Bryan Mercurio is chair professor, associate dean and the vice chancellor’s outstanding fellow of the faculty of law at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Specializing in international economic law, Mercurio is a leading expert in the intersection between trade law and intellectual property rights. He is co-author of one of the most widely used case books on World Trade Organization law and co-editor of the leading collection on bilateral and regional trade agreements. He previously taught in the faculty of law at the University of New South Wales. He has also held visiting positions at a number of institutions in Asia, Europe and North America and is currently a senior fellow at the Melbourne Law School. Before his work in academia, Mercurio worked as a trade policy officer for the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. He subsequently practiced international trade, intellectual property and commercial law in the United States and Australia and participated as an adviser to the Australian opposition party during the negotiation of the Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement. He remains a frequent consultant and adviser to governments, industry associations and law firms on a wide range of trade and investment matters. Current consultations include the World Intellectual Property Organization, the U.K., European Union, ASEAN and Thailand. Mercurio was a member of the founding committee and served on the inaugural executive board of the Society of International Economic Law, a founding member of the SIEL Intellectual Property Law Network, a founding member of the Asian International Economic Law Network and is a member for Hong Kong in the Asian WTO Research Network.