Andrew is a Professor at the Faculty of Law, Monash University, and a member of the Indicative List of Panelists to hear WTO disputes. He has demonstrated distinction in international economic law within the broader context of public international law. He is a strong and dynamic scholar with an international reputation for influential and high-impact research on some of the most pressing contemporary and global issues. He has previously practised law with Allens Arthur Robinson (now Allens Linklaters) and consults for States, international organisations and the private sector. Andrew has taught law in Australia, Canada, Singapore, and the US. He has received five major grants from the Australian Research Council (including a Future Fellowship), the National Health and Medical Research Council, and the Australian National Preventive Health Agency. Andrew has published over 170 academic books and journal articles. He is an Editor of Edward Elgar’s International Economic Law Series and an Editorial Board Member of the Journal of International Dispute Settlement. He has law degrees from Melbourne, Harvard and Cambridge.

Professor Picker is the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Business and Law, and prior to this the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts at the University of Wollongong. Previously, Professor Picker was the Dean of Law within the faculty and prior to that was at UNSW Law, serving in many capacities including as Associate Dean (International); Director (and founder) of the China International Business and Economic Law (CIBEL) Initiative; and Director of the IBEL Stream of the LLM.

Prior to joining UNSW, Professor Picker was the Daniel L. Brenner/UMKC Scholar & Professor of Law at the University of Missouri – Kansas City School of Law. Professor Picker entered academia in 2000, after practicing in the Washington, D.C., law firm Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering. Professor Picker’s practice included transnational & trade litigation, international transactions and international congressional policy work.

Professor Picker was a founder of the Society of International Economic Law (the SIEL), the only global academic organization for international economic law. Professor Picker served as Founding Executive Vice President of the organization from its founding in 2007 to 2014. During and even since that time, he has facilitated and lead the creation of numerous regional networks for the field, including the Asian IEL Network, RED Latin America, the African IEL Network, and most recently the South Asia IEL Network. Professor Picker has likewise served as a leader in his other research field of comparative law. In addition to being a co-author of one of the main textbooks for the field, he was responsible for the creation of the Younger Comparatists Committee (“YCC”) – now the primary global body working with new and young law comparatists. The YCC annual conference is the world’s preeminent conference for those scholars.

Professor Picker has also published widely in the areas of IEL, International Law, China and IEL, and Comparative Law. His numerous publications have appeared in leading publishers and journals around the world, including in the Yale Journal of International Law, many Oxford and Cambridge University Press books and so on. He has taught and presented his work on every inhabited continent.

Heng Wang is a Professor of Law and Lee Kong Chian Fellow at the Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University, where he also serves as Associate Dean (Faculty Matters & Research). He is concurrently an adjunct professor at the Faculty of Law & Justice, University of New South Wales (UNSW Law & Justice). Previously, he held the role of professor and founding co-director of the Herbert Smith Freehills China International Business and Economic Law (CIBEL) Centre at UNSW Law & Justice.

Heng is a recipient of several major grants and awards, and has been named as a top researcher in international law by The Australian newspaper. Recently he serves as a partner investigator and was formerly the first investigator on a major project focused on the future of regional economic governance, which is funded by the Australian Research Council.

Heng has advised or been a (keynote) speaker at events organised by esteemed organizations and institutions (e.g. the Asian Development Bank, APEC, the Korean Foreign Ministry, Bundesbank, CPMI/BIS, HCCH, ICC, ICSID, IMF, INTERPOL, MAS, UNDP, UNCITRAL, the World Bank, the WTO) and the private sector.

Heng has been a visiting professor at leading institutions, including the National University of Singapore. He is a member of the editorial boards of prestigious journals such as the Journal of International Economic Law and the Journal of World Investment & Trade. His notable fellowships include the Fernand Braudel Senior Fellowship (2019) and the Max Weber Fellowship (2010-2011) at the European University Institute, and he has conducted research at the WTO Secretariat.

Heng’s research evolves to explore the future of international economic relationships and legal developments, with particular attention to regional perspectives. His current investigations address governance issues related to digital transformation, sustainable development, and regionalism.

Professor Lisa Toohey is an academic at the Law School at the University of Newcastle, where she is also the Deputy Head / Director of Research. She is the holder of a Senior Fulbright Fellowship for 2020, sponsored by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. She is also a Visiting Professorial Fellow at the Faculty of Law at the University of New South Wales and has been a Senior IEL Fellow at the Institute of International Economic Law at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. Prior to academia, Lisa practised as a lawyer in Australia in litigation, dispute resolution and intellectual property. And worked as a foreign lawyer at Baker & McKenzie in Vietnam, advising on WTO law and general trade and investment matters. Professor Toohey’s areas of research expertise are in WTO Law and Dispute Resolution, and she has a particular interest in trade disputes in the Asian region. She has acted as a consultant on a variety of dispute resolution, trade, and international commercial law technical assistance projects funded by the Australian, US and Canadian governments in Asia and Central Asia. She has taught as a visiting professor at the Centre Franco-Vietnamien de Formation à la Gestion at the National Economics University in Hanoi, Vietnam, at Naresuan University in Phitsanulok, Thailand, and at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

Dr. Rajesh Sharma is currently teaching at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. Before coming to Australia, he was Assistant Professor at School of Law, City University of Hong Kong. Dr. Sharma has given training and taught courses on arbitration, mediation, negotiation, foreign investment arbitration, WTO Law, international trade, banking law, foreign investment in Hong Kong, Macao, India, Australia, China, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Papua New Guinea, Nepal and Africa (where he is associated with the African Centre for Legal Excellence in Uganda). He has served as the Legal Advisor to the Macau University of Science and Technology. He has advised transnational companies on trade and investment policy in China and has done training courses with and for the WTO and UNITAR. Dr. Sharma is the Finalists for the ADR Teacher Award 2019 in Australia.
Dr. Sharma is the first Indian to hold PhD in Law from China. He holds PhD from the Chinese University of Political Science and Law, Beijing, a Master of Business Law from Monash University, Australia, an M.Phil from City University of Hong Kong and the Bachelor of Laws from the University of Delhi. He has received training for arbitrators from the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Geneva; and International Chamber of Commerce and Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. Dr. Sharma has received training of a mediator for community conflict resolution by the Plowshares Institute, USA and the Accord Group of Australia. He has also obtained professional training in negotiation at Harvard Law School. He has received training for teachers of WTO organized by UNU-IAS.
Dr. Sharma has researched extensively on the arbitration laws of China and India and other Asian countries, Investment Arbitration, Dispute Settlement in FTAs, WTO related issues, investment law and mediation. He has publications in the areas of WTO law, international trade, arbitration and dispute resolution, commercial law, and banking law. He has published a book with Wolters Kluwer titled “Dispute Settlement Mechanism in the FTAs of Asia”.
Dr. Sharma has also conducted research and provided expert comments to UNCITRAL on mediation and conciliation. These works include conducting “An Evaluation of Mediation Law in Asia”, provided expert comments on “Draft Instrument on Enforcement of Settlement Agreement Across-boarder” and reported on “Possible Amendments in UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Conciliations”. Currently, Dr. Sharma is working on the preparation of commentary on the Singapore Convention.
At CityU, Dr. Sharma was the Director of Mooting and coach of VIS Arbitration Moot at CityU. The team coached by Dr. Sharma has won the VIS (East) and VIS (Vienna) Championship in 2012 and 2013 respectively. He also designed the International ADR Moot Competition which is unique in the world because it combines arbitration and mediation where a student also takes part in as a mediator. Since 2016, Dr. Sharma is serving as a member of the Steering Committee for the ICC-Asia-Pacific Mediation Competition in Melbourne, Australia. Dr. Sharma is the Director and a member of the Governing Board of Indian Institute of Arbitration and Mediation, India; Council Member and the Chairman of the Intellectual Property Dispute Group of the Hong Kong Centre of Arbitration, Associate Director of the Hong Kong WTO Research Institute, a member of Asian WTO Research Network; a panel arbitrator of Korean Commercial Arbitration Board (KCAB), an Arbitration Fellow at International Dispute Resolution and Risk Management Institute, a panel arbitrator at Indian Institutes of Arbitrators, a member and secretary of Hong Kong Basic Law Education Association, a member of the Centre for Global Studies and a Researcher at China-Latin America Legal Research Centre, Shanghai. Dr. Sharma is a Research Fellow of the International Academy of Belt and Road, a member of the Drafting Committee of the Dispute Resolution Rules for the Belt and Road, a member of the Working Group for the establishment of Asian Regional Mediation Organization (ARMO) and a member of the Drafting Committee for the Rules of Mediation for ARMO and a lead drafter of the Arbitration Rules of Asia Pacific Centre for Arbitration and Mediation (APCAM). Dr.Sharma is currently engaged as a member of the Rules Drafting Group of International Commercial Dispute Prevention And Settlement Organization (ICDPASO) in drafting Mediation Rules, Arbitration Rules, Investment Arbitration Rules and Appeal Rules.
He is a core member (representing Australia) on the Committee for the Establishment of the Centre of Excellence for Dispute Resolution for Indian Ocean Regional Association. Dr. Sharma has been appointed as the International Expert Mediator at the Hong Kong-Mainland Joint Mediation Centre and Japan International Mediation Centre-Kyoto. Dr. Sharma is an elected Associate Member of Academy of Comparative Law.

Professor, Dean, China Institute for WTO Studies, University of International Business and Economics. [EDUCATION]: Ph.D. in International Trade, University of Int’l Business and Economics, 2004 Master in International Trade, University of Int’l Business and Economics, 2001 Bachelor of Arts in Library Science, Peking University, 1996 [WORK EXPERIENCE]: Professor and Dean, China Institute for WTO Studies, University of international Business and Economics, 2015-present Professor and Deputy Dean, China Institute for WTO Studies, University of international Business and Economics, 2011-2014 Associate Professor, Associate Director, China Institute for WTO Studies, University of International Business and Economics, 2008-2011 Assistant Professor, University of Int’l Business and Economics, 2003-2007 [INTERNATIONAL VISITING RESEARCHES]: Visiting Scholar, Middlebury Institute for International Studies, 2016.2 Visiting Fellow, German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), 2014.7-9 Visiting Scholar, WTO Secretariat, 2011.6-9 Visiting Scholar, Indiana University, 2011.4 Visiting Fellow, Korea Institute for International Economic Policy, 2009.7-8 Visiting Scholar, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, 2006.4-2007.4 [EXPERTISES]: World Trade Organization; U.S. Trade Policy and Sino-U.S. Trade Relations; Chinese Economy and Foreign Trade Policy; Internationalization of Government Procurement

GU Minkang is the Associate Co-Director of Academy for Applied Policy Studies and Education Futures and the Director of National Security and Legal Education Research Centre, the Education University of Hong Kong. He was formerly the Dean and Professor of Credit Risk Management School, Xiangtan University, Hunan, China. He was also the Professor and Associate Dean of School of Law, City University of Hong Kong. He graduated from the East China University for Political Science and Law (Shanghai, PRC) and earned his LL.B in 1984 and Master of Law in 1987. He worked for the same university as a Lecturer in Law for 5 years. During that time, he visited the Rule University of Bochum (Germany) as a Visiting Scholar for a year. Subsequently in 1993, he went to the United States and successfully completed his legal study in the Willamette University College of Law and earned Doctor of Jurisprudence in 1996. When he was working at City University of Hong Kong, he went to France to continue his legal study and earned a degree in Master of European Business Law.

GU Minkang was the first “Shanghai Oriental Scholar Chair Professor” of the East China University for Political Science and Law. He is a visiting professor of many other law schools in Mainland China. He serves important positions in various institutions such as Vice Director of the Hong Kong WTO Research Institute, Vice Chairman of Hong Kong Basic Law Education Association, and Vice Chairman of Hong Kong Mainland Overseas Scholars. He is Arbitrator of various institutions including China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission and Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration (Shenzhen Arbitration Commission).

He has wide research interests such as Comparative Company Law, Comparative Competition Law, Social Credit Law and Criminal Justice. Some of his published books include: “WTO Antidumping Law” (Beijing University Press, 2005); “Understanding Chinese Company Law” (Hong Kong University Press, 2016); “Police’s Arrest and Seizure: American Experiences” (the Law Press, Beijing, 2010); “Tort Law in China” (co-authored, Sweet & Maxwell, 2013); “Antitrust Law and Practice in China and Hong Kong (Wolters Kluwer, 2016).

Professor WANG Guiguo is President of Zhejiang University Academy of International Strategy and Law and University Professor of Law, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China; President of International Academy of the Belt and Road (Hong Kong); Member of the International Commercial Expert Committee of the People’s Supreme Court of China; and Eason-Weinmann Chair of International and Comparative Law, School of Law, Tulane University, New Orleans, USA.
Professor WANG, holder of the JSD degree from Yale Law School and LL.M. degree from Columbia Law School, served as a special lecturer at The Hague Academy of International Law and gave a series of lectures on Radiating Impact of WTO on Its Members’ Legal System: The Chinese Perspective.
Professor WANG has published more than 20 books and more than 100 academic articles in both Chinese and English including The Law of WTO, International Monetary and Financial Law, International Investment Law, Essentials of the Laws of the Belt and Road Countries series. Many of his articles were published in prestigious journals including China Legal Science, American Journal of International Law, Yale Journal of International Law and Chinese Journal of International Law.

Chin Leng Lim is the Choh-Ming Li Professor of Law at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, practises from Keating Chambers, London, is a Visiting Professor at King’s College, London and Honorary Senior Fellow of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law. He has been a tenured full professor and senior administrator at both of Hong Kong’s traditional universities since 2007 and served on a HKSAR trade and industry committee advising the Commerce Secretary. Tenured previously at Singapore’s NUS, he returned briefly as the inaugural Lionel Astor Sheridan Visiting Professor. Lim was a resident visiting scholar at WTO headquarters. His early career involved commercial and investment treaty negotiations, serving as a UN lawyer in Geneva administering war compensation and as liaison with the Government of Iraq, lecturing at Queen Mary, London and before that at Aberystwyth.
Recent books include the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to International Arbitration, with a Foreword by Lord Neuberger; Lim, Ho & Paparinskis on International Investment Law and Arbitration (Cambridge, 2018) with a Foreword by Gaillard; Alternative Visions of the International Law on Foreign Investment (Cambridge, 2016), and The Trans-Pacific Partnership (Cambridge, 2012) with Elms and Low. His work is cited by appellate courts, bar associations, in a legislative inquiry, in a Royal Commission Report and by the International Law Commission.

Bryan Mercurio is the Simon F.S. Li Professor of Law at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). Specializing in international economic law, Professor Mercurio is a leading expert in the intersection between trade law and intellectual property rights. His work also frequently deals with free trade agreements, trade in services, dispute settlement and increasingly international investment law. Professor Mercurio is co-author of one of the most widely used case books on WTO law (Hart Publishing, 2018, 3rd ed) and co-editor of the leading collection on bilateral and regional trade agreements (Cambridge University Press, 2nd ed, 2016). His most recent book explores the international and domestic framework for pharmaceutical patent law and policy (Cambridge University Press, 2018).

Prior to relocating to Hong Kong in 2007, Professor Mercurio taught in the faculty of law at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). He has held visiting positions at several institutions in Asia, Europe and North America and is currently a Senior Fellow at the Melbourne Law School. Prior to academia, Professor Mercurio worked in government as a trade policy officer, served as a trade negotiator and practiced international trade, intellectual property and commercial law in the United States and Australia. He remains a frequent consultant and advisor to governments, industry associations and law firms on a wide range of trade and investment matters.

An active participant in a number of associations, he was a member of the founding committee and served on the inaugural Executive Board of the Society of International Economic Law (SIEL), a founding member of the SIEL Intellectual Property Law Network and a founding member of the Asian International Economic Law Network. In 2010 he authored the case for the ELSA WTO Moot Court Competition and from 2013-2016 served as a member of the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development/World Economic Forum E15 Expert Working Group on Trade and Innovation.

Dr. Julien Chaisse is Professor at the City University of Hong Kong, School of Law. He is an award-winning scholar of international law with a focus on the regulation and development of economic globalization. He has published numerous well-regarded and widely cited books and articles, and his scholarship has been cited by international courts/tribunals, as well as U.S. Courts. Dr. Chaisse’s teaching and research include international trade/investment law, contract law, international arbitration, and Internet law. Dr. Chaisse served as a senior fellow at the World Trade Institute (Switzerland), lecturer at elite school Sciences Po Aix (France), and as a diplomat for the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Embassy of France in India).
As a leading scholar in the field of international economic law, Dr. Chaisse sits on the editorial board of several high-impact international journals. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Asia Pacific Law Review. Dr. Chaisse is frequently invited to lecture at many academic institutions and leading universities around the world, including Columbia University, University of Aix-Marseille and Paris Institute of Political Studies, University of Oxford, Melbourne University and Sydney University, Tokyo University, National University of Malaysia, and Tsinghua University.
Dr. Chaisse is also an experienced arbitrator and a sought-after consultant/expert to international organizations, governments, law firms, and private investors. He has advised international organizations and governments on private and public international law issues (including WTO accession, international trade law, state and international organization immunities) and assisted with the drafting of legislation in Austria, Azerbaijan, Canada, Côte d’Ivoire, France, Pakistan, and Vietnam. He is also working as an expert for the European Commission and has been assisting in evaluating and monitoring projects such as Jean Monnet – Centres of Excellence, 7th Framework Programme, and Capacity Building in the field of Higher Education.
Dr. Chaisse is an active member of the World Economic Forum (“Tax and Globalization Working Group” and “Data Policy Platform”). Dr. Chaisse serves as Advisory Board member of the World Free Zone Convention (WFZC) and Asian Academy of International Law (AAIL). He is the co-founder of the Internet Intellectual Property Institute (IIPI), Director of the Dot Trademark Policy Committee (DTPC), and Member of the Hong Kong’s Government Board of Review (Inland Revenue Ordinance). Dr. Chaisse is also an advisor & partner to the United Nations ARTNET on FDI, and member of the Academic Forum on Investor-state Dispute Settlement.

Fernando Dias Simões is Associate Professor at Peking University School of Transnational Law. He previously held positions at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the University of Macau, and Portuguese universities. His research interests include International Investment Law, Investment Arbitration, and Energy Law, with sporadic incursions into other topics of International Law. In the last decade, Dr. Dias Simões carried out research stays at academic institutions in the United States, Canada, China, Australia, Luxembourg, and Sweden; received research grants in Hong Kong, Macau, and Spain; and coordinated research projects funded by the European Commission.

Prof. R. Rajesh Babu is currently Professor of Law at IIM Calcutta, India. He has more than two decades of experience in academia, inter-governmental organization and as a practicing lawyer. His research centres broadly on international economic law (trade and investment), adjudication and settlement of disputes in the national and international context, and liability of corporations for wrongful conduct. Prof. Rajesh Babu holds M.Phil. and Ph.D. (International Law) from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi and has been a DAAD Visiting Scholar at the Hamburg University, Germany, and Global Scholar-in-Residence at the Graduate Institute, Geneva, and a Fellow at Hague Academy of International Law. He currently serves as the State Volume Editor (India) for the Encyclopaedia of Public International Law in Asia (Brill/Nijhoff: Netherlands 2020).

R.V. Anuradha is Partner at Clarus Law Associates, New Delhi, and heads her Firm’s practice in International Trade and Investment Law and Policy. She also has an active practice in Environmental regulation, including in the areas of carbon financing and renewable energy.
Anuradha advises companies, industry associations and the Government of India on issues arising under the WTO Agreements, Free Trade Agreements, and Bilateral lnvestment Protection Agreements, including disputes arising under such agreements. She also undertakes policy analysis ohn trade and investment related issues for the Commonwealth Secretariat, Centre for WTO Studies- IIFT, the Indian Council for International Economic Relations (ICRIER) and export promotion associations in India.
Anuradha is a member of the Trade Policy Committee of the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII). She also teaches at various training sessions and capacity building programs on trade law and policy for government officials organized by the Centre for WTO Studies-IIFT, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry and the Ministry of External Affairs, and at the Joint Academy on international trade law and policy conducted by the World Trade Institute, Berne, in collaboration with the Centre for WTO Studies. She also writes extensively on trade and investment related issues.

Debashis Chakraborty is currently a Professor of Economics at the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), Kolkata, a leading Research Institute and Deemed to be University in India. Before joining IIFT, he was a Research Associate at Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Studies (RGICS), New Delhi, a policy think tank. Debashis has studied at Calcutta University, Kolkata and Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. He received his Doctorate Degree from JNU for his research on the implications of environmental challenges on India’s trade. The current research interests of Debashis include international trade policy and WTO negotiations, environmental sustainability and debates pertaining to Indian economic development. He has been invited for presenting his research in various academic and policy forums in India and abroad. Debashis has published more than sixty research articles in reputed refereed journals. He also has twelve volumes (including both co-authored and co-edited ones) to his credit. For the last two years, Debashis is Co-Editor of Foreign Trade Review (Sage), which is a comprehensive forum for disseminating theoretical and empirical research on international trade and investment related issues. He is also a reviewer of several renowned international journals in the area of international trade, WTO negotiations and sustainable development policies. He has been part of several research project teams, including the ones commissioned by Ministry of Commerce, Government of India, Quality Council of India, International Co-Operative Alliance, Confederation of Indian Industries (CII), International Finance Corporation, World Bank, German Development Institute (DIE), EU-India Small Projects Facility Programme etc.

Shailja Singh is a lawyer and trade policy advisor with over a decade of experience in international economic law. She is Legal Consultant (Associate Professor) at the Centre for WTO Studies (Centre), Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi – a think tank established by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, India. Shailja has represented India in several WTO disputes, and is part of India’s negotiations teams at the WTO and FTAs. This includes the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (RCEP) negotiations from 2016-19, FTA negotiations with Chile, UAE, Australia and the UK (SPS/TBT/Digital Trade), as well as the fisheries subsidies negotiations at the WTO. She is also involved in various international as well as national capacity building programmes on WTO issues conducted by the Centre for WTO Studies where she participates as a resource person. Shailja completed her LL.B. from the W.B. National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata, India in 2009, and went on to receive an LL.M. from the University of Cambridge, UK in 2011. She is currently pursuing her PhD from the World Trade Institute at the University of Bern on the subject of WTO and the technical barriers to digital trade.

Joseph Wira Koesnaidi is a founding partner of JWK Law Office -a Jakarta-based boutique law firm specializing in International Trade Law. The Firm’s expertise focuses on trade remedies (anti-dumping and countervailing duties as well as safeguards) as well as WTO Dispute Settlement in addition to other market access barriers. The firm has successfully defended various clients producing and exporting various products in numerous trade-remedy cases in Indonesia, the United States, Brazil, Malaysia, Australia, India and other jurisdictions. The firm has represented the Government of Indonesia in various WTO Dispute Settlement cases the panel proceedings, Appellate Body proceedings until the enforcementproceedings. Joseph Wira Koesnaidi was graduated from University of Indonesia Faculty of Law (S.H.) and pursued his Master Degree (LL.M.) at University of Maastricht, the Netherlands. He was the first Indonesian lawyer to work in the WTO Secretariat Legal Affairs Division assisting panels in various WTO dispute settlement proceedings. Not only trusted by clients, Mr. Koesnaidi has also been appointed as a WTO legal expert in various Ministries in Indonesia, in multi-donors capacity building projects and as a visiting scholar and lecturer in universities in Indonesia and the Netherlands. Mr. Koesnaidi is also appointed in the ACWL’s Roster of External Counsel as well as nominated by the Government of Indonesia in the WTO’s Roster Panelist.

Michelle is a law lecturer at Universitas Pelita Harapan (UPH), director of the UPH Center for International Trade and Investment, and of counsel at FratiniVergano in Jakarta, Indonesia. Michelle completed her undergraduate legal studies in Indonesia at Trisakti University and an LLM at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. She was awarded a doctoral scholarship to pursue her PhD on WTO dispute settlement at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Following her PhD completion, she won a postdoctoral fellowship in the New Zealand Centre for International Economic Law (NZCIEL), where she continues to be an affiliated researcher. Following a nomination by Indonesian Government and an approval by the Word Trade Organization’s Dispute Settlement Body in June 2019, she has been a member of the Indicative List of Governmental and Non-Governmental Panelists to hear WTO disputes. Michelle has advised and provided research to international organizations, government and private agencies including the World Bank, New Zealand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Myanmar’s Ministry of Commerce, Singapore’s Ministry of Trade and Industry, the EU Delegation to Indonesia, and Indonesia’s Ministry of Trade and the Executive Office of the President on various areas such as trade in goods, intellectual property, agriculture, and transparency.

Yetty earned her Bachelor degree (Sarjana Hukum/SH) from Faculty of Law, UI, her Master of Legal Institution (ML.I) from School of Law, University of Wisconsin-Madison, the USA, and her Doctorate degree in Law (Dr) from UI. Her area of expertise is (international) trade/commercial law, corporate law, investment law, and arbitration.

Since 2011, she has been an Assistant of Special Staff in Law for the Vice President in which she participated as Indonesian delegates at UNCITRAL WG III and led the Indonesian BIT review process. She has become a resource person for government institutions on issues related to her expertise including on International Investment Agreements (IIAs).
Yetty plays an active role in research institutions as a member of Reviewer Board of Indonesian Law Review (ILRev) UI, a member of subject editors of the Asian Journal of Comparative Law (AsJCL) the NUS, and a certified international research reviewer (CIRR). She serves as an assessor for National Accreditation Body, the Ministry of Higher Education and for the ASEAN University Network – Quality Assurance. Yetty is also a member of the Indonesian Association of Economic Law Lecturers (Deputy Secretary); the Society of International Economic Law (SIEL); and Academic Forum on ISDS UNCITRAL WG III.

Mitsuo Matsushita is a professor emeritus of Tokyo University and a counsel to Nagashima, Ohno & Tsunematsu, a leading international law firm in Tokyo.

Having earned a Ph.D. degree from Tulane University (1962) and a D.Jur degree from Tokyo University (1968), he went on to be internationally acknowledged as a Japanese expert in the field of competition law and international economic law. In his academic career, he has held professorships in Japan at Sophia University, Tokyo University and Seikei University. He has been a visiting professor, among others, at Harvard Law School, Michigan Law School, Columbia Law School, Monash University (Australia), the University of British Columbia (Canada) and at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium. He has written many books and articles on various aspects of international trade and competition and investment law.

Mitsuo Matsushita is admitted to Tokyo Bar (Daiichi Tokyo Bengoshi Kai). In his public career, he served as one of the founding members of the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization from 1995 to 2000. He has been attached to the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Economics, Trade and Industry and the Ministry of Telecommunications and Posts of the Japanese Government as a member of various councils dealing with telecommunications, customs and tariffs, export and import transactions, competition policy and industrial property. In 2005, he was awarded Certificate of Merit from the American Society of International Law in recognition of the book The World Trade Organization: Law, Practice and Policy (The Oxford University Press, 2003, 1st Ed., 2006, 2nd Ed. and 2015 3rd Ed.) which he co-authored with Thomas Schoenbaum, Petros Mavroidis and Michael Hahn. In 2008, he was awarded Certificate of Accomplishment by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Japanese Government for his contribution to the international dispute settlement and, in 2013, was conferred Decoration of Honour by the Emperor of Japan for his professional and social accomplishments.

Mr. Takashi Iwamoto graduated from Keio University, Tokyo, Japan in 1966 receiving B.A (Economics). He has rich work experiences in private sectors, including Yawata Iron & Steel Ltd. (1966 – 1970) and Nippon Steel Corporation (1970 – 1999) with the major international experiences at Rome Office (1970 – 73) as Director and at London Office (1982 – 87) as Senior Manager. He served as Lecturer on Japanese management at Kioi Institute (1988 – 89); as Chairman & President for Nippon Steel Computer Plc., U.K. (1991 – 93); as General Manager with the Export Division (1993 – 1999); and as Leader of the Japanese project team for International Iron and Steel Institute (ULSAB: Ultra Light Steel Auto Body) (1996 – 98). From 1999 to 2013, he worked with the Fair Trade Center, Institute for International Trade and Investment as General Manager (October 1999 – June 2003); and Executive Director (July 2003 – June 2010); Chief Researcher (July 2010 to June 2013). He participated in many international conferences including the WTO Ministerial Conference in Cancun 2003 and Hong Kong 2005. He served as Secretary General for Asian WTO Research Network 2004 to 2013 and as Secretary General, for WTO 10th Anniversary Symposium in Tokyo 2005. He was Chief Organizer for WTO Training Courses by JICA 2001 to 2013 (JICA: Japan International Cooperation Agency).

Junji Nakagawa is Professor at the Faculty of Liberal Arts, Chuo Gakuin University. He is also an Attorney at Anderson, Mori & Tomotsune, LL.P. Born in Hiroshima in 1955, he earned his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in law from the University of Tokyo. Before joining Chuo Gakuin University in 2019, he was Professor (2000-2019) and Associate Professor (1995-2000) at the Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo, and an Associate Professor of Law at Tokyo Institute of Technology (1990-1995). He has also taught at University of Denver, El Colegio de México, University of Georgia, City University of Hong Kong, Tufts University and Shantou University, China. He is a Member of the Executive Council of the Society of International Economic Law (SIEL), and is a Chairman of the Asian International Economic Law Network (AIELN) Steering Committee. He has been a member of the advisory councils and study groups organized by the Ministry of Finance (MOF), Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA), and the Research Institute for Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI). His major publications include: RCEP Commentary (Japan Association, 2022)(in Japanese); A Post-WTO International Legal Order (Springer, 2020); The Appellate Body of the WTO and Its Reform (Springer, 2020); TPP Commentary (Japan Tariff Association, 2019)(in Japanese); Asian Perspectives on International Investment Law (Routledge, 2019); International Economic Law, 3rd edition (Yuhikaku, 2019)(in Japanese); Nationalization, Natural Resources and International Investment Law (Routledge, 2017); WTO: Beyond Trade Liberalization (Iwanami Shoten, 2013) (in Japanese); Transparency in International Trade and Investment Dispute Settlement (Routledge, 2013); International Economic Law, 2nd edition (Yuhikaku, 2012) (in Japanese); International Harmonization of Economic Regulation (Oxford University Press, 2011); Multilateralism and Regionalism in Global Economic Governance: Finance, Trade and Investment (Routledge, 2011); Anti-Dumping Laws and Practices of the New Users (Cameron May, 2007); Managing Development: Globalization, Economic Restructuring and Social Policy (Routledge, 2006); International Economic Law, 1st edition (Yuhikaku, 2003, Chinese translation from Peking University Press, 2007) (in Japanese); and Legal Process of Nationalization Conflicts in Natural Resources Sector (Kokusai Shoin, 1990) (in Japanese)

Tomohiko is Professor of international economic law & Director of the International Relations Office at Otaru University of Commerce. He has taught law at Jagiellonian University (Poland), National Chung Hsing University (Taiwan), and the Far Eastern Federal University (Russia), along with several universities in Japan. Tomohiko has received academic grants from a number of agencies including the Japan Science Promotion Society, Japan-US Education Commission (Fulbright grant), and the European Commission. Before joining the faculty of Otaru, he was a deputy director at the Multilateral Trade System Department of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan. He has law degrees from Kyoto University and the University of California at Berkeley.

Yuka Fukunaga is Professor at Waseda University, where she teaches public international law and international economic law. She is a winner of the Waseda Research Award in 2017. She is also an Executive Council Member of the Japan Chapter of the Asian Society of International Law (AsianSIL) and a Board Member of the Japan Association of International Economic Law.
Professor Fukunaga was an assistant legal counsel at the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) (2012-2013) and an intern at the Appellate Body Secretariat, World Trade Organization (WTO) (2002). She was also a government-appointed assistant to Mr. Shinya Murase, a Japanese member of the International Law Commission (ILC) during the ILC 68th session (2016).
Professor Fukunaga holds an LL.D. (2013) and an LL.M. (1999) from the Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, University of Tokyo, and an LL.M. (2000) from the School of Law, University of California, Berkeley.
Professor Fukunaga has published a number of articles and chapters in the field of international trade and investment law, including “Securing Compliance with International Economic Agreements and Dispute Settlement: The Role and Limits of the WTO Dispute Settlement and Investment Arbitration” (Yuhikaku, 2013) and “Introduction to WTO/FTA Law” (Horitsu Bunkasha, 2nd ed., 2020, co-authored).

Seung Wha Chang is currently Professor of Law at Seoul National University where he teaches International Trade Law and International Arbitration. He served on several WTO dispute settlement panels, including US — FSC, Canada — Aircraft Credits and Guarantees, and EC — Trademarks and Geographical Indications, as the Appellate Body Member from 2012 to 2016. He was also appointed as Chairman or Member of several arbitral tribunals dealing with commercial matters.
Prof. Chang holds LL.B. and LL.M. from Seoul National University (SNU) School of Law; and LL.M. as well as a Doctorate in International Trade Law (S.J.D.) from Harvard Law School. He began his professional academic career at the SNU School of Law in 1995, and was awarded professorial tenure in 2002. He has taught international trade law and, in particular WTO dispute settlement, at more than ten foreign law schools, including Harvard Law School, Yale Law School, Stanford Law School, New York University, Duke Law School, and Georgetown University. In 2007, Harvard Law School granted him an endowed visiting professorial chair title, Nomura Visiting Professor of International Financial Systems. In 2009, he was appointed by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) as a Member of the International Court of Arbitration.
In addition, he previously served as a Seoul District Court judge, handling many cases involving international trade disciplines. He also practiced as a foreign attorney at an international law firm in Washington D.C., handling international trade matters, including trade remedies and WTO-related disputes.
He has published many books and articles in the field of International Trade Law in internationally-recognized journals. In addition, he serves as an Editorial or Advisory Board Member of the Journal of International Economic Law (Oxford University Press) and the Journal of International Dispute Settlement (Oxford University Press).

Dukgeun AHN is Professor of International Trade Law and Policy/Director of Center for International Commerce and Strategy in Graduate School of International Studies (GSIS), Seoul National University (SNU). He is currently serving as Dean of International Affairs for SNU.
Professor Ahn has taught at various universities including Columbia University, Singapore National University, University of Barcelona in Spain, World Trade Institute in Switzerland as well as regularly at the Regional Trade Policy Course arranged by the World Trade Organization (WTO) for government officials. He is contributing to many academic journals, as editorial board member for Journal of International Economic Law (Oxford Univ. Press), Journal of World Trade (Kluwer Law International), and as Editor-in-chief for Korean Journal of International Economic Law (Korean Society of International Economic Law). Professor Ahn served, among others, as Commissioner of the Korea Trade Commission, Chair for CPTPP Forum, Chair for TBT Policy Forum, and a Member of National Economic Advisory Council, the constitutional body chaired by the President of Korea. He is also listed as a panelist candidate for the WTO dispute settlement as well as the Korea-U.S. FTA and Korea-EU FTA.
Professor Ahn holds both Ph. D. in Economics and J.D. (Member of New York Bar) from the University of Michigan.

Jaemin Lee is currently Professor of Law at School of Law, Seoul National University in Seoul, Korea. His major areas of teaching and research are public international law, international investment law and international trade law. He has published articles and book chapters on various topics of public international law, international investment law and international trade law. Upon graduation from College of Law, Seoul National University in 1992, he joined the Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a foreign service officer. His post in the ministry included deputy directorship of the Treaties Division and the North American Trade Division. Between 2000 and 2004, he also practiced law with Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP (Washington, D.C. office) as an associate attorney of the firm’s international trade group. During the period of 2004 to 2013 he taught international law and international economic law at School of Law, Hanyang University in Seoul, Korea.

Mr. M Supperamaniam joined the Malaysian Administrative and Diplomatic Service in 1970 and served the Ministry of International Trade and Industry for a period of 34 years in various capacities including Senior Trade Commissioner of Malaysia to Hong Kong and China, Director, Department of International Trade, Deputy Secretary-General (Trade) and Ambassador/Permanent Representative of Malaysia to the World Trade Organization. During the tenure of service he was mainly charged with responsibilities and functions relating to the development of national trade policy and export development strategy. He represented Malaysia at various bilateral, regional international conferences which included his participation in various senior official meetings as well as in Ministerial conferences of ASEAN, APEC, UNCTAD and UNESCAP. He was assigned a key role in representing Malaysia in various negotiations at GATT/WTO/UNCTAD. APEC ASEAN as well at the bilateral level During his tenure of service in Geneva he held various positions in the WTO including Chairman WTO Budget and Finance Committee, Chairman WTO Council for Goods and Chairman Informal Group of Developing Countries. Since his official retirement from Government he is now actively engaged as a resource person/consultant to many workshops, and conferences organized by UN Agencies, regional and international organizations and think tanks. Currently, he is a Distinguished Fellow of the Institute of Strategic and International Studies, Malaysia and Adjunct Professor at the International Islamic University Malaysia. He also serves as a member of the International Advisory Board & Fellow of the International Academy of the Belt & Road Initiative based in Hong Kong. He is also a Board Member of a couple of public listed companies in Malaysia.

Prof. Rokiah Alavi started her carrier as an assistant lecturer at the Department of Economics , IIUM in 1986. She received her Bachelor of Economics from University of Malaya. She obtained her Masters in Development Economics and her PhD from University of East Anglia, England. She has been actively involved in research, teaching and training on WTO and international trade issues. Her research interests are in the area of economics of intellectual property protection, services trade, competition policy and development economics. She was the Head of Department of Economics, IIUM in 2003 until 2006 and led the Globalization and WTO Unit since 2003.
She has been the trainer for the Regional Trade Policy Course organized by the WTO from 2004 to 2014 and was part of the teaching team for training programs organized by JICA, IIUM, University Malaya as well as the Malaysian National Institute of Public Administration. She has been awarded research grants from various international organizations such as World Bank, OECD, JIPO, ICTSD, SEATCA and UNCTAD and has published few books and many articles in international journals. Prof. Rokiah is a research associate at MIER, advisor for ERA Consumer and is actively involved in various NGOs and local community associations.

Haniff Ahamat who is from Malaysia, has been with UKM since June 2016. Prior to that, he had been an academic staff member at the Faculty of Law, the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) for 15 years. He holds an LLB (Hons) from IIUM, an LLM from UKM and a PhD from University of Essex, United Kingdom. He wrote his PhD thesis on the consumer perspectives of Malaysian and EC anti-dumping regimes. Haniff is a non-practising member of the Malaysian Bar. Haniff teaches public international law, competition law and law for SME exports at the undergraduate level. He also teaches Competition Law and International Economic Law at the masters level. Haniff has researched and published on public international law, law of WTO, competition law, SME law and law of economic regulation. Haniff is widely consulted by the public and private sectors on the practical application of Malaysian and international laws within his areas of expertise. Haniff can be contacted at haniff@ukm.edu.my or aniff74@gmail.com.

MEREDITH KOLSKY LEWIS is Professor of Law and Vice Dean for International and Graduate Programs at the University at Buffalo Law School, The State University of New York, where she also directs the Cross-Border Legal Studies programs. She is also Associate Professor at the Victoria University of Wellington Law School. She was a Visiting Professor of Law at Georgetown Law in 2010-11. Her research focuses on international economic law, with a particular emphasis on regional trade agreements and WTO dispute settlement. Meredith is a founding member of the Society of International Economic Law (SIEL) and served as SIEL’s Co-Executive Vice President for six years. She is one of New Zealand’s two representatives to the International Law Association’s International Trade Law Committee; a member of the Asian WTO Research Network; a board member of the Asian International Economic Law Network; previous co-chair of the ASIL Law in the Pacific Rim Region interest group; and co-founder and previous co-chair of the International Economic Law interest group of the Australia – New Zealand Society of International Law. Meredith has over 50 publications and is currently working on a monograph.

Mr. Ghaffar is a London barrister with offices in Geneva, as well as a member of the Punjab Bar and he spends naturally part of the year in Pakistan. He is Vice-President of the Pakistan Branch of the ILA and he has advised the Government of Pakistan on its FTA negotiations. His practice has had a distinct EU law focus, being an area in which he also publishes. He has for a number of years been a member of the Pakistan National Group of the International Chamber of Commerce, and in that capacity sits on its International Trade and Investment Committee. Additionally, he is on the Board of Governors of the Pakistan Centre for Law and Society (PCLS) and has assisted the PCLS with its work for the Trade Dispute Resolution Organization (TDRO) on drafting the Trade Dispute Resolution Bill (2017). He is recognized as having expertise in issues concerning the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).

In addition to the above, Mr Ghaffar ’s private practice as a barrister often touches on issues of international trade. In that regard Arshad has acted for and against various State-Owned Enterprises and Sovereign Wealth Funds, in particular in the Middle East and in Oman.

Margaret Liang is Associate Trainer for Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) since January 2015, Adjunct Senior Fellow of the Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University Singapore, and Senior Fellow of the MFA Diplomatic Academy. She is also Associate Trainer for the Civil Service College, Singapore. She was Consultant to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) for WTO/Trade Issues (2004- 2014); Adjunct Professor of the National University of Singapore Law Faculty (2008- 2013); and Senior Fellow of the Ministry of Trade and Industry Trade Academy. (2013-2014)
She has served in Singapore Missions in Bonn and in Geneva. She was Singapore’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN/WTO in Geneva from 1999-2002. She has been actively involved in GATT/WTO negotiations since the launch of the Uruguay Round. From 1985-1992, she was Singapore’s negotiator in the Uruguay Round, inter-alia, in the areas of Anti-Dumping, Subsidies and Countervailing Duty Measures, Safeguards, Dispute Settlement, GATT Articles and Government Procurement.
Ms Liang has considerable experience in international trade law cases before the GATT/WTO, both as advocate and panelist/Chairman. She was member of the Singapore team in the WTO dispute settlement case on Singapore/Malaysia-Import measures on certain petrochemical products.
She was panelist in Chile/EC Import Measures on Dessert Apples; US-EC Import Measures on Dessert Apples; arbitrator in EC-US Section 110(5) of US Copyright Act; Chairman in Peru-EC Trade Description of Sardines; panelist in US Definitive Safeguards Measures on Imports of Certain Steel products and Chairman in Korea: Measures affecting Import of Bovine Meat from Canada.
Ms Liang has contributed to major academic/WTO seminars and conducted WTO Trade Policy and FTA courses under Singapore’s Technical Assistance programmes for Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam and other Developing Countries since 2002. She has also conducted WTO Trade Policy, FTA and other trade-related courses for the International Development Law Organisation, Sydney, for RSIS and for the former Temasek Foundation Centre for Trade Negotiations for Asian developing countries, such as in Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Mongolia, Abu Dhabi and Timor-Leste.
Ms Liang also conducts in-house training programmes on WTO and other trade-related issues for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Enterprise Singapore, the Monetary Authorities of Singapore and the Singapore Civil Service College.
She was the Academic Coordinator for the WTO Regional Trade Policy Course, for Asia- Pacific, a joint cooperation between the WTO and the National University of Singapore from 2008-2010.

Deborah Elms is the Executive Director of the Asian Trade Centre (ATC) in Singapore. She is also President of the Advisory Board of the Asia Business Trade Association (ABTA) and the Board Director of the Asian Trade Centre Foundation (ATCF).

Dr. Elms sits on the International Technical Advisory Committee of the Global Trade Professionals Alliance and is Chair of the Working Group on Trade Policy and Law. She is on the board of the Trade and Investment Negotiation Adviser (TINA) at the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia Pacific (UNESCAP). She is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Trade and Investment Council for 2018-2020.

Prior to founding ATC/ATCF and the ABTA, she was head of the Temasek Foundation Centre for Trade & Negotiations (TFCTN) and Senior fellow of International Political Economy at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Dr. Elms received a PhD in political science from the University of Washington, a MA in International Relations from the University of Southern California, and bachelor’s degrees from Boston University.

She is the author of numerous articles, editor of several books, and publishes the weekly Talking Trade Blog at www.asiantradecentre.org/talkingtrade. Dr. Elms regularly appears on television and in major newspapers and magazines around the world to comment on trade and economic issues.

Prof. Henry Gao is Associate Professor of law at Singapore Management University and Dongfang Scholar Chair Professor at Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade. With law degrees from three continents, he started his career as the first Chinese lawyer at the WTO Secretariat. Before moving to Singapore in late 2007, he taught law at University of Hong Kong, where he was also the Deputy Director of the East Asian International Economic Law and Policy Program. He has taught at the IELPO program in Barcelona and the Academy of International Trade Law in Macau, and was the Academic Coordinator to the first Asia-Pacific Regional Trade Policy Course officially sponsored by the WTO.
Widely published on issues relating to China and WTO, Henry has advised many national governments as well as the WTO, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, APEC and ASEAN on trade issues. He sits on the Advisory Board of the WTO Chairs Program, which was established by the WTO Secretariat in 2009 to promote research and teaching on WTO issues in leading universities around the world. He is also a member of editorial board of Journal of Financial Regulation, which was launched by Oxford University Press in 2014.

Professor Lo was Justice of the Constitutional Court of the ROC (Taiwan) (2011- 2019). He was Chair Professor and Lifetime Distinguished Professor at National Taiwan University (NTU); Dean of NTU College of Law; Director of Asian Center for WTO and International Health Law and Policy of NTU College of Law (ACWH); Director of Center for Ethics, Law and Society in Biomedicine and Technology of NTU; Commissioner of Taiwan’s Fair Trade Commission; Commissioner of Taiwan’s International Trade Commission; and legal advisor for Taiwan’s GATT/WTO accession negotiations. In his capacity as the Director of ACWH, Professor Lo launched two English journals “Asian Journal of WTO and International Health Law and Policy” (SSCI-listed) and “Contemporary Asia Arbitration Journal” (ESCI-listed) in 2006 and 2008 respectively. In his capacity as Dean of NTU College of Law, he also launched an English journal “NTU Law Review” (TSCI-listed). Prior to his teaching career, he practiced law in Taipei. He was appointed by the WTO Director General as panelist for two WTO disputes (DS332 Brazil — Measures Affecting Imports of Retreaded Tyre in 2006 and DS468 Ukraine — Definitive Safeguard Measures on Certain Passenger Cars in 2014), and as a member of the Permanent Group of Experts in 2008. He was chairman (2013-2019) of the Asia WTO Research Network (AWRN). He received his SJD degree from Harvard Law School in 1989. He is author of 13 books, editor of 8 books, and author of 117 journal papers and book chapters. He received an Outstanding Scholarship Chair Professorship Award (2006.08-2011.07; by the Foundation for the Advancement of Outstanding Scholarship) and a National Chair Professorship Award (2001.08-2004.07; by the Ministry of Education, Taiwan) in recognition of his scholarly achievements. His fields include international economic law, WTO, competition law, treaty law, human rights, international health law, and international arbitration, among others.

Professor Tsai-yu Lin is a professor at National Taiwan University’s (NTU) College of Law and the Director of its Asian Center for WTO & International Health Law and Policy (ACWH). Professor Lin’s researches are principally in WTO law, international investment law and international health law. Previously she served as the executive secretary of the Asian WTO Research Network (AWRN), commissioner of Taiwan’s International Trade Commission and editorial board member of NTU Law Journal. She is a senior member of the Editorial Committees of “Asian Journal of WTO & International Health Law and Policy” and “Contemporary Asia Arbitration Journal”; and a member of the Indicative List of Governmental and Non-Governmental Panelists for resolving WTO disputes. Professor Lin currently advises Taiwan’s government on trade and related health law and policy issues.

Shin-yi Peng is Distinguished Professor of Law at National Tsing Hua University (NTHU). She is a former commissioner of the National Communications Commission of Taiwan (2012-2016). She has served as the Associate Dean of the College of Technology Management (2016-2019) and also as the Director of the Institute of Law for Science and Technology (2007-2012) at NTHU. Professor Peng specializes in international economic law, with a focus on trade in services, digital trade and, increasingly, data governance. She has been the recipient of top research awards, including Outstanding Research Awards from the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan. She frequently serves in an advisory and consultative capacity to the government, corporations and nongovernmental organizations. She is a member of New York Bar, a member of the Indicative List of governmental and nongovernmental panelists to hear WTO disputes, and a member of the roster of arbitrators under the Free Trade Agreement between Taiwan and Singapore. Professor Peng has served on the Executive Council (2012-2020) and as Executive Vice President (2016-2020) of the Society of International Economic Law (SIEL). She is currently an Editorial Board Member of the World Trade Review and the Asia Pacific Law Review.

Yueh-Ping (Alex) Yang is an associate professor at the National Taiwan University College of Law. He is currently the director of the Asian Center for WTO & International Health Law and Policy. He received his S.J.D. degree at Harvard University Law School in 2017 and has started teaching at National Taiwan University since then. Currently, his research interest focuses mainly on international financial laws and international economic laws, including financial prudential exceptions, international monetary laws, cross-border payment systems, cross-border privacy laws, state-owned enterprises, etc.