Mariana Karepova

Mariana Karepova (* 1969) has been President of the Austrian Patent Office since November 1, 2015, as the first woman in this position .

Life

Karepova studied Slavic Studies and Literature at the Moscow State Pedagogical University and from 1990 at the University of Vienna Economics with a focus on Austrian and European economic and innovation policy. After graduating from university, she completed postgraduate courses at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the London School of Economics and Political Science .

She began her professional career in 1997 in the economic sector of the Chamber of Labor and moved to Brussels in 2000 in order to work at the EU Commission in addition to working in the European Parliament in negotiations on the eastward expansion of the EU by coordinating the negotiations with the candidate countries in the field of financial control.

Between 2003 and 2011 Karepova was initially at the Research Promotion Fund (FFF) as a commercial project appraiser and then at the Research Promotion Agency (FFG) in the strategy department on the development of new funding programs such as B. the innovation check, the evaluations of the funding measures and internationalization involved.

From 2011 to 2015 she was in the cabinet of Doris Bures and Alois Stöger in the Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology (bmvit), responsible for the agendas of research, technology, intellectual property, industry and economic policy as well as for the patent office.

On November 1, 2015, she was appointed President of the Austrian Patent Office by Federal Minister Alois Stöger . In doing so, she took over the agendas of Christian Weissenburger , the head of the presidential section in the Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology , who led the patent office on an interim basis from April 2015 after the term of office of Friedrich Rödler , who had been his subordinate until then, had expired .

Almost at the same time, on October 1, 2015, Karepova assumed the position of deputy chairman of the association “Industry 4.0 Austria - the platform for intelligent production”, whose aim is to make optimal use of future developments and innovations in industrial production for the circles involved Founding members: Federation of Industry , Chamber for Workers and Employees , PRO-GE trade union , trade association for machines, metal goods and foundry industry and trade association for the electrical and electronics industry ).

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• About us. Head: Mag. Mariana Karepova. In: Website of the ÖPA. Retrieved March 15, 2017 . 
• Stöger appoints new President of the Patent Office - press release OTS0172, September 22, 2015. Accessed on September 24, 2015 . 
• Mariana Karepova: First woman in the executive chair of the Patent Office - HEAD OF THE DAY, November 1, 2015. Accessed November 2, 2015 . 
• Stöger: New management for the “Industry 4.0 Austria” platform - press release OTS0056 from October 16, 2015. Accessed on November 8, 2015 .