Alex Weir > Biography

I was born in the UK and graduated with a Politics BA from Hull University. I then joined the Metropolitan Police and enjoyed ten years serving in London, working primarily in central London, first as a Home Beat Officer and then running a Divisional Intelligence and Information Unit (DIIU) where I was responsible for Criminal Intelligence Analysis using the Anacapa system. I then moved to Vienna where I worked for ORF (Blue Danube Radio) and ITN (Channel Four Daily) as a News Editor/Broadcaster/Stringer covering first the collapse of the Berlin Wall and then the conflicts in Slovenia, Croatia and BiH, resulting from the breakup of the former Yugoslavia. I was then offered the chance to work in the Gulf and moved to Bahrain, where I worked for the Ministry of Information and Dow Jones Telerate to establish the annual Gulf Economic Forum Conference and Seminars. In 1998 I returned to Europe to work for the European Commission DG Enterprise to develop a pilot project for the support of Intellectual and Industrial Property Rights targeted at the EU Research Community & SME's. This project was the IPR-Helpdesk and since 2004 I have managed a number of projects broadly related to Technology Transfer & Intellectual and Industrial Property Rights issues for the EC, WIPO, USPTO, SIPO and others. I have worked as a Consultant dealing with concept develoment and proposal writing, Knowledge Management issues, ISO 9001 Quality Assurance issues, IIP Asset Management support, IIP Training & Enforcement issues. Recent projects have been concluded in China, South Africa, Argentina, Russia and the CIS, the EU and the Phillipines.

Specialties
Concept development and proposal writing, Knowledge Management, Project Management, ISO 9001 Quality Assurance, IIP Asset Management, IIP Training & Enforcement issues, Analysis using the Anacapa system.