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.

Dr. Luca Rubini is a lecturer in law at Birmingham Law School where he teaches WTO law, EU law and EC competition law at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Previously, he was lecturer at the University of Leicester (2005-2007) and legal secretary to Advocate General Francis Jacobs at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg (2002-2003). He has been Visiting Researcher to the Georgetown University Law Center, Washington DC, and Visiting Professorial Fellow at the Institute of International Economic Law there (Fall 2007). He is visiting professor at ASERI, the Postgraduate School of Economics and International Relations, Milan, and Visiting Fellow to the Centre of European Law, King’s College London. Dr Rubini has law degrees from the Catholic University in Milan (JD) and King's College London (MA and PhD) and is admitted to the Bar in Italy and to the Law Society of England and Wales as solicitor (non-practising).
His most recent publications include the books The Definition of Subsidy and State Aid – WTO Law and EC Law in Comparative Perspective (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), Microsoft on Trial: Legal and Economic Analysis of a Transatlantic Antitrust Case (edited, Cheltengam, Elgar, 2009), and the policy paper co-authored with Gary Hufbauer and Thomas Moll, Investment Subsidies for Cross-Border Mergers & Acquisitions: Trends and Policy Implications (New York: United States Council for International Business Foundation, 2008).
His current research interests include: the international control of public subsidies; energy, trade and climate change linkages, with a special focus on the trade regulation of measures to fight climate change; the connection between human rights protection and development,; the interface between competition and IP law; and parallels between EC and WTO law.

Cost: CHF 1'500.-

Registration date: 22 March 2010