In July 2025, Tanuja Garde assumed the role of Director of the Intellectual Property, Government Procurement and Competition Division at the World Trade Organization (WTO).
She holds a bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from Duke University and a Juris Doctor from the Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. Before joining the WTO, Garde was Vice President of IP and Information Governance at Boeing (2022–2025) and an advisor to the Industry Trade Advisory Committee on Intellectual Property Rights of the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (2019–2025).
According to the WTO website, the division is “responsible for the WTO’s work in trade-related intellectual property rights (TRIPS), government procurement and competition policy,” and “also maintains and develops lines of communication with other intergovernmental organizations, non-governmental organizations, intellectual property practitioners and the academic community.”
Garde succeeds Antony Taubman, who directed the WTO division from 2009 to 2024. Before that, Taubman was Director of Global Intellectual Property Issues at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) (2002–2009).
