, Michael oversaw PayPal’s Sanctions Advisory team whereupon he helped develop and draft the policy framework for PayPal’s Sanctions Compliance program. Prior to entering the financial services industry Michael was a prosecutor with the New York County District Attorney’s Office for over 8 years where he spent the majority of his time investigating Organized Crime, White Collar Crime and Public Corruption.

Michael Gates is currently the Global Head of PayPal’s Brand Risk Management program. Brand Risk Management (BRM) at PayPal oversee the enforcement of most of PayPal’s Acceptable Use Policy. As program manager he has oversight over the Policy team which drafts the guidelines and policies which PayPal leverage to implement Acceptable Use Policy Enforcement. Prior to this, Michael oversaw PayPal’s Sanctions Advisory team whereupon he helped develop and draft the policy framework for PayPal’s Sanctions Compliance program. Prior to entering the financial services industry Michael was a prosecutor with the New York County District Attorney’s Office for over 8 years where he spent the majority of his time investigating Organized Crime, White Collar Crime and Public Corruption.

Mr Jari Liukku joined Europol in 2017, as head of the European Serious Organised Crime Centre (ESOCC) Department, which aims at providing the most effective operational support to the EU Member States' investigations in cases related to serious and organised crime. This encompasses criminal intelligence analysis, specific expertise, deployments in the field, real time information exchange and other capabilities to support the investigative activities against individuals and organized crime networks that represent the highest crime threats across the EU.

Before joining Europol, Mr Liukku worked as a Police Chief in Finland. He has a Master of Law degree from the Helsinki University and he has graduated from the Finnish Police School and Academy. He has over 35 years of experience working for various Finnish law enforcement, judicial and administrative authorities.

Mike is the Executive Director of the Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacy in the EU (ASOP EU). With over 30,000 fake pharmacy websites targeting Europe on any given day, this multisectoral organisation’s mission is to enable patients to buy their medicines online safely – where it is legal to do so. Its aim is to produce concrete voluntary actions that will make a real difference and ultimately benefit the health of patients.

Mike is also the Executive Director of the European Alliance for Access to Safe Medicines (EAASM). The EAASM is a pan-European non profit patient safety organisation, bringing together all concerned with eliminating falsified medicines from the supply chain.

With patient safety at its heart, the EAASM is also currently campaigning for safer use of medical practices.

Mike is also European Medicines Partnership Director for International Health Partners a UK charity whose Queen’s Award for Enterprise for continuous Innovation, recognised the tremendous humanitarian work sourcing donated quality medicines from the healthcare industry and coordinating delivery via secure supply chain solutions to disaster-struck areas in close liaison with NGOs.

Valérie Ledure is Head of Unit entitled “Protection of citizens and enforcement of IPR” in the Directorate-General “Taxation and Customs Union of the European Commission” (TAXUD) since July 2018.

She deals with policy for specific customs controls covering a wide range of EU common policies, such as protection of health & safety, intellectual property rights, cultural heritage, the environment, anti-money laundering.

Previously Ms Ledure worked in Directorate-General, “Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union” (FISMA), working on EU policy for financial services and capital markets.

Prior to joining the Commission in 2007, Ms Ledure worked at ING and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

By profession, Ms Ledure is a Chartered Certified Accountant and she holds a Masters in Business Engineering from the Solvay Business School, University of Brussels.

Since December 2016, Philippe is the CEO of LE FREEPORT Luxembourg, a state of the art, high-end, secure facility for valuables.

Philippe is director of his own consultancy firm. International Strategic Advisory sarl is offering strategy consultancy and crisis management advice.

From January 2013 until March 2016, Philippe was CEO of Concept Com SA, a company that exports unique and modern capabilities from European technology companies to global customers.

Prior to moving to Luxembourg, Philippe was Deputy Manager of the D3 Head Office of the French Customs and from July 2003 until March 2006, Philippe was the Main inspector of Customs and Head of the Division of Seine et Marne for the operations specializing in financial criminality.

Philippe also was Customs Inspector, Officer to the regional group of intervention 77 (GIR 77), Interregional Management of Criminal Investigation Department of Versailles and Customs Inspector, Head of Subdivision of Paris Est in charge of the command of the units of intervention of the customs of 77, 93 and 94.

Philippe has a Master 2 in Law and Security Strategies from Université Paris 2 Panthéon and was named auditor by the French Prime Minister after attending the Institut des Hautes Etudes de Défense Nationale. Furthermore, he has a diploma from the Ecole nationale des brigades des douanes de La Rochelle, Ecole Nationale des Douanes de Neuilly and a diploma in law from the Université Paris XI.

David Lossignol is currently Head of Trademarks, Domain Names and Copyrights at Novartis Pharma AG in Basel, Switzerland, leading a team of experienced trademark professionals handling all trademark, domain name and copyright matters for Novartis Pharma worldwide. He joined Novartis Pharma AG in Basel in January 2019 and was previously Global Head of Trademarks at Sandoz International GmbH in Holzkirchen, Germany from November 2015 until December 2018. Mr. Lossignol was previously Senior Trademark Attorney at Novartis Pharma AG in Basel, Switzerland, where he was responsible for worldwide trademark, design and domain name portfolios, and various related pan-European litigation matters.

Before joining Novartis Pharma AG in January 2010 as Trademark Attorney, Mr. Lossignol was, since 2006, Head of Trademarks and Domain Names at Virbac S.A., a company in the animal health sector located in Carros, close to Nice, France. There, he was in charge of the worldwide trademark, design and domain name strategy for the Group. Mr. Lossignol started at Virbac as an intern in 1999 before joining as Trademark and Domain Name Counsel in 2001. He also acted as Legal Counsel for the company in 2002, mainly in charge of drafting and negotiating agreements.

Mr. Lossignol obtained law degrees at Nice Sophia-Antipolis University in France, where he has also lectured on IP law, and diplomas from Oxford Brookes University in the UK and from the CEIPI in Strasbourg, France.

In his role as INTA President, Mr. Lossignol is Chair of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee. He is also a member of the Association’s Brands and Innovation Committee.

Vishal Amin serves as the U.S. Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator (IPEC) in the Executive Office of the President. At the White House, Coordinator Amin heads the office leading the U.S. government’s overall coordination and development of intellectual property policy and strategy, domestically and abroad. He was nominated by President Trump in April 2017 and confirmed unanimously by the U.S. Senate on August 3, 2017. Prior to becoming the IPEC, Coordinator Amin served as Senior Counsel on the House Judiciary Committee, where he was lead counsel for the Defend Trade Secrets Act (2016) and the America Invents Act (2011) that were signed into law. Earlier in his career, he served in the Administration of President George W. Bush at the White House, as Associate Director for Domestic Policy, and at the U.S. Department of Commerce, as Special Assistant and Associate Director for Policy in the Office of the Secretary. He received his bachelor's degree in neuroscience from Johns Hopkins University and his law degree from Washington University in St. Louis.

Annabelle DanielVarda is a Legal Director and heads the Trademark team at Google LLC. She joined Google in 2007 and prior to that she was counsel at Apple Inc., where she worked on iTunes. She was in private practice in the Trademark & Advertising Practices group and the Intellectual Property Litigation group at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. She started her legal career clerking for the Honorable James W. Ware, United States District Court for the Northern District of California.

Alvaro Ortega is the Head of FIU – Law Enforcement Outreach and Investigations team with responsibility for Northern and Southern Europe, Spain, Italy, UK, Ireland & Nordic countries and Portugal. He joined Western Union in May 2015 after 15 years in the Spanish National Police, where he was Operational Head of investigations into Organized and Serious crime with a particular focus on Money Laundering, Economic and Financial crimes, representing Spanish National Police at International level.

At WU, Alvaro has led initiatives to prevent, detect and deter the use of Western Union services for illicit purposes, with a particular focus on Human Trafficking, Terrorist Finance and Child Sex Exploitation. He earned three Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, in Business Management and in Police Science and is an Assistant Professor at the University Autónoma in Madrid for both of the Master’s Degree in Forensic Sciences for Criminal Analysis and Investigation and the Master’s Degree in Economic Intelligence. Alvaro is member in EUROPOL of the Advisory Group (AG) on Financial Services, the Europol Financial Intelligence Public Private Partnership (EFIPPP) and the Steering Committee in the European Financial Cybercrime Coalition (EUFCC).

Alvaro has worked with the European Commission (EC) in the new European law to fight Terrorism and Organize Crime, as well as with institutions such as CEPOL and EUROMED in the training of police, judges and prosecutors on issues related to the financing of terrorism and trafficking in human beings.

She graduated from the Ecole Centrale as a business engineer specialised in mathematics and decision-making, where she carried out her studies in the computer unit and her thesis in the Humanities and Social Sciences Unit. She firstly works as a consultant in the consulting agency Image 7, especially on issues related to its deployment on the Internet.

She joined the teams of the Presidency of the Republic in 2008, where she mainly works on Internet tasks and occasionally in the financial department. In 2012, she became coordinator of the Research, Studies and Watch Department, which she conducted the observation protocol, which included research work in computing science and applied mathematics, qualitative and quantitative studies, watch and documentation work.

In December 2013, she is in charge of administrative and financial affairs and became Deputy Secretary General of the High Authority in January 2014.

Pauline Blassel becomes interim General Secretary from September 2015 and Deputy Secretary General in February 1st, 2017.

She was appointed Secretary General of the Hadopi in July 17th, 2018.

She specializes in intellectual property rights and role and obligations of intermediary service providers. She is responsible for trademarks portfolio management, IP rights infringements and its enforcement, as well as in direct cooperation with Rights Owners within Allegro’s Right Protection Cooperation Program. She completed postgraduate studies in intellectual property law at Warsaw University (Faculty of Law and Administration) and also was awarded a Diploma in English and European Law from the British Law Centre. She is a member of the EUIPO Observatory expert group on cooperation with intermediaries.

Allegro is a true European born tech leader and the biggest Polish marketplace with 21M registered accounts, over 100M offers available monthly and ecosystem of over 125K professional sellers.

Director Hinojosa assumned her elected post in the Compliance and Facilitation Directorate of the World Customs Organization (WCO), effective January 1, 2016. She leads the directorate that is responsible assisting Members in implementing effective and efficient controls, ensuring fair and accurate revenue collection, and protecting society by intercepting and suppressing illicit and criminal activities. The directorate has the twin goal of securing and facilitating legitimate global supply chains through the simplification and harmonizarion of Customs prodedures. In order to accomplish this, the Directorate, working with WCO Members, develops international standards covering all aspects of trade processes.

Prior to her election and transition to her current post, she served nealy 29 years with the United States Custom Service/Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

She is fluent in English and Spanish, and is currently studying French.

Gavin is a Chartered Trading Standards Practitioner. Trading Standards Officers fulfil a market inspection and consumer protection function within the UK. He holds the Diploma in Trading Standards (DTS), a Postgraduate Diploma in Intellectual Property Law (Dip LIP) and an Interpol IP Crime Investigators Certificate.

He has over 25 years experience as a trading standards investigator working for West Yorkshire, Oxfordshire and Wiltshire councils and the Trading Standards North West Regional Investigations Team. During this time Gavin has specialised in IP Rights Enforcement, anti-counterfeiting and consumer fraud investigations.

From 2005–2009 Gavin was seconded to the UK Intellectual Property Office as a special policy advisor on IP Rights enforcement and contributed to the original development of the UK government’s IP Crime Group and the National IP Crime Strategy. Gavin continues to sit on the UK IP Crime Group, representing CTSI.

Gavin was involved in the original development of the trading standards DCA IP Examination and supporting training courses and in the transition to the current DCATS IP Module format. Gavin is currently the CTSI DCATS Examiner for IP and a CTSI Accredited Trainer.

Internationally Gavin has participated in European IPR twinning and mutual assistance programs with Romania, Slovenia, Albania, Moldova, Serbia, Kosovo, Macedonia and Turkey and in WIPO assistance programs with Pakistan and in Malaysia.

In 2002 Gavin received the ACG (Anti-Counterfeiting Group) Award for Individual Excellence in IP Rights Enforcement and in 2009 he received an ACG Lifetime Achievement Award for his work in IP Rights Enforcement.

Mr. Barry Elliott is a retired Ontario Provincial Police Officer and a senior criminal analyst with the RCMP at the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre (CAFC). Barry was instrumental in developing and implementing a new anti-counterfeiting strategy to combat organized crime. Project Chargeback began back in 2011 with a goal to identify and disrupt suspect merchant accounts used to facilitate online intellectual property crimes. Initially, the CAFC implemented a Merchant Account Disruption program which began as an informal partnership with Visa and MasterCard to share descriptor information from fraud complaints that involved credit cards as the payment method.

The success of this disruption program led the CAFC to expand the Merchant Account Disruption Program in Jan 2013 to include complaints received by Canadian Bank customers on the deceptive marketing of counterfeit goods online. Mr. Elliott was instrumental in developing and maintaining a long working relationship with Visa, MasterCard and the Canadian banks. He created new partnerships with the Canadian and International Brands experiencing losses due to the underground economy of counterfeit products.

To date, Project Chargeback has registered over 42,000 confirmations where a chargeback occurred and a victim was reimbursed. It has identified over 12,000 merchant accounts in Asia linked to counterfeiting, fraud and intellectual property theft. The victims have recovered approximately $15 million CDN ($11 million USD), while the Banks and payment processors linked to organized crime have incurred over $30 million USD in fines. Mr. Elliott’s efforts have had a significant impact in curtailing the use of Visa and MasterCard as a method of payment and a decrease in overall profits by counterfeit organized crime. The CAFC continues to share intelligence with Visa and MasterCard regarding NEW merchant account movement to Banks anywhere in the world by organized crime, including in the Asia-Pacific region.

Matthew Bassiur serves as Vice President, Head of Global Intellectual Property Enforcement for Alibaba Group. He leads a team that works with international brands, retail partners, industry associations, government regulators, law enforcement and other organizations to advance Alibaba Group’s IP protection efforts.

Matthew joined Alibaba from Pfizer Inc., where he served as Vice President and Deputy Chief Security Officer – overseeing anti-counterfeiting operations as well as large-scale investigations. Prior to Pfizer, Matthew was Senior Director for Global Security and Counsel for IPR Enforcement at Apple Inc.

Prior to Apple, Matthew was a federal prosecutor in the Computer Crime & Intellectual Property Section of the U.S. Department of Justice, where he prosecuted multi-jurisdictional IP crimes. From 1998 to 2006, Matthew served as an assistant district attorney in the Manhattan DA’s Office where he specialized in the prosecution of IP offenses and Asian organized crime. Matthew earned his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1998.

Ms. Martin-Prat is Director in the European Commission Directorate General for Trade - the Commission Directorate General which manages the EU trade and investment relations with non-EU countries - where she is responsible for the areas of Services and Digital Trade, Investment, Intellectual Property and Public Procurement. In her capacity, she is also the Commission's Chief Negotiator for the ongoing negotiations with China on a bilateral investment agreement.

Before her current post Ms. Martin-Prat was the Head of the Copyright Unit in the European Commission Communications, Networks, Content and Technology Directorate General and, before that, in the European Commission Internal Market Directorate General. Prior responsibilities include being the Head of Unit responsible for free movement of services and freedom of establishment in the European Commission Internal Market Directorate General and being a member of Commissioner Joaquin Almunia's Cabinet.

Ms Martin-Prat has also worked as a lawyer in the private sector (Deputy General Counsel and Director of Legal Policy at the International Federation of the Recording Industry in London) and in the European Parliament. Ms. Martin-Prat is admitted as a solicitor in Spain and has two postgraduate degrees in European Law (from the European Institute of the University of Amsterdam and from the Institute of European Studies of the Free University of Brussels).

Assistant Director General (ADG), Minelik Alemu Getahun (Ethiopia) oversees the Sector for Global Issues. The Sector brings together a number of programs that address cross-cutting issues, including traditional knowledge, traditional cultural expressions, and genetic resources; building respect for Intellectual Property (IP); IP and global challenges as well as external relations.

Before joining WIPO, Mr. Getahun served as the Permanent Representative of Ethiopia to the UN Offices at Geneva and in Vienna, other international organizations in Switzerland and in Vienna. He was Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ethiopia to Switzerland and (non-resident) to Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania. He was the legal advisor of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia and held different diplomatic positions. He served as a member of the African Union Commission on International Law.

He holds a Master’s degree in Public International Law from University College London and a Bachelor’s degree in Law from Addis Ababa University.

Mr Mombers graduated from the Law School at KU Leuven (BE). He is a qualified Benelux and European trade marks and designs attorney and a member of the Benelux Association for Trade Mark- and Design Law (BMM). Mr Mombers is a Sr. IP Counsel at Signify (formerly Philips Lighting) where he applies his all-round expertise in the fields of trade marks, designs, domain names, copyright and related matters in a wide variety of day-to-day matters and strategic projects.

In 2010 Mr Mombers was one of the members that helped creating the EDB. He continues to be an active member of the EDB Working Group since. In 2015 he became the Chairman of the Anti-Counterfeiting Committee of AIM – the European Brands Association.

He is a welcomed speaker at many conferences and has lectured at the Centre for Intellectual Property Rights of the KU Leuven.

Pascal Faure was born on 1 February 1963 in Nice. He is ingénieur général des Mines, and is a graduate of the École Polytechnique (class of 1983) and the École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Paris (class of 1988).

Pascal Faure began his career in the United States, working in the R&D divisions of both Bell Laboratories and Apple Computer. Upon his return to France, he joined the National Centre for Telecommunications Research (France Télécom/CNET), where he worked as a project manager in the area of secure communications and cryptography. From 1992 to 1995, he worked at the Ministry for the Budget on appropriations for government IT policy. He was then appointed technical adviser to the office of the Minister for Tourism, with responsibility for budgetary and tax issues, employment and regional development, before becoming a technical adviser at the office of the Minister for Regional Development, Urban Affairs and Integration. From 1997 to 2001, Pascal Faure served as director of development, director of financial affairs and deputy general administrator of the Institut Télécom. He was then appointed deputy technical director at the Ministry of Defence. Concurrently, he served as chairman of the Association of Telecommunications Engineers between 2001 and 2006. Between 2007 and 2012, Pascal Faure served successively as vice-chairman of the General Council for Information Technologies (CGTI) and vice-chairman of General Council for the Economy, Industry, Energy and Technologies (CGEIET). On 5 December 2012, Pascal Faure was appointed head of the Directorate General for Competitiveness, Industry and Services (DGCIS).

On 17 September 2014, as the Directorate General for Competitiveness, Industry and Services was renamed the Directorate general for Enterprise (DGE), he became Head of the Directorate general for Enterprise (DGE).

Professional life

Head of the Planning, Budget and RCB Department at C.N.R.S. – French National Research and Science Institute (1973-1978), then General Secretary of INPI – French intellectual property institute (1978-1983).

After two years at Banque Worms as Adviser to the President, and one year as Administrative and Financial Head of QUESTEL-TELESYSTEMES, back to the intellectual property world: Director of General Administration at the World Intellectual Property Organization (Geneva, 1986-1989) then Director of International cooperation at the European Patent Office (Munich, 1989-2004)

Political life

Member of “La République En Marche” (Emmanuel Macron’s organization), since October 2016.

Member of the Unified Socialist Party in 1968 and of the Socialist Party since 1974.

Chairman of the Socialist Party Federation of the French Abroad from 1994 to 2003

Jacki Davis is a leading commentator and analyst on European Union affairs. She is a very experienced journalist, speaker and moderator of high-level events both in Brussels and in EU national capitals, the editor of many publications, a regular broadcaster on television and radio news programmes and documentaries commenting on EU issues, and both a Senior Adviser and member of the Governing Board at the Brussels-based think tank, the European Policy Centre. She has been based in Brussels for more than 25 years, and was previously Communications Director of the European Policy Centre; launch editor and editor-in-chief of E!Sharp, a monthly magazine on EU affairs launched in 2001; the launch editor of European Voice, a Brussels-based weekly newspaper on EU affairs owned by The Economist Group, from 1995-2000 (which has now become Politico); and the Brussels correspondent of a British national newspaper.

Marco Pancini was born in Rome in May 1972. After his studies in Law, Marco started his professional career as part of the start-up project of iBazar, the first online auction web site in Europe, and then he joined eBay, when iBazar was acquired. From 2002 to 2007 Marco was Head of legal and Trust and Safety at eBay.it, the Italian subsidiary of the world’s biggest online marketplace. In July 2007 he joined the Google team as European policy counsel in charge of government relationship for the Italian market, representing Google in important international meetings as the Internet Governance Forum of the United Nations. From February 2011 to September 2018 Marco was a member of the Google policy team in Brussels, where he was leading the team dealing with the EU Commission and Council. In September 2018, Marco joined the YouTube team as Director Public Policy for EMEA.

Blanca Arteche joined the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) in February 1998 to work in the Vice-President for Legal Affairs’ Coordination Service. From 2002 to 2006 she was responsible for financial control and budget planning within the General Affairs and External Relations Department of the Office.

In June 2006 she was nominated Head of Service in the Trade Marks and Cancellation Department (later Operations Department).

In February 2015, she joined the Observatory Department as project manager for the Enforcement Tools and since December 2018 she is managing the Enforcement and SME Service.

Alexandra Poch is qualified as a German lawyer and also holds an LL.M. from the University of London (King’s College). After working in private practice for several years in London and Brussels, she joined EUIPO in 1999. From 2005 onwards, Alexandra spent a number of years at the European Commission, where she was deeply involved in the legislative process related to IP rights. After holding a position in the private sector, as Head of Legal of an SME, Alexandra returned to EUIPO, where she joined the European Observatory on Infringements of Intellectual Property Rights in 2014, first as Head of IP in the Digital World and, more recently, as Deputy Director. Alexandra has a high interest in the potential impact of new technologies on the enforcement of IPR.

Director of the European Observatory on Infringements of Intellectual Property, EUIPO, Spain Paul Maier joined the EUIPO, in May 1995 as chief advisor to the President of the Office.

From 2000 until 2005 he was responsible for the preparations of EUIPO in view of the enlargement of the EU and the coming into force of the Regulation on Community Designs.

He was nominated President of the Boards of Appeal by the Council of Ministers in December 2005 and confirmed for a second mandate in May 2010.

Since January 2013, Paul Maier has been appointed as the Director of the EUIPO Observatory. The department incorporates not only the EU Observatory on IPR Infringements, but also the service of the Chief Economist who is in charge of economic studies.

Piotr Stryszowski is senior economist at the Public Governance Directorate of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). He joined the OECD in 2006. and during his tenure he has been involved in numerous projects in the area of innovation, intellectual property rights and the information economy. This includes research on the economic impact of counterfeiting and piracy, piracy of digital content, copyright in the age of the internet, innovation in the software industry, and knowledge markets and networks. It also includes presenting results to a wide range of audiences including senior policymakers, business representatives and academics. Since 2015, Mr. Stryszowski has been developing and managing OECD research on the economic impact of trade in IP infringing goods.

Mr. Stryszowski graduated with a Ph.D. in economics from Tilburg University (the Netherlands). His academic research concerns the economic aspects of innovation, growth theory, intangible assets and labour economics.

Mr. Marcos Bonturi is the OECD Director for Public Governance. He leads a team of over 200 staff at the Public Governance Directorate (GOV). GOV helps governments design and implement strategic, evidence-based and innovative policies to strengthen public governance, respond effectively to economic, social and environmental challenges and deliver on government’s commitments to citizens. It covers topics such as innovation, digital government, transparency, integrity, public procurement, public budgeting, gender-responsive policies, risk management and regulatory reform. Under Mr. Bonturi’s leadership, the Directorate works with a wide range of non-member countries and is engaged with social partners, multilateral institutions, NGOs and other relevant stakeholders to build empirical evidence and identify good policy practices.

Mr. Bonturi, who has both Italian and Brazilian citizenship, joined the OECD in 1990. Throughout his OECD career, Mr. Bonturi has held various senior positions, including Director for Global Relations and Deputy Chief of Staff in the Secretary-General’s Cabinet, and has worked in several OECD Directorates, including the Development Centre; the Trade Directorate; the Economics Department; and the Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry. Most recently, he was Special Representative of the OECD to the United Nations in New York, where he promoted closer ties between the OECD and different parts of the UN family.

Prior to joining the OECD, Mr. Bonturi was at the Inter-American Development Bank for three years (1987-1990), as an economist at the Social and Economic Development Department, where he worked on Latin American trade and development policies.

Mr. Bonturi studied Engineering at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, holds a Master’s degree in Economics and has also undertaken Doctoral studies in Trade Policy and Development Economics at the University of Maryland.

Mr. Radisch is Senior Project Manager of the OECD High-Level Risk Forum. He is responsible for co-ordination and implementation of its research agenda, which provides analysis of public policies and institutional arrangements designed to manage complex risks. Prior to joining the OECD Public Governance Directorate, he carried out comparative analysis at the OECD related to the digital economy and bio-security. He has published articles and OECD peer reviews on risk management policies, was co-author of the G20/OECD framework on Disaster Risk Assessment and Risk Financing, and was the main author of the OECD publication ‘Future Global Shocks’. Mr. Radisch is a licensed attorney in the United States and continues to provide pro bono legal advice to indigent clients.

Harrie Temmink is currently Deputy Head of the Industrial Property and Fight Against Counterfeiting Unit Public at DG Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (GROW), European Commission.

Harrie has a Dutch Law Degree and a Spanish Language and Literature Degree from the University of Utrecht (The Netherlands). He worked previously as a lecturer in Public Economic Law (1990-2000), at the Netherlands Competition Authority (1998-2000), as a Legal Secretary to the Court of Justice of the European Communities (2000-2003), at the Industrial Property Unit of DG Internal Market and Services (2003-2008), as a Member of Cabinet of Mrs Meglena Kuneva, European Commissioner for Consumer Affairs (2008-2010), and as Deputy Head of the Online and Postal Services Unit (2011-2014) and the Public Interest Services Unit (2014-2017).

Angel Gurría was appointed as the Secretary-General of the OECD on 1 June 2006. He is currently serving his third five-year mandate. Angel Gurría has firmly established the Organisation as a pillar of the global economic governance architecture including the G20, G7 and APEC, and a reference point in the design and implementation of better policies for better lives.

Mrs Bieńkowska has been Commissioner for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs since 2014. Prior to this, she served as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Infrastructure and Development in Poland between 2013 and 2014, and was Minister of Regional Development between 2007 and 2013. Mrs Bieńkowska holds a Master's degree in oriental philology from Jagiellonian University and a Post-graduate diploma from the Polish National School of Public Administration.

Christian Archambeau is Executive Director of the EUIPO since October 1, 2018. He has been part of the Office’s top management team since 1 December 2010, when he was appointed as Deputy Executive Director by the Council of the European Union.

A native of Belgium, he graduated from Université libre de Bruxelles as a civil engineer and worked in construction in the Middle East before moving to the European Space Agency in facility management. Prior to joining the EUIPO (formerly known as OHIM), he held a number of senior positions in the European Patent Office in Infrastructure, Administration and Human Resources.