WIPO

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Mr. Aleman, studied law at the Javeriana\r\nUniversity (J.D., 1991) where he also obtained a Corporate Law Certificate\r\n(L.L.M., 1996). He then obtained a Diploma in Advanced Studies (DEA) in\r\nResearch at the Alcala University (Spain, 2006), and a Ph.D. in Law (2011, Cum\r\nLaude).

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Mr. Aleman\r\npracticed as an IP Attorney from 1991 to 1995. He was then appointed Head of\r\nthe Colombian Industrial Property Office, from 1995 to 1998, and was invited as\r\na Fellow Visiting Researcher at the Max Planck Institute in Munich, Germany in\r\n1998. He joined WIPO in 1999 as Senior Program Officer, Office of Cooperation\r\nfor Development for Latin America and the Caribbean (from 1999 to 2006). He was\r\nthen appointed Deputy Director in the Division for Public Policy and\r\nDevelopment (from 2006 to 2009), Deputy Director of the Patent Law Division\r\n(from 2009 to 2013), and went on to be Director of the Patent Law Division. He\r\ncurrently holds the position of Assistant Director General, leading the IP and\r\nInnovation Ecosystems Sector (IES).

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Mr. Aleman is responsible for\r\nhelping Member States develop their IP and innovation ecosystems to drive\r\neconomic growth. He is also responsible for providing support for researchers,\r\ninnovators, and enterprises, including SMEs. Other key focus areas include IP\r\ncommercialization for business growth; emergence of IP as an asset class;\r\ndevelopment of advisory expertise on national IP strategies; economic analysis\r\non the role IP plays in promoting innovation and creativity; strengthening ADR\r\nand the services provided by the Arbitration and Mediation Center; and\r\nproviding technical assistance to the judiciary, as well as services related to\r\nthe legal databases.

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Director, IP for Business Division, IP and \r\nInnovation Ecosystems Sector, WIPO

Prior to joining WIPO, Guy was a\r\nLaw Professor at the Faculty of Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem,\r\nspecializing in Intellectual Property, Law & Technology and the Creative\r\nIndustries. Guy was a Fulbright Scholar, Residential Fellow at the Information\r\nSociety Project, Yale Law School; a Visiting Professor at Columbia Law School,\r\nCity University Hong Kong, UBC and the Center for Transnational Legal Studies,\r\nGeorgetown University Law School and also an Erasmus Mundus, Visiting Scholar\r\nat the Center for Law, Society and Popular Culture, University of Westminster.

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Prior to his academic career,\r\nGuy clerked for Justice Zamir at the Israeli Supreme Court and has worked at\r\nthe Economic Department of the Israeli State Attorney's Office; The Israeli\r\nAntitrust Authority; the Bank of Israel and as a private legal counsel, in the\r\narea of Intellectual Property, including counselling to technology transfer\r\noffices, startups, technology and media companies.

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