Committee Chairs

 The following provides a comprehensive list of the current 2023-2024 LESI Committee Chairs and Vice-Chairs.

Management Committee Chairs

Committees Chairs Vice Chairs Society
Audit Sonja London

Scandinavia

Awards François Painchaud


USA/Canada
Communications Jean-Christophe Troussel



Bruna Rego Lins
Shayne Phillips
David Swain

Benelux
Brazil
USA/Canada
China-HK
Education Martin Schneider
Natalie Raffoul
Danie Dohmen



Thomas Adocker
Sung-Pil Hwang
Bruna Rego Lins
Makoto Ogino
Divina Ilas-Panganiban
Vasco Stilwell d'Andrade

Switzerland
USA/Canada
South Africa
Austria
Korea
Brazil
Japan
Philippines
Spain/Portugal
External Relations Audrey Yap
Arnaud Michel
François Painchaud



Singapore
France
USA/Canada

Investment Sonja London


Scandinavia

IP Maintenance Christie Hudgins


USA/Canada

Legal

Emmanuel Gougé
Ningling Wang

 
France
China

Long Range Planning

Duncan Ferguson
Junko Sugimura
Madelein Kleyn
Tatiana Campello



Australia/New Zealand
Japan
South Africa
Brazil
Meetings Thomas Adocker
Laura MacDonald
Alexander Haertel



Bob Held
Georgina Busku
Francisco Velasco

Austria
Benelux
Germany
USA/Canada
Hungary
Spain/Portugal


Membership Hector Chagoya
Alexander Cizek
Yorikatsu Hohokabe





David Swain
Ann Cannoni

Mexico
Austria
Japan
China-HK
USA/Canada
Nominations John Paul

USA/Canada

Publications David Drews
 
LESI Editor

Industry Committee Chairs

Committees Chairs Vice Chairs Society
Consumer Products Industries

Matteo Sabattini
Gary Ma
 

Guido Quiram
USA/Canada
Chinese Taipei
Germany

Copyright Licensing
Johan Du Preez
George Hwang


 
South Africa
Singapore
Environment, Energy, Materials, and Chemicals
Dallas Wilkinson
Ia Modin
 

Vikran Duangmanee

Australia/New Zealand
Scandinavia
Thailand
High Technology Hemang Shah
Sanjay Prasad
Guido Quiram



Heinz Goddar
John Carney
Lakshika Joshi
Taruna Gupta
Darío Mohammadian
Gary Ma
India
USA/Canada
Germany
Germany
USA/Canada
India
India
Spain/Portugal
Chinese Taipei

Life Sciences Joanne van Harmelen
Marie Barani


Richa Pandey
Jayde Wood
South Africa 
Benelux
India   
USA/Canada    

Professional Committee Chairs

Committees Chairs Vice Chairs Society
Dispute Resolution Marco Tong

Eszter Szakács

China
Hungary
Technology Transfer
Peter Ling
Saara Inkinen
 

Shiva Loccisano
Switzerland
Austria
Italy

IP Valuation
Chris Schulte
Bob Held
USA/Canada
USA/Canada

Patent and Technology Licensing Nikos Minas
Qinghong Xu


Cândida Ribeiro Caffé
Spyros Makris

Britain/Ireland
China
Brazil
Germany

Trademarks, Designs, and Merchandising

Barbara Berdou
Jochen Schaefer



Javier Fernández-Lasquetty Quintana
South Africa
Germany
Spain/Portugal


Regional Committee Chairs

Committees Chairs Vice Chairs Society
Americas Paula Mena Barreto
Jeff Whittle
 

Renzo Scavia
Hilton Sue
Mariana Gonzalez
Cédric Sikandar

Brazil
USA/Canada
Andean Community
USA/Canada
Mexico
Brazil
Asia Pacific Lionel Tan

Singapore

European
 


Ad Hoc / Task Force Committee Chairs

Committees Chairs Vice Chairs Society
Young Members Congress
Stacey Dunn


USA/Canada


Global Technology Impact Forum
Mark Wilson
Omer Hiziroglu


Britain /Ireland
France

Women in Licensing Alliance Pam Cox
 
Judith Miller
USA/Canada
Australia-New Zealand

LESI Innovation Trends (LIT)

Bayani Loste
Tanja Sovic 
 

Antonio di Bernardo

Philippines
Austria
Italy

SDG IP Index

Rinaldo Plebani

 

Bruno Vandermeulen
Thierry Van Beckhoven
Suracha Udomsak

Italy
Benelux
Benelux
Thailand
High Growth Technology Business (HGE)

Thomas Bereuter

 
Juergen Graner
Austria
Austria
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