Dr. Markus Gehring,
Germany 
Lead Counsel, Trade, Investment, Competition Law

Dr Markus W. Gehring is Lead Counsel for Sustainable International Trade, Investment and Competition Law with the Centre of International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL). He is Lecturer in International and European Law at the Centre of International Studies and Fellow in Law at Cambridge University (Robinson College). He holds an LL.M from Yale and a Dr jur from Hamburg. He is a member of the Frankfurt Bar, and a former associate member of the Brussels Bar. He represented the CISDL at World Trade Organization Ministerial Conferences in Doha, Qatar; Cancun, Mexico; and Hong Kong, China; as well as at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa and various other international negotiations. He is a member of the International Law Association, German Branch, and serves on the ILA Committee on International Law on Sustainable Development. He is also a member representative of the Concerted Action on Trade and Environment (CATE) research initiative, funded by the European Commission, and an instructor in international trade law at the International Development Law Organization.

Prior to joining Cambridge University, Dr Gehring practiced European Competition and International Trade law at Cleary Gottlieb in their Brussels office. He was Tutor in Public International Law at the Oxford University Faculty of Law (University and other Colleges) and a legal researcher with Prof. Vaughan Lowe (All Souls College). He also taught German Constitutional and Administrative Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Hamburg, Germany, and was legal fellow at the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development in Geneva, where he edited the BRIDGES Journal legal column. Dr Gehring has published on various aspects of trade, European and climate change law. His most recent book, with Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, is titled Sustainable Development in World Trade Law (Kluwer Law International, 2005). He is currently writing a new book, Sustainability through Process in WTO Law and Policy. His other legal research focuses on the constitutional dimensions of European and international trade law, and sustainable development law at the intersection of international economic, environmental and social development law.