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Andrew Staines
Assistant Director General
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
Andrew Staines is Assistant Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva, Switzerland, where he leads the Global Challenges, Opportunities and Partnerships Sector. He oversees WIPO’s work on emerging intellectual property issues and on the role of IP in addressing global challenges and opportunities, including at the intersection of health, sports, trade, finance and youth engagement. He also leads the Organization’s work on traditional knowledge, traditional cultural expressions and genetic resources, and on building strategic partnerships across the United Nations system, international organizations, business, academia and civil society.
Andrew previously served as WIPO’s Assistant Director General responsible for the corporate functions underpinning the Organization’s effective operations and delivery, its work on strategic foresight and futures, and as Secretary to the WIPO Assemblies. Before joining WIPO, he was the United Kingdom’s Ambassador for Economic Affairs to the World Trade Organization and the United Nations in Geneva. He has held senior roles in the UK Foreign Office, working on global economic issues including the UK’s G20 Presidency, in the private sector as a senior executive in one of the UK’s largest natural resource companies, and as an expert adviser in the UK Parliament.
He holds an Economics degree from Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge University, and is a Chartered Accountant and a CFA Charterholder.
