Mr. YANG Guohua is a professor at China Tsinghua University Law School, teaching A Study on China WTO Cases (undergraduate), Legal Problems in Sino-US Economic Relations (graduate students), Chinese Economic and Legal Systems from the Perspective of China WTO Cases (foreign students) and A Study on Tsinghua University (general education course for freshmen).

When he was working in the Chinese Ministry of Commerce from 1996-2014, he participated in the negotiations on China WTO accession and drafting the Accession Protocol and Working Party Report; he led a group of experts checking Chinese laws and regulations against the WTO rules and China commitments; he was the first Director and later Deputy Director General for WTO Legal Affairs within the Ministry responsible for WTO cases related to China. In numerous articles, speeches and over a dozen books, he tried to prove that the WTO established a good example for international rule of law and WTO membership contributed to the economic and social development in China, so he strongly advocated for the multilateral trading system represented by the WTO. He also has a rich background on trade policy making and international cooperation. For example, he was the head of Chinese delegations for intellectual property rights dialogues with the United States, the EU, Japan, Russia, Switzerland and Brazil, and for international conferences at Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), etc.

He is Executive Vice Chairman, WTO Law Research Society of China Law Society (China WTO Law Society); Arbitrator, International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC, China) and South China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission/Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration (SCIA, China); Member, Expert Group for Commercial and Maritime Trials, Supreme Court, China; Member, Indicative List for dispute settlement panels, the WTO Secretariat; Associate Editor, Journal of World Trade; Distinguished Legal Scholar Award, Beijing Law Society (1999). He was also IP attaché at Chinese Embassy in the United States, Washington, DC (2006.1-2008.9) and WTO Appellate Body member candidate (2016).

He graduated from Peking University Law School in 1996 (Ph.D) and Wuhan University Law School in 1994 (LLM). He was born in 1965.

Email：yangguohua@tsinghua.edu.cn