Daren Tang

Daren Tang
邓鸿森
Tang in 2024
5th Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization
Assumed office
1 October 2020
Preceded byFrancis Gurry
Chief Executive of Intellectual Property Office of Singapore
In office
1 October 2020 – July 2020
Succeeded byRena Lee
Personal details
Born1972 (age 53–54)
EducationNational University of Singapore (LLB)
Georgetown University (LLM)
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Daren Tang Heng Shim (Chinese: 邓鸿森; born 1972) is the fifth and current Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). He is also Secretary-General of the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV). Tang previously headed the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) and was a trade lawyer for the government of Singapore.