The School of Trade Negotiations currently has near 20 full-time faculty members, all of whom are Ph.D. holders and most of whom either have obtained their degrees from or paid academic visits to tertiary or research institutions outside China, such as Harvard University, Georgetown University, Universität Hamburg, Universität Bonn, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, University of Helsinki, Ghent University, Aix-Marseille University, Université de Lausanne, University of Torino, the University of Manchester, the University of Sydney, the University of Adelaide, and the Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore). Many of our faculty members have provided their professional services to prestigious organizations, such as serving as arbitrators of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), academic coordinators of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the United Nations Economic and Social Council for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), members and adjudicators of the Permanent Academic Committee of the Moot Court Debate Competition of European Law Students' Association (ELSA), experts on Global Value Chain of the Advisory Committee on Economic and Trade Policy of the Ministry of Commerce, experts on Overseas Intellectual Property Rights Defense Assistance of Enterprises of the Ministry of Commerce, vice president of Expert Committee for China Association of Trade in Services, and consultants of Shanghai International Trade Service Base for Overseas Intellectual Property Rights Protection (SITISC).