Tshimanga Kongolo

Tshimanga Kongolo has been with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Academy for almost 18 years. Prior to joining WIPO, he taught IP at Osaka University, Osaka, Japan. He also spent seven months as a Research Fellow (while being with Osaka University) at Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Patent, Copyright and Competition Law, Munich, Germany, in 2000. His key areas of expertise involve international IP law; branding and innovation; African IP systems; and...See more

Tshimanga Kongolo has been with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Academy for almost 18 years. Prior to joining WIPO, he taught IP at Osaka University, Osaka, Japan. He also spent seven months as a Research Fellow (while being with Osaka University) at Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Patent, Copyright and Competition Law, Munich, Germany, in 2000. His key areas of expertise involve international IP law; branding and innovation; African IP systems; and global IP challenges, including traditional knowledge and IP and public health. He has widely published books and articles on those areas in peer-reviewed top international IP journals (see Google Scholar). See less