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The following presentations and papers have been made available by authorization of the speakers participating in the 6th Global Congress in Cancun. Please follow the links below to download files of interest.

Day One: Wednesday 2 February 2011

Welcoming remarks

Ms Claudie Haigneré, Astronaut, Former Minister, President of UNIVERSCIENCE, France

Opening remarks

Opening Plenary - building respect for IP - Watch video

Host: Dr. Francis Gurry, Director General, WIPO

Boardroom dialogue sessions

Creating and refining the means for efficient enforcement (Watch video)

  • H.E. Fernando Ferraro, Vice-Minister of Justice, Chair of the Commission on the Protection of Intellectual Property, Costa Rica
  • Mr. Christophe Zimmermann, Co-ordinator, Combating Counterfeiting and Piracy, Compliance and Facilitation Directorate, WCO, Belgium
  • Mr. José Marquez, Administrador Central de Operacion Aduanera, Tax and Customs Administration Service, Mexico
  • Mr. Michael Ellis, Global Head Brand Protection, Beiersdorf AG, Germany
  • Mr. George Kearse, Independent consultant to the mail, express and logistics industries, United Kingdom
  • Mr. Chris O’Keeffe, Counsellor, Australian Customs and Border Protection Service, Australia

Measuring the scope and impact of infringement (Watch video)


PLENARY: Protecting consumer safety – a critical driver to fight counterfeiting

  • Mr. John Morton, Director, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), USA
  • Ms Aline Plançon, Manager, Medical Product Counterfeiting and Pharmaceutical Crime (MPCPC) Unit, INTERPOL
  • Mr. Michael Deats, Group Manager, Enforcement & Intelligence, Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, United Kingdom
  • Mr. Philippe Lamoureux, Director General, LEEM, France
  • Ms Catherine Van Reeth, Director General, Toy Industries of Europe (TIE), Belgium
  • Mr. Edouard Barreiro, Union fédérale des consommateurs-Que Choisir, Head of TIC and Commerce, France


Boardroom dialogue sessions

Competition law and building respect for IP (Watch video)

  • Mr. Hassan Qaqaya, Head of Competition and Consumers Policies Branch, UNCTAD
  • Ms Mireille Buydens, Attorney-at-Law and Professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
  • Mr. Thomas Kramler, Deputy Head of Unit, Directorate General for Competition, European Commission
  • Mr. Sisule F. Musungu, Executive President, IQsensato, Switzerland
  • Mr. João Marcelo de Lima Assafim, Partner, De Lima Assafim & Advogados Associados, and professor at the Universidade federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Anti-counterfeiting initiatives in France (Watch video)

  • Mr. Christian Peugeot, President, Union des Fabricants (Unifab), France
  • Mr. Adil El Maliki, Director General, Industrial and Commercial Property Office, Morocco
  • Ms Anne-Lise Sauterey, Observatory on illicit trafficking, Thailand
  • Mr. Jean-Luc Barbier, Director General, CIVC (Champagne), France
  • Mr. Jean-Sebastian Mariez, Director of Anti-counterfeiting, Microsoft, France

IP enforcement and sustainable development – perspectives and challenges (Watch video)

Addressing counterfeiting and piracy in the virtual world (Watch video)

Day Two: Thursday 3 February 2011

Boardroom dialogue sessions

Financing effective enforcement – innovative approaches (Watch video)

  • Ms Tatiana Gerasimova, First Deputy Chief, Investigative Committee, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Russia
  • Mr. Vinko Fodich, Jefe, Unidad de Control y Sanción, División de Seguridad Pública del Ministerio del Interior, Chile
  • Ms. Andrea Sharrin, Deputy Chief, Computer Crime & Intellectual Property Section, Criminal Division, United States Department of Justice, USA
  • Mr. John Newton, Programme Manager IP Rights Programme, INTERPOL
  • Prof. Michael Blakeney, Director, Australian Global Studies Research Center, Australia
  • Mr. Jacques Franquet, Directeur de l'Institut international contre la contrefaçon des médicaments, France

The cost of cleaning up (Watch video)

  • Mr. Antonis Kastrissianakis, Director "Security & Safety, Trade Facilitation & International Coordination", DG Taxation and Customs Union - European Commission, Belgium
  • Mr. Patrick Moeng, National Commander: Customs Border Control, South African Revenue Service, South Africa
  • Mr. Chris Merchant, Security Director EMEA, Hewlett Packard, Switzerland
  • Mr. Stephen Morris, Chairman of the Customs Affairs Institute of FIATA (International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations), Switzerland

PLENARY – Responsible destruction – eco-friendly and socially equitable disposal of infringing goods

  • H.E. Mr. Pravind Kumar Jugnauth, Vice-Prime Minister, Minister of Finance and Economic Development, Republic of Mauritius
  • Hons. Judge Louis Harms, Deputy President, Supreme Court of Appeal, South Africa
  • Mr. Ricardo Blancaflor, Director General, Intellectual Property Philippines, Philippines
  • Mr. Luc Van De Velde-Poelman, 1st Attaché of Finance, Central Administration Customs and Excise - Department Recovery and Contentious matters, Belgium
  • Mr. Olivier Vrins, Partner, Altius, Belgium


Boardroom dialogue sessions

Corporate social responsibility – nurturing respect for IP (Watch video)

  • H.E. Mr Prakash Ramadhar, Minister of Legal Affairs, Trinidad & Tobago
  • H.E. Mr. Nguyen Quan, Deputy Minister of Science and Technology, Vietnam
  • Ms. Giulia Di-Tommaso, Director of External Affairs for Africa, Middle East, and Turkey, Unilever, Netherlands
  • Ms. Louise van Greunen, Director, Building Respect for IP Division, WIPO
  • Mr. Yuichiro Kawamura, General Manager, Planning Department, Intellectual Property Division, Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Japan
  • Ms. Lucy Nichols, Global Director of Brand Enforcement, Legal and IP, Nokia, USA

Government agreements and initiatives (Watch video)

  • Mr. Jorge Amigo Castañeda, Director General, National Office of Intellectual Property (IMPI), Mexico
  • Mr. Koji Yonetani, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Economic Affairs Bureau, Japan
  • Ms. Chandni Raina, Director, Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, Ministry of Commerce & Industry, India
  • Ms. Marianna Moglia, Project Administrator, EU-China IPR2 Project on the protection of intellectual property rights

The power of education and awareness in building respect for IP (Watch video)

Securing the supply chain - understanding the customer (Watch video)

  • Mr. Olivier Tsalpatouros, Head of Customs and International trade, LA POSTE Group, France
  • Mr. Cristoph Lanz, Secretary General, International Fair of Basel, Switzerland
  • Mr. D'Arcy Quinn, Director, Anti-Counterfeiting, CropLife International, Belgium
  • Mr. Christian Swan, Manager of Regulatory Affairs and Brand Integrity, Philip Morris International
  • Mr. Robert Barcheisi, President, International Anti-Counterfeiting Association (IACC)

CLOSING PLENARY (Watch video)

Host: Mr. Francis Gurry, Director General, WIPO

 

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