Daren Tang
Daren Tang | |
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邓鸿森 | |
Tang in 2024 | |
| 5th Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization | |
| Assumed office 1 October 2020 | |
| Preceded by | Francis Gurry |
| Chief Executive of Intellectual Property Office of Singapore | |
| In office November 2015 – July 2020 | |
| Succeeded by | Rena Lee |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1972 (age 52–53) Singapore |
| Education | National University of Singapore (LLB) Georgetown University (LLM) |
Daren Tang Heng Shim (Chinese: 邓鸿森; born 1972) is the fifth and current Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). He is also Secretary-General of the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV). Tang previously headed the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) and was a trade lawyer for the government of Singapore.