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