| Robert Anderson is Counsellor, Intellectual Property Division, in the Secretariat of the World Trade Organization (WTO) where he leads the Secretariat team supporting the work of the WTO Committee on Government Procurement. He also has advisory and monitoring responsibilities in the Secretariat regarding international competition policy issues. He was previously the lead Secretariat staff member supporting the WTO Working Group on Trade and Competition Policy when that body was active from 1997 through 2003. Prior to joining the WTO in 1997, Mr. Anderson worked for a number of years in the Canadian Competition Bureau (Canada's national antitrust agency) where he held various senior positions and dealt with policy, legislative, enforcement and international cooperation issues. Mr. Anderson is the author/co-author of articles published in the Journal of International Economic Law, the Public Procurement Law Review, the Antitrust Law Journal, the Swiss Review of International Economic Relations ("Aussenwirtschaft"), the Review of Industrial Organization and the Canadian Competition Record in addition to chapters in various edited volumes. He is co-editor (with Prof. Nancy Gallini of the University of British Columbia) of Competition Policy and Intellectual Property Rights in the Knowledge-based Economy (Industry Canada Research Series, 1998). He is on the Editorial Board of the Public Procurement Law Review and is a member of the Academic Society for Competition Law. Mr. Anderson holds degrees in economics and law from the University of British Columbia and Osgoode Hall Law School (Canada), respectively, and has completed post-graduate courses in economics and international affairs at York and Carleton Universities also in Canada. | |
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Master Programme (MILE) 
