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PREVIOUS PRESIDENTS

1 Mr. A. W. Richardson

From 1968 to 1972

After the formal resolution which inaugurated the International

Federation of Inventors Association in 1968, its General Assembly

elected A. W. Richardson from Great Britain as its president. He

published a message in Bulletin about this Federation expressing “it is the beginning

of the first effective international co-operation between inventors”.
2 Mr. Harald A R Romanus

From 1972 to 1976

Harald Anton Reinhold Romanus was elected as the President

of the International Federation of Inventors’ Associations (IFIA)

from 1972 to 1976. He was born on April 10, 1904, in Gothenburg

and he passed away in July 1996 in Stockholm County. In 1935 he graduated from

Harvard University in Electrical Engineering.

In 1934 the Swedish Inventors Association formed Inventor office merged into a new

organization called the Swedish Inventor’s Office and Romanus was appointed

as its Head. STU was established in 1968 to support technological research and

invention better than before and thus promote Sweden’s industrial development.

Romanus led STU’s inventive activity until his retirement. Romanus even came to

Sweden County to play a prominent role in building international cooperation

with organizations and institutions in other countries that were involved with

inventiveness and inventor issues. He was one of the initiators of the International

Federation of Inventors Association (IFIA). He was a member of The Swedish

Inventors’ Association in 1941 and actively participated in its work.

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