Mr Stephen Adams, Magister Ltd, UK

Stephen Adams is the Managing Director of Magister Ltd., a consultancy specialising in patents information which was founded in 1997. After training as a chemist at the University of Bristol, he gained an M.Sc. in Information Science from City University, London in 1982 and subsequently worked in a variety of government, private research and industrial information departments, specialising in patent information since 1988.

He is a Chartered Member of both the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP). His professional commitments include the UK Patent and Trade Mark Group (PATMG), at various times being Secretary, Chair, and Newsletter Editor, a former Director-at-Large of PIUG Inc., the International Society for Patent Information, and a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for Elsevier’s journal “World Patent Information”.