Emeritus Prof. Dr. Peter L.H. Van den Bossche

Chair Professor and National Leading Scholar, Xi’an Jiaotong University (2025-present); former Member and Chair, WTO Appellate Body (2009-2019); former President, Society of International Economic Law (2018-2024); former Director of Studies, WTI (2016-2025); Professor emeritus, University of Bern and Maastricht University.

Peter Van den Bossche is Chair Professor of International Economic Law and Leading National Scholar at the School of Law, Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU), China. He was a member of the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization from 2009 to 2019, and served as its chairman in 2015. From 2018 to 2024, he served as President of the Society of International Economic Law (SIEL), and from 2016 to 2024, as Director of Studies of the World Trade Institute (WTI), University of Bern, Switzerland. He is a Fellow Emeritus of the WTI, Professor Emeritus at the University of Bern and Maastricht University, The Netherlands, and a visiting professor at the Université de Genève (since 2018),  and LUISS Guido Carli University, Rome  (since 2016). He was a visiting professor at Bocconi University, Milan in 2022, 2023 and 2024, at the College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium from 2010 to 2024, at the University of Barcelona from 2002 to 2017, and at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador from 2016 to 2020. In 2023, he was the Tsai Wan-Tsai Distinguished Visiting Professor of International Law at the College of Law of Taiwan National University, Taipei, and in 2010 Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence. Van den Bossche is member of the Advisory Board of the World Trade Review, the Journal of International Economic Law, and the Journal of World Investment and Trade. Since 2013, he is also member of the Advisory Board of the WTO Chairs Programme (WCP). Van den Bossche is on the roster of arbitrators for disputes under the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA), the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), and the EU-Andean Community Trade Agreement, on the panel of arbitrators of the Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration (SCIA) and the South China International Arbitration Center (Hong Kong) (SCIAHK), and on the EU list of candidates suitable for appointment as arbitrators and TSD experts. From 2023 to 2025, Van den Bossche served as a panellist on two WTO disputes: European Union - Stainless Steel Cold-Rolled Flat Products (Indonesia) (DS616) and European Union - Biodiesel (Indonesia) (DS618).

Van den Bossche is the author (with Werner Zdouc) of The Law and Policy of the World Trade Organization, 5th edition (Cambridge University Press, 2022), 1170 p., and (with Denise Prévost) of Essentials of WTO Law, 2nd edition (Cambridge University Press, 2021), 223 p. The Chinese edition of The Law and Policy of the World Trade Organization was published in 2020 by Law Press China.