Rory Voller

Rory Voller is the Cabinet appointed Commissioner of the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC) of South Africa. The CIPC is the Registrar and Regulator of Company and Intellectual property legislation. Rory is a member of the legislative drafting team for both the New South African Companies Act and the Regulations, the Companies Amendment Act as well as the Intellectual Property Amendment Act on Traditional Knowledge. A lawyer by trade studying at both the University of Kwazulu-Natal and the university of South Africa, Rory is an admitted Advocate of the High Court, Trasvaal Provincial Division and previously practised as an attorney.

Rory is a member on the Take-Over Regulation Panel (TRP) on Mergers and Acquisitions, a board member on the Anti- Money Laundering council, a member of the Financial Reporting Standards Council and the Ministerial Specialist Committee member of the Company law and Intellectual Property law committees and an Executive Committee Member of the Corporate Registers Forum (CRF). He is also appointed to the King Committee on Corporate Governance. He is the country lead and previous Chairman of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) Heads of Intellectual Property Offices group.