General Manager NIPO

Erum Zaidi has been part of NUST Intellectual Property Office for the past 12 years and has proven herself as a professional legal advisor on subject matters. Originally having an external degree from University College London (UCL) in Law, she has kept herself abreast of legal problems in business. During her professional tenure, she has further refined her skillset through completing a diverse set of trainings. Sponsored by WIPO, she completed patent drafting courses at Singapore and US. Furthermore, she went to Korea on an Institutional Intellectual Property training. On a world bank sponsored training program, she completed three courses from Brazilian Associations covering Capacity Building for Businesses, Access of Finance for SMEs and Technology Commercialisation topics. Besides this, she had a three weeks of training on CLDP on University and Technology Based Economic Development.

Currently she is holding the General Manager’s Office and assists NUST researchers in protecting their intellectual work.