Shira Perlmutter

Made a lasting impact on IP policy during her long career.

Director of the US Copyright Office and Register of Copyrights since 2020, Perlmutter previously served as Chief Policy Officer and Director for International Affairs at the US Patent and Trademark Office – a position she held from 2012 – and as Executive Vice President for Global Legal Policy at the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. Perlmutter also worked in-house at Time Warner, where she was Vice President and Associate General Counsel for Intellectual Property Policy. She is currently in her second stint at the Copyright Office, which she first joined as Associate Register for Policy and International Affairs in 1995. Prior to that, Perlmutter was a law professor at The Catholic University of America.