FERDINAND M. NEGRE received his Juris Doctor degree from the Ateneo de Manila University School of Law in 1991. In 1993, he obtained a post-graduate degree of Master of Intellectual Property at Franklin Pierce Law Center in New Hampshire, USA. In 2004-2005, he attended a Post-Graduate Scholarship Program on Intellectual Property at the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center in Munich, Germany and at the Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute in London, UK.

Mr. Negre teaches Trademark Law & The Internet at the Ateneo de Manila University School of Law. He has been lecturing on intellectual property subjects in different universities, government agencies and private organizations. He also lectures in workshops for the Mandatory Continuing Legal Education required by the Supreme Court for lawyers.

He is a founding partner of Bengzon Negre Untalan (BNU) Intellectual Property Attorneys based in Makati, Philippines. BNU is the only law office in the Philippines focused exclusively on intellectual property law practice.

Mr. Negre is a member of the American Bar Association, the Integrated Bar of the Philippines, the Philippine Bar Association, and the Intellectual Property Association of the Philippines. He is a member of the International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property. He is Director of the Licensing Executives Society of the Philippines and Corporate Secretary of the Intellectual Property Foundation. He is Assistant Corporate Secretary and Co-Chairman of the Legal Working Committee of the Philippine Franchise Association, and the Legal Counsel and Corporate Secretary of the Philippine Retailers Association.

He worked with the Bureau of Patents, Trademarks & Technology Transfer (now the Intellectual Property Office) for five years, first as a Trademark Examiner and then as a Hearing Officer. He also worked as a Hearing Officer at the Bureau of Trade Regulation and Consumer Protection of the Department of Trade and Industry.

As a Certified Public Accountant, he worked as an Auditor at SGV & Co. (Arthur Andersen) before taking up legal studies.