Francis Gurry: Curriculum Vitae

Francis Gurry was appointed Director General of WIPO in October, 2008.

Academic qualifications

Year	Qualifications
1974	Bachelor of Laws, University of Melbourne
1975	Qualified legal practioner, Australia
1976	Master of Laws, University of Melbourne
1980	Doctor of Philosophy, University of Cambridge

Year	Role
1974 - 1976	Practice as legal attorney in Melbourne and Sydney (1984)
1979 – 1984	Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Melbourne
1982 – 1983	Visiting Professor of Law, University of Dijon, France
1985 – 2008	Various positions in the Secretariat of WIPO, including Legal Counsel, Assistant Director General and Deputy Director General
2008 – 2020	Director General, WIPO
2008 – 2020	Secretary General, International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV)

Chair, High-Level Committee on Management (HLCM) of the United Nations System Chief Executives Board (CEB) (2012-present)
Member, Consultative Commission for International Geneva (Commission consultative sur les relations de la Genève internationale)

Breach of Confidence (1984), Oxford University Press, Clarendon, pp i-xxvii, 1 – 487 (now published as Gurry on Breach of Confidence. The Protection of Confidential Information, Second Edition by Tanya Aplin, Lionel Bently, Phillip Johnson, and Simon Malynicz, Oxford University Press, Clarendon, 2012)
With Frederick M. Abbott and Thomas Cottier, International Intellectual Property in an Integrated World Economy (2007), Aspen, New York, pp. 1-683 (Second Edition, 2011, Aspen Casebook Series, New York, pp. 1-824)
Various chapters in books and articles and interviews in journals and newspapers (list available)

Year	Honours and distinctions
1980	Yorke Prize, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge
2001	Honorary Professorial Fellow, University of Melbourne, Australia
2009	Honorary Professor, Peking University, China
2012	Honorary Professor, Eurasian National University, Kazakhstan
2009	Honorary Doctorate, University of National and World Economy, Bulgaria
2010	Honorary Doctorate, Haifa University, Israel
2010	Honorary Doctorate, National Technical University of Ukraine (Kyiv Polytechnic Institute)
2010	Honorary Doctorate, Renmin University, China
2011	Honorary Doctorate, University of Akron, USA
2012	Honorary Doctorate, Academy of Economic Studies of Moldova, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova
2012	Honorary Member of the University Council of the Arts (Claustro Universitario de las Artes), University of Alcalá, Spain
2008	Member, European Academy of Sciences and Arts
2012	Fellow, Australian Institute of International Affairs

Campaign Patron, Campaign for the University of Melbourne
Honorary Chair, Board of Management, Centre for China Innovation Index Research, Peking University
Advisory Board, Geneva LL.M. in International Dispute Settlement (MIDS), University of Geneva and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Honorary Advisory Board, Melbourne Journal of International Law
Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Intellectual Property Forum
Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia, Faculty of Law, University of Melbourne, Australia
Indian Journal of Intellectual Property
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