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These include managing the stress on the international patent and copyright systems produced by rapid technological change, by globalization and increased demand; reducing the knowledge gap between developed and developing countries; and ensuring that the intellectual property (IP) system serves its fundamental purpose of encouraging creativity and innovation in all countries.</p> <p>To equip WIPO to meet these evolving challenges, Francis Gurry has led a comprehensive <a href="/web/20180718214904/http://www.wipo.int/about-wipo/en/strategic_realignment/">program of organizational change</a>, realigning WIPO’s programs, resources and structures with re-defined <a href="/web/20180718214904/http://www.wipo.int/about-wipo/en/goals.html">strategic goals</a>.</p> <ul class="dot__list"> <li><a href="/web/20180718214904/http://www.wipo.int/about-wipo/en/dgo/cv/" target="_self">Francis Gurry's biography</a> | <a href="/web/20180718214904/http://www.wipo.int/about-wipo/en/dgo/cv/gurry_cv.html" 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