United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law MR. PETER VAN DEN BOSSCHE Director of Studies, World Trade Institute Professor of International Economic Law, Faculty of Law, University of Bern From 2009 to 2017, Peter Van den Bossche was, as Member of the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization (WTO), an WTO appellate judge, and served as chairman of the Appellate Body in 2015. In 2018, he continued to hear appeals in cases assigned to him before the expiry in December 2017 of his second and last term as a WTO appellate judge. He is an honorary professor at Maastricht University, the Netherlands, where he taught from 1992 to 2018. He is a visiting professor at the LUISS Guido Carli University, Rome, Italy (since 2016), at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador (since 2016) and at the College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium (since 2010). He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Journal of International Economic Law, the Journal of World Investment and Trade, the Revista Latinoamericana de Derecho Comercial Internacional and the WTO Chairs Programme of the World Trade Organization. Mr. Van den Bossche holds a Doctorate in Law from the European University Institute in Florence, an LL.M. from the University of Michigan Law School, and a Licence en Droit magna cum laude from the University of Antwerp. From 1990 to 1992, he served as a référendaire of Advocate General W. van Gerven at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg. From 1997 to 2001, Mr. Van den Bossche was Counsellor and subsequently Acting Director of the WTO Appellate Body Secretariat. In 2001, he returned to academia and from 2002 to 2009 frequently acted as a consultant to international organisations and developing countries on issues of international economic law. In 2010, Mr. Van den Bossche was a Fernand Braudel Senior Research Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence. He served as a visiting professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium (from 2002 to 2009); at the China-EU School of Law (CESL), China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL), Beijing, China (from 2008 to 2014); at the Academy of International Trade and Investment Law, Macau, China (2003-2013); at the Trade Policy Training Centre in Africa (trapca), Arusha, Tanzania (in 2008 and 2013); at the Foreign Trade University, Hanoi & Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (in 2009 and 2011); at the Law School of Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey (in 2013); at the Melbourne Law www.un.org/law/avl United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law School, University of Melbourne, Australia (in 2014); and at the Faculty of Law, Universitas Pelita Harapan, Jakarta, Indonesia (in 2014). Mr. Van den Bossche has published extensively in the field of international economic law. The fourth edition of his textbook The Law and Policy of the World Trade Organization was published by Cambridge University Press in 2017. www.un.org/law/avl .