Gergana Dimitrova has more than 10 years of experience in intellectual property (IP) law. She started her career in Elzaburu – at the time the biggest, oldest and most respected IP law firm in Spain, where she represented multinational and Fortune 500 companies. Other than her legal work, Gergana also dealt with business development and had a key role in expanding Elzaburu’s market to China and setting up their office in Beijing. Gergana later on worked for two of the most important international organisations in the world of IP – the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). In the former she was invited to act as a legal business analyst for European Cooperation Projects, and directed two Convergence Projects (CP8 and CP9). At WIPO, she dealt with alternative dispute resolution in the field of domain names and supervised a big team of Legal Case Managers.

Gergana is trained in Common law (England and Wales), Spanish law and European Union law and was the youngest ever student to participate in the LLM in Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law at the University of Alicante, Spain (Magister Lucentinus) at only 21 years of age. She further holds a post-graduate diploma in legal practice from the BPP University of London. She speaks English, Spanish, Chinese, Bulgarian, (some) French, and is a frequent lecturer at different IP schools, programs and conferences.