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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.