In 1991, Mr. Roca Campana joined WIPO as Program Officer, and subsequently held the positions of Senior Program Officer, Senior Counselor and Deputy Director of the Development Cooperation and External Relations Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean. From 2002 to 2009 he was Director of the Development Cooperation Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean.
In 2010 Mr. Roca Campana was nominated Senior Director of the Access to Information and Knowledge Division, Global Infrastructure Sector (GIS) of WIPO and is responsible for advising and coordinating the programs related to the creation and development of global infrastructure in the fields of access, search, analysis, dissemination and exchange of IP data and technical information for innovation support.
He holds a university degree in Economics by the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, with a specialization in International Economic Relations. He also obtained a specialization Diploma as a patent agent at the Russian Central Institute for Advanced Learning in Intellectual Property of the USSR State Committee of Inventions and Discoveries. In addition to Spanish (his mother tongue), he speaks fluently English, French, Russian and Italian.
