It has been decided the Australian Francis Gurry is to be the next Director General of Wipo when Kamil Idris steps down. The vote was a close one though and Gurry only won by a margin of 1 vote!!! Was that the Danish vote?? Gurry battled with Garaca Aranha for the top spot.
Gurry is presently a deputy director general at the agency so he knows his way around. So the vote has resulted in the election of a well known candidate who represents the industrialized nations at the expence of a candidate more focused on the development agenda in the less developed world. Good or bad we will see, I think its a good choice.
Congratulations are in order.