Ana Paula Spencer has been nominated for the presidency of Cape
Verde's IGQPI - Quality Management and Intellectual Property
Office, replacing the former president, engineer Abraão
Lopes.
The engineer Joana Flor will assume the role of Executive
Administrator, thus assisting the new president to the Board of
Direction of the IGQPI. Created in 2010, the IGQPI integrates both,
the SNQC - National Quality System of Cape Verde and the SNPI -
National System of Protection of Intellectual Property.
Since its establishment, IGQPI plays an important role in the
country's economic development, by introducing practices and
procedures that ensure the protection of the Intellectual Property
interests of the national and international companies that have
business in the archipelago.