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He is the CEO of “VISION-IPR” offering services in management of Intellectual Property Rights, Information Security and Knowledge Management. He is a leading international expert in IPR and a Consultant to the World Intellectual Property Organization for IPR capacity building, an expert in IPR policy for several governments and an elected Fellow of the Maharashtra Academy of Sciences. After several years in academic research, he worked in industry for 2 decades holding diverse managerial roles including R&D, technology assessment, forecasting and transfer, knowledge management, factory management and business planning. He is Honorary Scientific Consultant for Innovation and IPR matters to the Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser; Government of India; a member of the Advisory Board of the IIPI, Washington; a Member of the Senate of National Institute of Fashion Technology, India; a member of the International Editorial Board of “World Patent Information. He has over 50 publications in technical fields, over 60 publications in IPR. He also published 5 books: “Gearing up for Patents--The Indian Scenario” Universities Press (1998); “Intellectual Property Rights--Unleashing the Knowledge Economy”, Tata McGrawHill (2001); “Shaping the Future”, UNIDO-WIPO-IMTMA(2005); “Technology Transfer issues in Biotechnology-- A Global Perspective” co-edited with Dr Ben Prickril and Dr Rita Khanna, published by Wiley-VCH (Germany) (2009); and “Geographical Indications-its evolving contours”, released in 2009.
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