Ms Eliza STEFANIW

Eliza Stefaniw, JD, RTTP, SIMI Mediator, develops intellectual property (IP), from strategy to operations and from IP protection to IP licensing. In addition, she focuses on capacity building within the innovation ecosystem of KMUTT and Thailand, from teaching patent and technology transfer skills to mentoring students and early stage start-up companies. She has over 20 years of experience in evaluating, protecting and using intellectual property, as a patent examiner, patent agent, intellectual property attorney and advisor in the US and Thailand. Eliza strives to maximize innovation impact by listening to inventors and clients and crafting tailored strategic solutions. Before moving to Thailand, she was an associate in the Silicon Valley office of Morgan, Lewis, and Bockius. Eliza became a registered US patent agent in 2001 and obtained her JD from Georgetown University Law Center in 2003. She holds a masters in physics from the University of Rochester, where she was an Office of Naval Research Graduate Fellow. She received a bachelors in physics and Russian with a concentration in international economic relations from Bryn Mawr College.