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Mr. John Calvert from the United
States and Mr. Michal Szota from Po-
land were elected as the session manag-
ers responsible for overseeing the election
of the IFIA President. Mr. Calvert requested
the General Assembly to vote for the re-elec-
tion of Mr. Alireza Rastegar as the President,
given the absence of any other candidate, and the
General Assembly unanimously voted in favor of his
re-election.
Following Mr. Rastegar’s re-election, Mr. Marco M. Alemán,
Assistant Director General IP and Innovation Ecosystems
Sector at WIPO, delivered a speech highlighting the key role
of inventions and innovations in advancing sustainable devel-
opment and the cooperation between IFIA and WIPO.
He has expressed that IFIA and WIPO had longtime mutual
cooperation. Therefore, he mentioned one of the significant
IP projects in which the mandate of the IP for Innovators De-
partment (IPID) is to provide local innovation support to inno-
vation stakeholders and facilitate global technology transfer
diversity and inclusion. IFIA Magazine Septeber 2023
To achieve its mission, the Department focuses on capacity
building to develop institutional innovation ecosystems of
universities, knowledge transfer organizations, and other re-
search and development institutions.

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