Ziegler Andreas

Andreas R. Ziegler studied economics, international relations and law at the universities of St. Gallen, Paris (SciencesPo), Florence (European University Institute) and London. After obtaining his doctorate in St. Gallen in 1995, he undertook postdoctoral research at Georgetown University Law Center (Washington, DC, USA) and the Max-Planck-Institute in Heidelberg (Germany). He was a civil servant working for several Swiss Ministries as well as the EFTA Secretariat and the European Commission before being appointed full professor of law at the University of Lausanne in 2003. He has also worked for a major law firm and is counsel with Blum & Grob (Zürich, Switzerland). He is on the rosters of panelists of the WTO and of conciliators of ICSID and serves as the president of the Swiss Chapter of the International Law Association (ILA). He served as a Vice Dean of the Law Faculty of the University of Lausanne and is currently the Director of its LLM Programme in International Economic and Commercial Law. He holds a conjoint professorship at the Law School of the University of New South Wales as well as visiting appointments at the Universities of St. Gallen and ETH Zürich. He has held guest professorships at various universities worldwide including the University of Paris, Bocconi University in Milan, the University of Lund, as well as the University of Pittsburgh.