Ian McEwin

Relevant qualifications and honours

• Image representing graduationLLB (1st Class Honours), Australian National University
• Master of Commerce, Newcastle, N.S.W
• PhD in Economics, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University
• Legal Practitioner, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
• Alumni, Twenty-Second Law Institute for Economics Professors conducted by the Law of Economics Centre of George Mason University School of Law, Dartmouth College, U.S.A., July 1991.

Relevant work history and Committee involvement

• 2016 - present - Head, Competition Consulting Asia
• Visiting Fellow, Arndt-Corden Department of Economics, ANU
• 2014 - 2016 Professor, Khazanah Nasional Chair of Regulatory Studies, UMCoRS, University of Malaysia
• 2012 - 2014 Visiting Professor of Law, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok
• June 2008 to June 2012 Visiting Professor of Law, National University of Singapore, (teaching Competition Law and Economics, Asian Competition Law and ASEAN Competition Law)
• 2006 - May 2008 Chief Economist, Competition Commission of Singapore
• 2004 - 2006 Visiting Professor of Law, National University of Singapore (half-time) (teaching Comparative Competition Law and Law and Economics)
• 2004 – 2006 Senior Advisor, Competition Commission of Singapore (half-time)
• 2002 - 2004 Principal Economist, Economics Division, Ministry of Trade and Industry, Singapore. (Advising on the policy, design, drafting and implementation of competition law in Singapore)
• 2001 - 2002 Director, Law and Economics Consulting Group (LECG) Australia
• 1997 - 2002 Part-time lecturer at Law Faculty, University of New South Wales: LLB course ‘Trade Practices’ (with Ray Steinwall) and LLM course ‘Telecommunications Competition Law’
• 1998 - 2001 Partner, Case Associates, London (competition law and economics consulting firm specialising in telecommunications and media)
• 1995 - 1998 Reader in Law and Foundation Director of the Centre for Law and Economics, Faculty of Law, Australian National University
• 1991 - 1994 Part-time Consultant/Lawyer with Sly and Weigall (now Deacons) in Canberra on competition law and anti- dumping matters
• 1993 - 1997 Lecturer in Executive MBA program of the Australian Graduate School of Management, University of NSW
• 1988 – 1994 Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics and Management, ADFA, University of New South Wales, Canberra,
• 1988 - 1994 Member of Management Investment Committee, Swiss Reinsurance (Australia) Ltd in Melbourne
• 1992 Visiting Fellow, Law School and Economics Department, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University
• 1990 Visiting Professor, Law School, George Mason University, Washington, D.C
• 1986-1988 Senior Research Fellow, Centre of Policy Studies, Monash University (co-taught a third year course called ‘Competition and Regulation’ with Prof. M. Brunt)
• 1985 - 1986 Visiting Scholar, Centre for the Study of the Economy and the State (Director: Nobel Laureate George Stigler), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago)
• August / September 1985 Visitor, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Wolfson College, Oxford University
• 1982 - 1986 Lecturer in Economics, University of NSW
• 1979 - 1981 Economist, Commercial Banking Company of Sydney

Editorial positions

• Member of Editorial Board for Australian Business Law Review
• Member of Editorial Board for Compliance Insider Springer Media, Hong Kong
• Co-Editor, Competition Policy International
• Co-Editor, Global Policy International, Boston.
• Member of Editorial Board for Asia Pacific Law and Economics Review

Relevant memberships

• Member, Board of Advisors for the the Global Antitrust Institute, George Mason University School of Law, Law & Economics Center
• Member, Copyright Tribunal, Singapore (2009 to 2012)
• Member of the Mont Pelerin Society Senior Fellow, Tim Fischer Centre for Global Trade and Finance, Bond University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
• Member, American Bar Association International Antitrust Committee.
• Member, International Antitrust and Foreign Competition Law Committee, American Bar Association, since 1999.
• Member, Trade Practices Committee, Business Law Section of the Law Council of Australia, 1998 - 2002.
• Member, Law Committee, Australian Institute of Company Directors, 1996 - 2002.
• Member, Advisory Group, Australian Law Reform Commission’s Reference on the Adversarial System
• Foundation Chairman, Canberra Regional Committee, Business Law Section of Law Council of Australia.

Relevant recognition

• One of the 100 Leading Lawyers in 2011 in the Asia Pacific, Lawyer Monthly Magazine (UK)
• Leading Competition Economist, Global Competition Review 2011.
• The International Who's Who of Competition Lawyers & Economists 2011
• Former President, Australian Law and Economics Association.
• Member, International Bar Association’s Special Committee on China’s Competition Law.