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Rena Lee To Succeed Daren Tang as Chief Executive of Singapore's IP Office

2020/06/23

Mrs Rena Lee will succeed Mr Daren Tang as the chief executive of the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) from Aug 1, said the Ministry of Law on June 19.
Mr Tang will be leaving IPOS to take up appointment as the director-general of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) on Oct 1 - becoming the first Singaporean to lead a UN agency and the first WIPO director-general from Asia.
Mrs Lee is currently Singapore’s Ambassador for Oceans and Law of the Sea Issues and the Special Envoy of the Minister for Foreign Affairs.
In this capacity, she is serving as the President of the Intergovernmental Conference on an international legally binding instrument, under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction.
 
Source: SIPO



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