Francis Gerard Gurry AO (born 17 May 1951)[1][2] is an Australian lawyer who served as the fourth director general of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) from 2008 to 2020.

[3] Gurry graduated in 1974 from the University of Melbourne where he was resident at Ormond College with a Bachelor of Laws and was admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria, Australia in 1975.

[5] From 1976 to 1979, Gurry was a research student at the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, from which he was awarded a PhD[5] in 1980 for his thesis dealing with breach of confidence.

[2] Francis Gurry joined the World Intellectual Property Organization in 1985[7] as a consultant and senior program officer in the Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific.

[2] As Assistant Director General (from 1999-2003) and Deputy Director General (from 2003-2008), he was in charge of a variety of areas including the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), patent law and policy, the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center (which he helped establish[8]), traditional knowledge, traditional cultural expressions and genetic resources, and life sciences.