Team

Chairholder, Qatar WTO Chairs Programme (WCP) Chair, Professor, and Associate Dean for Research

Educational Background

• J.S.D., Yale Law School, USA
• Ph.D. in Law, University of Heidelberg, Germany
• LL.M., Yale Law School, USA
• LL.M., University of Heidelberg, Germany
• LL.B., University of Athens, Greece

Research Interests

• International economic law and adjudication
• Digital law and policy
• Special jurisdictions (Special economic zones; International commercial courts).

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Qatar WTO Co-chair and Assistant Professor, College of Law

Educational Background

• LL.B., University of Ibadan, Nigeria
• LL.M., King’s College London, UK
• Ph.D., The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Research Interests

• International economic law
• Transnational commercial law
• Company law

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Assistant Professor of Islamic and Sustainable Finance

Educational Background

• Ph.D., École Normale Supérieure (ENS) de Lyon, France
• M.Sc. in Management, NEOMA Business School, France
• Executive Master in Islamic Finance, Paris Dauphine University. France

Research Interests

• Sustainable finance
• Islamic finance
• SME finance
• Humanitarian finance
• Building sustainable food systems

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Postdoctoral Fellow

Educational Background

Ph.D. in International Law, City St George's, University of London, UK

Research Interests

• International Economic Law (especially investment protection and investment facilitation)
• EU External Relations Law
• The geoeconomic turn in global governance (especially the EU’s Open Strategic Autonomy doctrine and the pursuit of digital sovereignty)
• State capitalism
• The global governance of economic sanctions
• The national security turn in industrial policy.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Educational Background

• LL.B. in Near and Middle Eastern History, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), UK
• M.A. in Near and Middle Eastern History, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), UK
• M.Sc. in South Asian Studies with Persian, University of Oxford, UK

Research Interests

• International economic law
• Trade law and geo-economics
• Peace and conflict studies

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Doctoral Fellow

Educational Background

• LL.B. (Hons), University of London
• LL.M. in International Law and Foreign Affairs, College of Law, Hamad Bin Khalifa University

Research Interests

• The governance of cross-border data flows from an industrial policy angle
• Implications for international economic law

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Qatar WCP Chair TradeLab Fellow

Educational Background

• J.D., Hamad Bin Khalifa University
• B.S. in Foreign Affairs, Georgetown University in Qatar

Research Interests

• International relations
• International trade law
• Energy law
• Dispute resolution

Research Assistant

Educational Background

• LL.M. Candidate in International Economic and Business Law, Hamad Bin Khalifa University
• LL.B., Universitas Pelita Harapan, Indonesia

Research Interests

Intersection between digital law and human rights

Qatar WCP Chair TTR Fellow

Educational Background

B.S. in International Politics, Georgetown University in Qatar

Research Interests

GCC food security policies and their compliance with the WTO jurisprudence.

Qatar WCP Asia Network Fellow

Educational Background

• J.D. Candidate, Hamad Bin Khalifa University (2026)
• B.S. in Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar

Research Interests

• Commercial law
• International trade law
• Alternative dispute resolution

Qatar WCP Asia Chair Network Fellow

Educational Background

• J.D. Candidate, Hamad Bin Khalifa University
• B.S. in Journalism, Northwestern University in Qatar

Research Interests

• Public international law
• International trade law
• Alternative dispute resolution methods

Research Assistant, Qatar WCP Chair

Educational Background

• J.D. Candidate, Hamad Bin Khalifa University
• LL.M., Hainan University, China
• B.Eng. in New Energy Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Research Interests

• Legal design of industrial and infrastructure policies, with a focus on free trade zones
• Investment regulation
• The governance of emerging technologies, such as AI

Research Assistant, Qatar WTO Chair

Educational Background

B.S. in International Relations and Political Science, Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar. Minors: Cybersecurity; International Conflict and American Politics and Law

Research Interests

• AI policy
• International law
• U.S.-China relations

Research Assistant, Qatar WCP Chair

Educational Background

B.S.F.S., Georgetown University in Qatar

Research Interests

• Examining how international investment law, digital trade governance, and industrial policy can be leveraged to indigenize global value chains.
• How data infrastructures and emerging digital production networks reproduce extractive political economies that marginalize Indigenous and local communities in the Global South.
• Designing legal frameworks that center sovereignty, equitable value capture, and community-led climate-resilient development within digital and green supply chains.