Shen Changyu, a member of the Communist Party of China and of Han nationality, was born in June, 1963 in Nanyang, Henan Province. Mr. Shen is an academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, a winner of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, and the chief scientist of "973" Program.

Ms. Wang (China) is responsible for the Brands and Designs Sector. As well as supporting the work of Member States in the Standing Committee on the Law of Trademarks, Industrial Designs and Geographical Indications (SCT), the Sector administers the Madrid System for International Trademark Registrations; the Hague System for International Design Registrations; and the Lisbon System for International Registrations of Appellations of Origin.

For Ms. Wang the Sector's main challenge is "to further improve the operation of the three registration systems so stakeholders have access to high quality, cost-effective, efficient and user-friendly services." Ms. Wang joined WIPO in 1992 to work in the Cooperation for Development Bureau for Asia and the Pacific, and held senior positions in the Office of the Director General, prior to her appointment as Assistant Director General in December 2006. Before joining WIPO, Ms. Wang served in a number of government posts in China and abroad, and headed the China Trademark Service, then under the State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC)

Yang Tiejun, a member of the Communist Party of China and of Han nationality, was born in December, 1955 in Beijing. He graduated from Changchun Institute of Posts and Telecommunications. From 1983 to 1998, he had taken a series of posts, including the examiner, Deputy Office head and Deputy Director of the Electricity Division of Chinese Patent Office (CPO). From 1998 to 2003, he was the Deputy Director and then Director of the Electricity Division of CPO under State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO). In 2004, he took office as the Director of Telecommunication Division of CPO. From 2004 to 2006, he had taken such posts as the Secretary General of CPO and Director of the Examination Management Department. From July, 2006 until now, he has been the Vice Commissioner of State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) and a member of the Party Group of SIPO

Ma Weiye is the director and researcher of Patent Management Division of the State Intellectual Property Office. Apart from that, he also holds a number of professional posts, which include vice chairman of Strategy Committee of China Development Strategy Institution, managing director of China Appraisal Society, managing director of China Invention Association, managing director of China Intellectual Property Research Association, as well as member of the Economic Committee of All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce. Meanwhile, Ma Weiye has also been engaged as a part-time professor by China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Tongji University, Northwest University, Hefei University of Technology, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing Technology and Business University, Jiangsu University, Tianjing University of Finance and Economics, as well as National Lawyer's Institute

Mr. Lu Guoliang is the Deputy Director of the China Office of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). He had worked in Geneva as the Senior Program Specialist of the Hague Registry of WIPO from November 2010 to July 2014. Since 1998 to 2010, he had been the Director General and Deputy Director General of International Cooperation Department of State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO). He had held various positions in the SIPO and Chinese Patent Office (CPO) from 1987 to 1998, including Deputy Director of Asian and Pacific Division of International Cooperation Department of SIPO; Deputy Director of Telecommunication Division of Electricity Department of CPO; Patent Examiner of Electricity Department of CPO. Mr. Lu Guoliang obtained a LLM of Law degree from the John Marshall Law School, in Chicago, Illinois 2001，and a Bachelor degree in Beijing 1983.

Paul Fehlner is Head of Intellectual Property, Novartis Pharma. The Pharma Intellectual Property team is responsible for obtaining and enforcing intellectual property rights for Pharma's products. The team acts as "IP Architects," working to build a holistic IP portfolio. This includes patents, trademarks, regulatory exclusivities and other intellectual property rights

Paul joined Novartis in 2008 from the law firm of Baker Botts, where he specialized in intellectual property counseling and strategic planning in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries. Paul has over 22 years experience in intellectual property law, including seven years as a partner at Darby & Darby, with earlier work as biotechnology counsel for Rhone-Poulence Rorer, and as associate for the boutique IP firm of Klauber & Jackson. He started his career as a Law Clerk in the biotech and pharmaceutical group at Pennie & Edmonds

Ma Xianmin is currently Director of the Intellectual Property Office of Guangdong Province. Having studied traditional Chinese medicine, and philosophy of science and technology, Mr. Ma has been engaged in the researches of science and technology policies, planned management and intellectual property rights, and other management works. Apart from that, he once participated in the planning and promotion of state-level regional patent information service center (Guangzhou).

Mark Ringes currently serves as Vice President and Assistant General Counsel, IP Law. In this position, he and his team of legal professionals are responsible for the development, protection and optimization of IBM's Intellectual Property portfolio.

Mark joined the IBM legal department in 1992 supporting the Sales and Distribution organization in Southfield, Michigan. In 1996, he joined the ISSC Corporation in Somers, New York, the predecessor to IBM Global Services. In 2001, Mark took a role as Senior Counsel, IBM Global Services Europe Middle East and Africa (EMEA) managing the legal support for all of IBM's Services operations in EMEA. In October 2002, he was appointed Vice President, Associate General Counsel for IBM Global Technology Services (GTS) Americas, where he managed a group of lawyers responsible for IBM's strategic outsourcing and ITS business in the Americas. In October 2006, Mark became Vice President, Assistant General Counsel for IBM Global Technology Services. In that role, he managed the team of lawyers and contract professionals supporting IBM GTS' business opportunities across the globe. In March 2011, Mark moved over to support IBM's Global Business Services organization, where he managed the group of lawyers and contract professionals responsible for supporting IBM's Consulting and System Integration and Application Management Services businesses worldwide

Prior to joining IBM's legal department, Mark worked as an attorney with Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn in Detroit, Michigan. He also worked as Software Programmer for IBM in Fishkill, New York from 1983 through 1986 before entering the University of Michigan Law School

He Jia specializes in the studies of physics and electronics related patent retrieval and patent strategies. He has taken charge of a number of major overseas intellectual property rights pre-warning projects and construction projects of patent information platform, through which he has accumulated rich practical experience in patent pre-warning, patent map analysis, as well as enterprise patent strategy. In 2012, he was named "National Teaching Talent of Patent Information" by State Intellectual Property Office of the PRC. He is also a lecturer of patent retrieval and analysis at Aviation Industry Corporation of China
Patent Information Services he has participated in or has taken charge of (selection):
Analysis Project on Patent Pr-warning of Intelligent Recognition Technology Hanwang Technology Co., Ltd
Overseas Intellectual Property Rights Pre-warning Project in Mobile Storage Field Aigo
RFID Patent Information Retrieval and Database Platform Construction Project Shanghai Integrated Circuit Design & Research Center
The Flat TV Patent Information Platform Construction Project Intellectual Property Office of Guangdong Province
Report on Retrieval and Analysis of Switch Control Technology Patent, the Research Institute of China Mobile

Zhu Yan is a full professor at the Department of Management Science and Engineering in the School of Economics and Management (Tsinghua SEM), Tsinghua Univeristy. He is also a deputy Party secretary of Tsinghua SEM. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. in Engineering Physics from Tsinghua Univeristy in 1998 and B.S. in Engineering Physics from Tsinghua Univeristy in 1994. He conducted his Postdoctoral research at the Department of Management Science and Engineering in the School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua Univeristy from 2000 to 2002. His research interests focus on Internet Behavior and Internet Economy, E-Commerce, Trust Management and Healthcare Management, etc. Dr. Zhu teaches Information System (MBA), Information Management (MBA/EMBA), Enterprise Resource Planning (MBA), Introduction to Information Management (Undergraduate) at Tsinghua SEM, in which Introduction to Information Management has been the Elaborate Course of Tsinghua University

Dr. Thomas Lorenz is Vice President at BASF SE. He leads the BASF Group Information Center with information professionals at 9 sites, 3 each in Europe, America and Asia. Dr. Lorenz is based in Ludwigshafen, Germany, which is the company's largest R&D site

Current global responsibilities include patent, literature and business information search and analysis services, provision of enduser information systems, information acquisition and distribution, management of internal research information and research-specific IT services.

Dr. Lorenz joined BASF in 1988 after taking a degree in physics, followed by a PhD in chemistry from Kaiserslautern University. For much of his career at BASF he has worked in the field of informatics.

Dr. Lorenz has been a member and chair of several industrial and governmental advisory boards.

Currently he is president of the Patent Documentation Group, PDG

James M. ("Jim") Ross is an Assistant General Counsel in the Patent Group of Microsoft Corporation, based in Redmond, Washington, USA. He leads the Applications, Services and Dynamics Patent Portfolio Development team and the Inbound Patent Conflicts team. Jim joined Microsoft in 2003, after years of private practice in the Washington D.C./Northern Virginia area (Wiley, Rein & Fielding; Kenyon & Kenyon; and Shaw Pittman). He graduated from Stanford University with a B.A.S. in History and Electrical Engineering (1988), and from the University of Chicago Law School (with Honors, 1995). Prior to attending law school, Jim worked in the U.S. House of Representatives as a legislative assistant (1989-92), and after law school he served as a law clerk for Judge Alvin A. Schall of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (1995-96).