WIPO

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Director, Global Business Inroads (GBI), India.

Leena Pishe Thomas is the Director of Global Business Inroads. She has two decades of

experience in the field of International Business, Technology and Project Management in the

Climate Change Mitigation, Energy, Environment, Transport, Biotech and ICT sectors

working with various US, European and Asia-Pac organizations.

Leena established Global Business Inroads (GBI) in September 2009 to assist and serve

Government, NGOs, Financial Institutions, and Private Sector organizations with their

technology, sustainable energy, environment project development, market access and

international business needs. GBI is present and actively connecting technology companies

and innovation ecosystems to new markets across India, Europe, UK, USA, Africa and SE

Asia. GBI has worked with 200+ technologies – managing their entry and commercialization

into India and helping Indian start-ups access US, South and SE Asia and EU markets.

Leena has been appointed as the Co-Chair for the SME Technology Development Centre

and has been invited by the SME Chamber of India to be the honorary member

of the National Advisory Council of the Chamber for the period of 3 years. She has also

been instrumental in the implementation in the European Commission’s pilot initiative called

the Europe – India Innovation Partnership (EIIP) and EU-Sri Lanka Innovation Partnership

(EU-SLIP), which aims at fostering innovation and ultimately provide access for international

technology transfer.

She holds a B.A. (Honors) in History and Economics from Lady Shri Ram College for

Women, University of Delhi and followed that up with business management from ICFAI,

Hyderabad.

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Irene Kitsara is IP Information Officer in the Technology and Innovation Support\r\nDivision of WIPO. She has 12 years of experience in patent analytics and is\r\nresponsible for related activities. She is the product lead of the WIPO\r\nflagship publication Technology Trends, and has been the Project Coordinator of\r\nthe Patent Landscape Reports (PLR) since 2010 (with 18 PLRs to have been\r\npublished by the end of 2021). She led the development of the Guidelines for\r\nPreparing Patent Landscape Reports, the Manual on Free and Open Source Tools\r\nfor Patent Analytics and currently the Handbook on Patent Analytics. Ms.\r\nKitsara developed the area of training on patent analytics for the WIPO\r\nTechnology and Innovation Support Centers (TISCs) and provides related\r\ntraining. Previously to her WIPO employment, Ms. Kitsara worked for German and\r\nGreek Law firms, the European Patent Office, the European Commission, the\r\nMax-Planck-Institute for International and Foreign Social Law, and the Greek\r\nMinistry of Interior Affairs in the Citizen-State Relations. Ms Kitsara is IP\r\nlawyer admitted at the Athens Bar Association, with studies at the LMU in\r\nMunich Germany and Law Faculty of Athens.

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Phyllis Leah Speser, J.D., Ph.D., R.T.T.P., N.P.D.P, E.M.T.

Chair, Board of Directors, Foresight Science &\r\nTechnology, has been a pioneer and thought leader in commercialization,\r\ntechnology transfer, entrepreneurship, and using these to build sustainable,\r\ngreen economies globally. A formal biography is available on the company\r\nwebsite (www.foresightst.com). The J.D. is a doctorate in law, where she has\r\ntaught intellectual property and legal thinking. The Ph.D. is in Political\r\nScience, where she has taught everything from Political Philosophy to the\r\nPolitics of Archaeology to Commercialization of Technology. R.T.T.P.s are Registered\r\nTechnology Transfer Professionals; N.P.D.P. are certified New Product\r\nDevelopment Professionals; E.M.T.s are Emergency Medical Personnel. Phyllis\r\nLeah Speser has been a registered US lobbyist, US federally funded researcher\r\nin AI, a consultant for governments, companies, universities and other research\r\ninstitutions around the world, and the co-founder of the company Foresight\r\nScience & Technology. Most recently she has been working with WIPO to\r\ndevelop a toolkit and training in new product development for use by TISCs and\r\nthe entrepreneurs they help. Special attention is paid to how public domain\r\ntechnology disclosed in published patents can be leveraged for new product\r\ndevelopment.

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