Irene Kitsara joined the World Intellectual Property Organization in 2009, when she co-drafted the WIPO Guide to Technology Databases. Since 2010 she has been the Project Coordinator of the Patent Landscape Reports, patent-based analysis of innovation trends and patenting patterns of technologies in the areas of public health, food and agriculture, climate change and energy, and disabilities.
Previously to her WIPO employment, Ms. Kitsara worked for the European and International Relations of the European Patent Office, preparing country reports on innovation and patent systems, but also for the European Patent Academy on an on-line forum for the preparation to the European Qualifying Examination for patent attorneys. Admitted in the Athens Bar Association and with studies at the Athens Law School and the Ludwig Maximillians University in Munich, Ms. Kitsara worked for German and Greek law firms, for the Directorate General Internal Market of the European Commission on public procurement infringement cases, the Max-Planck-Institute for International and Foreign Social Law and the Greek Ministry of Interior Affairs in the Citizen-State Relations. Ms. Kitsara is fluent in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish and Greek.
