On November 11^th, RUC Executive Vice President WANG Liming received the Executive President of the World Intellectual Property Organization Academy, Mr. Sherif Saadallah. The two parties met to advance cooperation between WIPO Academy and the Intellectual Property Academy of Renmin University of China. Sherif Saadallah introduced the general situation of WIPO Academy, WIPO’s unit for IP education, which offers advanced training for government officials as well as IP professionals. The academy’s cooperation with universities around the world includes tasks such as developing courses for government employees and judges, organizing forums and seminars on IP, and designing distance learning programs. Mr. Saadallah hopes to deepen ties between WIPO Academy and Renmin University’s Intellectual Property Academy. This collaboration is further evidence of the RUC IP Academy’s leading role in IP research nationwide. RUC Executive Vice President WANG Liming expressed equal enthusiasm about furthering collaboration and exchange between the two sides, noting that Renmin University was the first among Chinese higher education institutions to set up an IP research academy. Since its establishment, the academy has kept close ties with WIPO, while a number of RUC Law School professors have made influential contributions toward developing IP law. In 2010, RUC awarded an honorary doctorate to Francis Gurry, Director General of WIPO since 2008. A number of students have been sent to conduct research at WIPO, and RUC hopes to work more closely with the organization in the future, be it in professional training, offering student internships, faculty exchanges, or organizing academic forums on intellectual property rights.  Professor LIU Chuntian, Director of RUC’s IP Academy and Vice Director of the International Office, Professor LÜ Jie, also attended the meeting.