<Education> 2001 - 2002 MBA, Swansea University  1988 - 1989 Post Graduate Certificate in Manufacturing Engineering, Wolfson College Cambridge University 1985 - 1988 Degree in Humanities, Gonville and Caius College   <Career> 2017.5 - Present. Chief Executive and Comptroller General, IPO 2013 - 2017 President, Corporate Registers Forum  2012 - 2017 Chief Executive and Registrar, Companies House

President Kwang Hyung Lee is a futurologist who pioneered multidisciplinary studies and research at KAIST. He  advocated  that  the  convergence  of information, biology, and nano-technologies would be critical for future industries, playing a crucial role in establishing the Department of Bio and Brain Engineering in 2001 and the Moon Soul Graduate School of Future Strategy in 2013. He then served as the inaugural head of both faculties. President Lee has extensive administrative experience at KAIST, serving as Associate Vice President of the International Office, and Associate Vice President of Academic Affairs since early 2001. He is also serving as a member of the Korea Presidential Education Committee. An ardent champion of entrepreneurship and startups, he has advised the first generations of KAIST startup entrepreneurs such as Nexon, IDIS, Neowiz, and Olaworks. President Lee, drawn to creative thinking and flipped learning, is famous for watching TV upside down. Such pioneering ideas and his unusual thinking style were modeled in the ‘eccentric professor’ role featured on the TV hit drama of ‘KAIST’ from 1999 to 2000.   An alumnus who earned his MS in industrial engineering at KAIST in 1980 after completing his undergraduate studies at Seoul National University, President Lee joined the KAIST faculty in 1985 upon receiving his PhD in computer science from INSA de Lyon in France. A computer scientist as well as fuzzy theorist whose research area extends to AI, bioinformatics, fuzzy intelligent systems, and foresight methods, President Lee has published more than 70 papers in international journals and textbooks on system programming, fuzzy set theory and its applications, and three-dimensional creativity. He also invented a fuzzy elevator, subway operation controller, and AI transportation controller.   A fellow at the Korea Academy of Science and Technology and the National Academy of Engineering of Korea, he was decorated by the Korean government and  the  French  government  in  recognition of  the  innovative  education  and research initiatives he has pursued.

<Education> 1990 - 1998 Seoul National University, Nuclear Engineering 1987 - 1990 Dongwon High School, Suwon, Korea <Career> 2020.6 - Present. Vice Chairperson, Korea Intellectual Property Association  2020.1 - Present. Senior Vice President / Group Leader, Intellectual Property Center, LG Chem.  2015.1 - 2019.12 Vice President / Center Leader, Intellectual Property Center, LG Chem.  2013.3 - 2014.12 Vice President, Legal Team, LG Corp.  2005.3 - 2013.2 Judge  2003.3 - 2005.1 The 34th Judicial Research and Training Institute  2002.12 Passed the 44th Korean National Bar Exam  1998.4 - 1999.11 Deputy Director, Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO)  1997.12 Passed the 33rd High Civil Service Examination

<Education> 1984 Kwangdeok High School in Gwangju, Korea 1991 Yonsei University (BA in Public Administration), Korea 2012 Chungnam National University (Master in Law), Korea <Career> 2021.01 Director General, Planning & Coordination Bureau, KIPO  2021.08 Director General, Intellectual Property Protection & International Cooperation Bureau, KIPO 2019.10 Director General, Trademark & Design Examination Bureau, KIPO 2017.08 Director General, Information & Customer Service Bureau, KIPO 2016.02 Chief Administrative Judge, Intellectual Property Trial & Appeal Board of                Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) 2016.01 Judge, Intellectual Property Trial & Appeal Board of Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) 2013.05 Director, Planning & Budget Division, KIPO 2012.03 Director, Intellectual Property Policy Division, KIPO 2011.08 Director, Intellectual Property Protection Division, KIPO 2008.09 Director, Trademark & Design Examination Support Division, KIPO 2005.02 Director, International Trademark Examination Division, KIPO 2004.07 Administrative Judge, Intellectual Property Trial & Appeal Board, KIPO 1993.12 Passed the 37rd Civil Service Examination the Higher Civil Service Examination

Alasdair has an unrivalled breadth of experience across the IP professions. A science and law graduate, he originally qualified as a barrister in the late 70s before going on to qualify as a patent attorney, a solicitor and a trade mark attorney.   He is returning for a second term as CIPA President, having previously led the Institute in 2010-11. Alasdair worked to introduce and structure the then new professional regulator, IPReg, travelling the country as Vice-President, President and Immediate Past President to gain consensus across the profession over the implementation of the new regulatory regime.   Since then he has kept an eye on regulation while promoting UK patent attorneys’ litigation skills (including working on CIPA’s first Litigation Skills Course and representing CIPA on the IP and Intellectual Property Enterprise Court User Committees), editing the CIPA Journal, assisting in organizing Congress, chairing various CIPA committees, speaking at seminars and generally working to ensure CIPA and the UK patent attorney profession both remain world class.

 <Education> Graduated from Waseda University Faculty of Science and Engineering, Department of Applied Chemistry <Career>  2012 - Present. Member of the Advisory Committee for Strengthening Competitiveness and International                           Standardization by Intellectual Property, Intellectual Property Strategy Headquarters,                          Cabinet Office, Evaluation / Verification / Planning Committee Members, Intellectual Property                           Education Task Force Members, etc.  2005 - Present. Vice President of Japan Patent Attorneys Association 2003 - 2005 Court Investigator  2001 - Present. Patent Attorney, Co-Representative of Promete International Patent Office    Part-time Lecturer, Waseda University Business School  Member of the Intellectual Property Strategy Headquarters, Cabinet Office (Member of the Concept Committee)  Vice President, Licensing Executive Society International  Director, Japan Subcommittee of the Asian Patent Attorneys Association  Member of the Intellectual Property Subcommittee of the Industrial Structure Council (Member of the Patent System Subcommittee, Member of the Unfair Competition Prevention Subcommittee)  Member of the General Assembly of the Japanese Industrial Standards Committee  ISO Intellectual Property Management Development Committee  Former Chairman, Licensing Executive Society Japan  Registered as a patent attorney after belonging to the research department of an oil company

<Education> 2001 Bachelor of Science, Department of Life Sciences, Korea University 2006 Master of Law (Major : Intellectual Property Law), Korea University Graduate School 2010 Ph.D. in Law (Major : Intellectual Property Law), Korea University Graduate School <Career> 2021 - 2022 KIPO, Patent Law Revision Promotion Council, Member 2021 Presidential Council on Intellectual Property, Korea Intellectual Property network(KIPnet)           IP-Protection Division, Member 2021 - 2022 Korea Institute of S&T Evaluation and Planning (KISTEP).                       Research Results Utilization and Diffusion Policy Advisory Group 2019 Presidential Council on Intellectual Property, Bioindustry IP Special Expert Committee, Member 2019 KIPO, Small Invention and Idea Protection Forum, Member 2015 - 2016 KIPO, Patent Quality Advisory Committee, Member 2007 - 2008 Science and Technology Policy Institute(STEPI), Researcher

<Career> Former Visiting Professor, Institute of Business Law and Comparative Law&Politics(IBC),  Graduate School for Law and Politics, University of Tokyo, Japan  Chairman of information and Communication Technologies Task Force, ITPC  Mediator of Internet Address Dispute Resolution Committee  Member of Legislation Support Office of the National Assembly  Exam Question Designers for the Korean National Bar Exam, The Public Administration Examination, The Legislation Administration Examination, Korean National Patent Bar Exam, Examination for the Bar Exam  Chairman of Korea Academic Association of Industrial Security  President of the Academic Institute of Culture contents and Law Former President of the Korean Association of Arbitration Studies  Civilian Member of National FTA Countermeasure Committee  President of Korea Academic Association of Korea Intellectual Property  Civilian Member of Industrial Technology Protection Committee  Present) Professor of the Law School at Hanyang University, South korea

<Education> JD at Washington Univ. in St. Louis School of Law LL.M at Washington Univ. in St. Louis School of Law B.Eng., Mechanical Engineering at KAIST <Career> Present) Senior IP Legal Counsel at HP Inc. Former) Associate Attorney at Kang Intellectual Property Law, LLC Former) Law Clerk at Energizer Holdings Former) Lecturer at Seoul National University College of Law Former) Adjunct Professor at Sungkyunkwan University

<Education> 1988.3 - 1995.2 Graduated from the Department of Business Administration,                             Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, College of Commerce <Career> 2005.5 - Present. Korea Venture Business Association(Division Director) 1999.10 - 2005.3 GMC Venture Capital(Planning Manager) 1995.2 - 1999.1 Seoul Guarantee Insurance(4th grade)

 While serving as a professor in the Department of Technology Management at Konkuk university, he served as the Vice President of Strategy and Director of the Startup Support Foundation. He has served on several governmental committees, such as the National Science and Technology Commission, and the National Intellectual Property Commission, advising various government ministries and local governments. He has provided advice to various government-funded research institutes including KIST and ETRI, as well as universities and public companies such as KAIST, UNIST and Korea Health Promotion Institute. He recently served as the chairman of the 2nd National Intellectual Property Master Plan Policy Review Committee, and was elected president of the Korean Society for of Technology Commercialization & Scale Up. He has been contributing lectures and columns for businesses through SERICEO and a daily newspaper for several years.​

He is a professor of law at Chung-Ang University School of Law in Seoul, Republic of Korea. He obtained an LLB and an LLM from Yonsei University in Seoul, an LLM in comparative Asian law from the University of Washington in Seattle (WA; USA), and a JSD in comparative civil procedure from Washington University in St. Louis (MO; USA). Also, he served as a visiting research at Georgetown University Law and a visiting scholar at Washington University School of Law. Currently, he is serving as the editor-in-chief of Korean Yearbook of International Law and of Culture, Media and Entertainment Law. Also, he is the president of the Association of Content Property for Next Generation and the Association of International Cultural Property Law. In addition, he is serving as a vice president of Korea Private International Law Commission, Expert Committee (for Emerging IP) at Presidential Council in Intellectual Property, AIPPI Standing Committee on GIs, ACHS ICH Network, and ILA Committee in Participation in Global Cultural Heritage Governance.