About me....

was born in the UK and graduated with a Politics BA from Hull University, joined the Metropolitan Police and enjoyed ten years serving in London. I then moved to Vienna where I worked for ORF and ITN as a News Editor/Broadcaster covering first the collapse of the Berlin Wall and then the breakup of the former Yugoslavia. I then moved to Bahrain where I worked for the Ministry of Information and Dow Jones Telerate to establish the annual Gulf Economic Forum Conference and Seminars. In 1998 I returned to Europe to work for the European Commission DG Enterprise to develop a pilot project for the support of Intellectual and Industrial Property Rights targeted at the EU Research Community. This project was the IPR-Helpdesk and since then I have managed a number of projects related to Intellectual and Industrial Property issues for the EC, WIPO and others. Currently I am working as a Consultant dealing with Knowledge Management, ISO 9001 Quality Assurance, IIP Asset Management, IIP Training & Enforcement issues.