Prabuddha Ganguli
He is the CEO of “VISION-IPR” offering services in management of Intellectual Property Rights, Information Security and Knowledge Management. He is a IPR Consultant to WIPO for IPR capacity building programmes in developing countries, an elected Fellow of the Maharashtra Academy of Sciences and Adjunct Professor at the Institute of Intellectual Property Law, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, Honorary Scientific Consultant for Innovation and IPR matters to the Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser, Government of India and a member of the Advisory Board of the International Intellectual Property Institute, Washington. He is also member of the Advisory Board of the Institute of Intellectual Property Studies, Mumbai and a Senate Member of the National Institute of Fashion Technology, India. He is a member of the International Editorial Board of the IPR Journal “World Patent Information“.. He has over 50 publications in Technical subjects and over 60 publications in Intellectual Property Rights and has authored 4 books in the field of Intellectual Property Rights. With M.Sc. in Chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology (Kanpur) and Ph.D. from Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, and postdoctoral research in Germany as an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellow, his experience spans academic research followed by 2 decades in industry in diverse managerial roles in Hindustan Lever Ltd, the Indian Subsidiary of Unilever.