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6 Dr. Farag MOUSSA
| IF I A Magazine - September 2020

From 1992 to 2004

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 2006. 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.

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Mr. Eduardo Roberto Fernandez

From 2004 to 2006

Eduardo Roberto Fernandez was elected as IFIA President by the

unanimous vote of General Assembly in 2005, however, after some

times he resigned from this position due to his personal problems.

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