Georg Hendrik Christiaan Bodenhausen (11 July 1905, Utrecht â 1 October 1997, Lausanne) was a Dutch civil servant. He was director of the United International Bureaux for the Protection of Intellectual Property (BIRPI) from 1963 to 1970, and the first director-general of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) from 1970 to 1973. From 1946 to 1963, he was a law professor at Utrecht University.