The WIPO Coordination Committee will meet in extraordinary session on May 13-14, 2008, to “nominate a person for appointment by the General Assembly as WIPO Director General. The nominations received from WIPO Member States in response to the Circular C.N. 2833 are now available.”
The fifteen proposals for candidacy from Ms. Alicja Adamczak (Poland), Mr. Toufiq Ali (Bangladesh), Mr. Jorge Amigo Castañeda (Mexico) , Mr. Gjorgji Filipov (The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia), Mr. José Graça Aranha (Brazil), Mr. Francis Gurry, (Australia), Mr. Masood Khan (Pakistan) , Mr. Enrique A. Manalo (Philippines), Mr. Mauro Masi (Italy), Mr. James Otieno Odek (Kenya), Mr. Philippe Petit (France) , Mr. Bojan Pretnar (Slovenia), Mr. Boris P. Simonov (Russian Federation) , Mr. Yoshiyuki Takagi (Japan) and Mr. José Delmer Urbizo (Honduras) are contained in this link along with their respective CVs.
Information Concerning Procedures, Membership and Voting
According the procedures containing below, only the 83 members of the WIPO Coordination listed below may exercise their votes to nominate the future WIPO Director-General.
Afghanistan (ad hoc), Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belgium, Benin, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Côte d’Ivoire, Cuba, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia (ad hoc), Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Ireland, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, New
Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Korea, Romania, Russian Federation, Senegal, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland (ex officio), Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Yemen, Zambia (83)
Here is a list of the 101 WIPO Member States that are NOT members of the WIPO Coordination Committee. This means they can attend the Coordination Committee as observers but cannot vote during the Coordination Committee to decide the next Director General of WIPO.
Albania, Andorra, Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Belarus, Belize, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brunei Darussalam, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Djibouti, Dominica, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Fiji, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Greece, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Holy See, Honduras, Iraq, Israel, Jamaica, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Malawi, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Mauritania, Mauritius, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Qatar, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, Sao Tome and Principe, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Slovakia, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Syrian Arab Republic, Tajikistan, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, United Republic of Tanzania, Viet Nam, Zambia (101).