💡 Daren Tang — Director-General of WIPO

Designed Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Tang was born in Singapore. Educated at Harvard University, Georgetown University and Singapore University of Social Sciences.

Daren Tang is the Director-General of WIPO. This page tracks publications from this office and sourced personal appearances — 13 source records across 13 days — compiled automatically from the linked source and updated daily.

Office: Director-General of WIPO
Country: 💡 World Intellectual Property Organization
Office base: Geneva (not current location)
Latest entry: Wednesday, October 14, 2026
Overseas days tracked: 0
Tracking since: Friday, March 13, 2026
Born: 1972 (age 54)
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Source: World Intellectual Property Organization
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Tang today

Public schedule for Sunday, October 25, 2026. Current physical location is not established by the available sources. No sourced, dated appearance is available for today. This may reflect a collection gap or a source that publishes news instead of a diary. Latest office publication (2026-10-14): WIPO’s “Creators Learn Intellectual Property” (CLIP) Initiative Expands: Now Supporting Visual Artists in Understanding and Managing their Rights.

This week’s sourced appearances

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Wednesday, October 14, 2026

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WIPO’s “Creators Learn Intellectual Property” (CLIP) Initiative Expands: Now Supporting Visual Artists in Understanding and Managing their Rights

WIPO’s CLIP today expands beyond music to cover visual arts, offering painters, sculptors, illustrators, photographers, muralists and other visual artists practical information on how their intellectual property rights can help them protect

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Monday, October 12, 2026

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WIPO Names Charleroi, Liverpool and Shanghai as First “City of Innovation” Award Winners

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) today named Charleroi (Belgium), Liverpool (United Kingdom) and Shanghai (China) as the first winners of its “City of Innovation” awards program that recognizes cities’ commitments to adva

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Tuesday, September 29, 2026

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WIPO Global Innovation Index 2026: Switzerland, Sweden, US, Republic of Korea and Singapore Top Ranking; AI Reshaping Innovation Investments as Deep Science Startups Top $7.6 Trillion

Switzerland, Sweden, the US, the Republic of Korea and Singapore are the world’s most-innovative economies, according to WIPO’s Global Innovation Index 2026, which also shows that AI is driving a rebound in innovation investments.

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Tuesday, September 8, 2026

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WIPO GII: Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou, Tokyo-Yokohama, San Jose-San Francisco, Beijing and Seoul Are World’s Biggest “Innovation Clusters”

Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou, Tokyo-Yokohama, San Jose-San Francisco, Beijing and Seoul are the world’s five biggest “GII Innovation Clusters,” or concentrations of innovative activity identified by WIPO through the analysis of internationa

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Tuesday, July 14, 2026

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GenAI Innovation Soaring, With Patent Activity Nearly Tripling in Two Years

The generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) patent landscape has reached a new milestone, with more new patents published in 2024 and 2025 than in the entire preceding ten years combined, according to new data published today by the Worl

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Friday, July 10, 2026

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WIPO 2026 Global Awards Winners: Eleven Companies Recognized for Using IP to Build and Scale Their Businesses

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) today announced the 11 winners of the WIPO Global Award 2026, celebrating companies that demonstrated excellence in using intellectual property (IP) to bring to market products including d

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Wednesday, July 8, 2026

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Intangible Investment Tops USD 10 Trillion for the First Time, Growing More Than Three Times Faster Than Tangible Investment

Investment in intangible assets crossed the USD 10 trillion mark for the first time in 2025, with the United States alone accounting for nearly half of the total, as investments in software, data, brands and other intellectual property-back

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Thursday, May 28, 2026

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WIPO Appoints Princess Sirivannavari Nariratana Rajakanya of Thailand as Ambassador for Fashion and Design

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) today appointed Her Royal Highness Princess Sirivannavari Nariratana Rajakanya of the Kingdom of Thailand as WIPO Ambassador for Fashion and Design, recognizing Her Royal Highness’s outsta

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Saturday, April 25, 2026

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World Intellectual Property Day 2026: New WIPO Data Show IP Use Booming in Sports Industry

Golf, swimming and racket sports are the most patent-intensive areas of the sports industry, where use of intellectual property (IP) is rising at above-average rates, according to a new World Intellectual Property Organization report releas

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Tuesday, April 21, 2026

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Daren Tang Appointed for Second Term as WIPO Director General

The Member States of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) today appointed Daren Tang to a second six-year term of office as Director General of the Organization.

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Wednesday, March 25, 2026

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WIPO Launches New Award for Cities of Innovation

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) today launched the “WIPO City of Innovation” award program, a new initiative that recognizes cities worldwide demonstrating exceptional commitment to fostering innovation and creativity am

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Tuesday, March 17, 2026

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WIPO Launches Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Interchange

WIPO today launched the Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Interchange (AIII), a new initiative for expert dialogue on IP and AI issues that will focus on technical and operational issues and complement ongoing discussions at other WIPO

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Friday, March 13, 2026

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Albania is First to Join WIPO’s Riyadh Design Law Treaty

Albania today became the first member state to join WIPO’s Riyadh Design Law Treaty (RDLT), depositing its instrument of ratification with Director General Daren Tang and marking a major milestone in bringing into force the new internationa

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Overseas share: 0 of 13 tracked days (0%) were flagged as overseas travel

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Who is Daren Tang?

Daren Tang is the Director-General of WIPO, based in Geneva, World Intellectual Property Organization.

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