Academic Staff
Professor Mark Williams
has been appointed the first Director of ACLEC. He holds a PhD in
competition law from King’s College, University of London and published
the first comprehensive study of competition law and policy in greater
China – ‘Competition Policy and Law of China, Hong Kong and Taiwan’,
Cambridge University Press (2005). Professor Williams is a qualified
solicitor and is admitted to practice in both England and Wales and
Hong Kong.
He has published various articles on
a number of aspects of competition law and policy in China, Hong Kong,
and other East Asian jurisdictions. He has been an active participant
in competition policy training programmes with APEC and for the
Japanese Fair Trade Commission. He has spoken at many conferences on
competition issues in Hong Kong, China, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia
and Japan as well as in the United States, the United Kingdom and
Australia. He has also addressed the United Nations Conference on Trade
and Development.
Professor Williams has worked closely with competition experts from
many countries and help established the Asian Competition Forum in
2005. He has been an active proponent of competition law adoption in
Hong Kong for many years. He hopes that the establishment of ACLEC will
help to enhance competition law and policy capacity in China, Hong Kong
and East Asia by offering high quality teaching, training, research and
consultancy services to a wide range of students and clients.
Dr. Andrew Simpson
is a lawyer of more than fifteen years' experience in competition law
and industry regulation throughout the Asia-Pacific region. After
qualifying in New Zealand, Andrew earned his PhD at Sydney University
Law School. Andrew is currently an Assistant Professor with the School
of Accounting & Finance at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, where
he is involved in the development of Asia's first Master's degree in
competition law and economics. Andrew is admitted to practise in Hong
Kong, England & Wales, New South Wales and New Zealand.
Andrew
previously practised law with Arculli and Associates in Hong Kong and
with Gilbert + Tobin in Sydney. In private practise Andrew specialized
in contentious and non-contentious competition matters under the Trade
Practices Act, and in telecommunications and radiocommunications
regulatory and commercial work in Hong Kong and regionally.
Andrew
was formerly Assistant General Counsel to the New Zealand Commerce
Commission. In that role, Andrew led the Legal Regulatory Group, which
was responsible for providing legal advice to Commissioners and staff,
in relation to merger clearance proceedings; conduct authorizations;
regulation of New Zealand's telecommunications, electricity, gas and
dairy industries; and associated enforcement proceedings. For three
years Andrew was Director of Regulatory Affairs for a Hong Kong-based
submarine cable operator, with responsibility for that group's
regulatory, competition and compliance matters.
Dr. Simpson
is co-editor of two books on electronic commerce and the author of a
number of articles on economic regulation and competition law.
Dr. Mike Fung
is an Associate Professor in the School of Accounting and Finance at
Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He has research interests in
industrial organization and financial economics, and has published
widely in these areas. He was an examiner of the Chartered Institute of
Logistic and Transport, and is currently a member of the Banking and
Finance Training Board of the Hong Kong Vocational Training Council. He
is also a committee member of the Hong Kong Examination Authority.