Paolo Lanteri is a lawyer, specialized in IP law, and a member of both the Spanish and the Italian Bar Association. Working as Legal Counsellor in the Copyright Law Division of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), he is part of the restricted team of lawyers dealing with all the copyright substantive maters within the Organization. His responsibilities range from legislative and policy advice to Member States to managing several projects in areas at the intersection between copyright law and new technologies, such as music streaming market, AI, Open Science, UGC and emerging licensing schemes. He is also member of the Secretariat of the Standing Commitee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR), leading the work on copyright in the digital environment, currently focusing on the digital music market. He was directly involved in all substantial and procedural maters leading to the adoption of the Beijing Treaty on Audiovisual Performances (2012) and the Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons who are Blind, Visually Impaired, or otherwise Print Disabled (2013).

Before joining WIPO in 2007, Paolo practiced in the IP department of the law firm Uría Menéndez Abogados LLP in Madrid (Spain), and worked in the legal department of the Spanish collecting society, Sociedad General de Autores y Editores (SGAE).

An Italian National, he speaks English, French, Italian and Spanish. He holds an Italian and a Spanish LL.B. and an LL.M. from the Autonomous University of Madrid.