Axel Ferrazzini

Birthplace: France
Managing Director, 4iP Council

“By contributing to educating as many people as possible on the benefits of intellectual property rights, we have the potential to unleash innovation, boost inventorship and empower inventors and innovators.” 

Born in 1978 in France, Axel Ferrazzini initially trained as an engineer in computer science and then specialised in deep-tech technology strategy. He is listed as an inventor on 20 patents and has contributed to standards development organisations for more than 20 years. Axel has served as an elected member of the ETSI Board since 2014, of the Global Intellectual Property Alliance Board since 2022 and is ranked in the IAM Strategy 300: The World’s Leading IP Strategists.  

He currently leads 4iP Council, a research organisation promoting the role of intellectual property in European innovation, and heads the programme for the quantum technologies major at a leading engineering computer science school. 

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