| Dr Farag Moussa first worked with
the Egyptian Foreign Ministry (1951-1957) and the League of Arab States (1958-1969), as a
diplomat and a public relations officer. He then joined the World Intellectual Property
Organization (WIPO) where he worked for 20 years. Although responsible for External
Relations and United Nations affairs, Dr Moussa "invented" a new activity in
WIPO: the promotion of inventors and inventions. He was President of IFIA from October
1990 to December 2004. In April 2005, he was
elected as the Honorary President of IFIA.
Dr Moussa is the author of 16 books (five on diplomacy and 11 on women inventors published in eight languages: English, French, Russian, Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Dutch and Finnish). Dr Moussa has visited over 80 countries from all regions of the world. He has received several distinctions, in particular the Middle Cross of the Merit Order, which was confered by the President of the Republic of Hungary in 1996. Among the other distinctions he has received are the Gold Medal from the Egyptian Patent Office (1984), the WIPO Gold Medal (Geneva, 1994), the Garcia Cabrerizo Foundation Medal of Honor (Spain, 1996), the Golden Medal of Merit (Finland, 1996) and the big bronze medal of the Sovereign Military and Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem, Grand Priorate of Hungary (2002).
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