Frederick Mostert

Education

Columbia Law School.

Career

Mostert served as Chief Intellectual Property Counsel and Chief Legal Counsel of luxury group Richemont, which includes Cartier, Van Cleef and Arpels, and Alfred Dunhill. He is currently a Research Fellow at Street Peter"s College, Oxford, a Visiting Professor of University College London, and a Research Fellow at Peking University. Mostert has served on Compagnie Financiere Richemont Société Anonyme’s Board, as well as the boards of Net-a-Porter, The International Trademark Association and others

At present he serves on the Board of The Walpole Group, The Royal Academy of Culinary Arts, and the Steering Committee of the Lawyers Group at Classics for All.

He holds a master"s degree from Columbia University School of Law in New York City and a doctorate from the University of Johannesburg. He has practised corporate law at Shearman and Sterling and international intellectual property law at Fross, Zelnick, Lehrman & Zissu in New New York

Mostert has served on Compagnie Financiere Richemont Société Anonyme’s Board, as well as the boards of Net-a-Porter, The International Trademark Association and others At present he serves on the Board of The Walpole Group, the Royal Academy of Culinary Arts and the Steering Committee of the Lawyers Group at Classics for All.

In addition, he has served on advisory boards including the Art and Science Foundation (New York) and the Industry Advisory Commission of the World Intellectual Property Organization (United Nations Agency, Geneva).

He currently serves on the Advisory Board of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (Brussels), the McCarthy Institute for Intellectual Property (San Francisco) and Freedom Under Law – a non-for-profit with a civil liberties-focus (Cape Town). At present he also serves on the Advisory Panel of the Intellectual Property Magazine and has served on the editorial board of The Trademark Reporter and the Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice, published by Oxford University Press. Some of Mostert"s most notable pro bono legal assistance has been provided to President Nelson Mandela (South Africa), the Shaolin Monks (China) and the Confucius Foundation – a children"s charity (Hong Kong).

Achievements

• He was awarded a Life Achievement Award by the Global Legal Post, the Paul A. Welter Award for Excellence in Trademarks and the World Leaders Intellectual Property Award for the Best Intellectual Property Achievement undertaken on a Pro-Bono Basis and Best Achievement in Intellectual Property Management. He was inducted into the Intellectual Property Hall of Fame in 2015, which honours those who have helped to establish intellectual property as one of the key business assets of the 21st century.

Membership

He is a member of the New York Bar and a solicitor of England and Wales.