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Policy Advisory Commission
First Session, April 15, 1999
WIPO Headquarters, Geneva
LIST OF MEMBERS

AHTISAARI Martti, President, Finland *

AMIGO CASTAÑEDA Jorge, Director General, Mexican Industrial Property Institute, Mexico

ARAI Hisamitsu, Vice-Minister for International Affairs, Ministry of International Trade and Industry, Japan

BAHADIAN Adhemar Gabriel, Ambassador, Deputy Permanent Representative of Brazil, Geneva

BANGEMANN Martin, Member of the European Commission for Industrial Affairs and Information and Telecommunications Technologies, Germany

BATCHELOR Sheila (Ms.), Chief Executive Officer, Canadian Intellectual Property Office, Canada (Member ex-officio)

BERNARD Daniel, Ambassador of France, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

ESSY Amara, State Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Côte d'Ivoire *

GABAY Mayer, First Vice President, United Nations Administrative Tribunal, Chairman, Patent and Copyright Laws Revision Committees, Ministry of Justice, Israel

GHOSE Arundhati (Ms.), Member, Union Public Service Commission, former Ambassador and Permanent Representative of India, Geneva

GYGER Walter, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Switzerland, Geneva

His Royal Highness, Prince El-HASSAN Bin Talal, Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

HERMASSI Abdelbaki, Minister for Culture, Tunisia

HÖYNCK Wilhelm, former Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Germany in Geneva *

JENNINGS Sir Robert, former President, International Court of Justice, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

KADIRGAMAR Lakshman, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka

LEHMAN Bruce, President, International Intellectual Property Institute, former Assistant Secretary for Commerce and Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks, United States of America

MENEM Carlos, President, Republic of Argentina *

NYERERE Julius, former President, United Republic of Tanzania

OLSSON Henry, Special Government Advisor, Ministry of Justice, Sweden and former Director of Copyright Department, WIPO

PERSAD-BISSESSAR Kamla (Mrs.), Minister for Legal Affairs, Republic of Trinidad and Tobago

PORZIO Marino, attorney, Adviser to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Chile, and former Deputy Director General, WIPO

PRETNAR Bojan, Director, Slovenian Intellectual Property Office and Permanent Representative of Slovenia to WIPO

RAMOS Fidel, former President, Philippines

SIDOROV Vasily, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation, Geneva

SOARES Mario, former President, Portugal *

SONG Jian, Vice-Chairman of the People's Political Consultative Conference of China and former State Councilor in charge of science and technology development, People's Republic of China

WEEKES John, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Canada, Geneva


 

* Unable to participate in the April 15, 1999 meeting