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 Bocconi University, Milan (since 2022), at the Université de Genève (since 2018), and LUISS Guido Carli University, Rome (since 2016). He was a visiting professor at the College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium from 2010 to 2024, 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 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.