Adv Rory Voller is the Cabinet appointed Commissioner of the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC) of South Africa. The CIPC is the Registrar and regulator of Company and Intellectual Property legislation. He was a member of the legislative drafting team for both the New South African Companies Act and the Regulations, the Companies Amendment Act, the Intellectual Property Amendment Act on Traditional Knowledge, the Copyright and Performers Protection Amendment Acts . He is currently involved in the implementation of the IP Policy of South Africa in the areas of accession to the Madrid Protocol as well as the Substantive Search and Examination of Patents. Adv Voller holds a BA (Law), LLB, LLM (Commercial Law Masters - Specialisation), from the University of Kwazulu – Natal as well the University of South Africa and is an admitted Attorney and Advocate of the High Court.He is a panel member on the Take-Over Regulation Panel (TRP) on Mergers and Acquisitions, a board member on the Anti- Money Laundering council, a member of the Financial Reporting Standards Council and the Ministerial Specialist Committee member of the Company law and Intellectual Property law committees. He is also appointed to the King Committee on Corporate Governance. He served as an Executive Committee Member of the Corporate Registers Forum, a body of Global Company Registrars. As Head of the Intellectual Property Office of South Africa, Adv Voller also sits on the BRICS Heads of IP offices Committee made up of Brazil, Russia, India and China and currently chairs the Committee.He has presented and represented the CIPC at numerous National and International conferences including Singapore, Brazil, Romania, Malaysia, China, Austria, Germany, Japan etc.