Robert Ian McEwin

Ian McEwin is an Australian lawyer with a PhD in Economics who specialises in Southeast Asian competition law and economics. He has been an expert witness in major competition law cases in Australia and New Zealand and was foundation Director of the Centre for Law and Economics in the Law Faculty at the Australian National University in Canberra. In 2002 the Singapore Ministry of Trade & Industry recruited him to help with the drafting of the Singapore competition law and the setting up of the Singapore Competition Commission. He subsequently became the Commission’s first Chief Economist. Following that he became a visiting Professor of Law at the National University of Singapore and then at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. He was subsequently appointed as Khazanah National Chair at the University of Malaya. He has helped several governments introduce competition law in Southeast Asia. He was appointed to the Foundation Board of Advisors of the Global Antitrust Institute at the George Mason University School of Law in Washington, is on the Advisory Board of the China Antitrust Law Journal and is currently writing a book Competition Law in Southeast Asia for Cambridge University Press. He is currently involved in competition law consulting in regulatory and litigation work in Southeast Asia.