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Brimelow to Chair CREATe’s Programme Advisory Council

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Brimelow to Chair CREATe’s Programme Advisory Council

By 17 January 2014No Comments

A_Brimelow_smallWe are delighted to announce that Alison Brimelow has been appointed as the Chair of CREATe’s Programme Advisory Council. In a distinguished career at the very forefront of intellectual property policy Alison is a former Chief Executive and Comptroller General of the UK Patent Office (now the Intellectual Property Office) and was the fifth President of the European Patent Office, a position she held from 2007 to 2010.

CREATe’s Programme Advisory Council is established to assist and shape the research agenda and academic vision of the Centre. Its two core functions are to support engagement with stakeholders, especially industry, policy makers, public sector cultural institutions and civil society and to provide domain expertise in proposing and reviewing applications for new work.