Thomas Wilhelmsson
University of Helsinki, Finland

Thomas Wilhelmsson is since 1982 Professor of Civil and Commercial Law at the University of Helsinki and since 1998 Vice-rector of the University.
Professor Wilhelmsson has published books and articles in thirteen languages in contract law, insurance law, consumer law, the law of partnerships, tort law, European Community law and legal theory.
He has been chairing several law drafting committees, dealing with reforms of consumer law, contract law as well as partnership law. He is a member of the Commission on European Contract Law (the Lando-Commission) and the Acquis group.
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Sothi Rachagan
Consumers International Asia and Pacific, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Dr Rachagan holds a B.A. (Malaya), M.A (Otago), LL M (Bristol) and PhD (London). He is a Barrister-at-Law (Lincolns Inn) and and Advocate and Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya. He was Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Law University of Malaya till 2000 when he became Consumers International's Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific. In 2005 he returned to academia and is currently Vice-President (Academic Affairs), Nilai International College.

Christine Riefa
Brunel University, West London, England

Dr Riefa recently completed a funded project on "The Protection of Consumers on online auction sites" at national, European and international levels. Dr Riefa obtained her PhD from the University of Montpellier (France) under the supervision of Professor Jean Calais-Auloy on the topic of "The Internet and market law - consumer protection and competition law". Her previous work (DEA dissertation) on "the consumer and the Internet" received the DGCCRF (OFT's counter-part in France) prize for best dissertation. She also received the University prize for best dissertation in Market law.
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Tsuneo Matsumoto
Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan

Geraint Howells
University of Lancaster, England

Professor Howells was appointed to Chair at Lancaster University in October 2004. Previously he had held a Personal Chair at Sheffield University since 1999.
In November 2002 he was called to the bar and practices out of Gough Square Chambers, London.
Professor Howells has conducted a number of empirical research projects and is author of books on various consumer and private law topics.
He is the editor of Ashgate's Markets and Law series which develops the European Business Law Library he edited. He serves on the SLS Consumer Law Panel, the DTI Consumer Law Advisory Panel and the ADR sub-committee of the Civil Justice Council.
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Gabriel Stiglitz
Instituto Argentino de Derecho del Consumidor, La Plata, Argentina

James Nehf
Indiana University, Indiana, USA

Professor and Cleon H. Foust Fellow, Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis. Professor Nehf has been teaching contracts, consumer law, and commercial law subjects for more than fifteen years.
He was the inaugural director of the European Law Program at Indiana University and has held several university administrative positions, including a term as interim director of the Indiana University Center on Southeast Asia.
His publications include an updated and revised edition of Corbin on Contracts, and numerous articles on privacy law, low-income consumer transactions, contracts, and international/comparative law subjects.
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Allen Zysblat
Ministry of Justice, Jerusalem, Israel

Allen Zysblat is Adjunct Professor of Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel, and a judge on Israel’s special Standard Contracts Tribunal.
Before coming to Israel in 1976, he was on the Faculty of Law at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, and a member of the British Columbia Law Reform Commission. Since 1976 he has been Senior Director for Commercial and Consumer Legislation at the Israel Ministry of Justice, while teaching at a number of Israel’s schools of law.

Claudia Lima Marques
Federal University of Porto Alegre, Brazil

Claudia Lima Marques holds the Private International Law and Law of International Relation Chair at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul at Porto Alegre, Brazil. She has a phD. from Heidelberg (Germany) and a LL.M. from Tübingen Law School (Germany).
She is the author of seven books in consumer law and has written numerous articles on civil law (contracts, torts and family law), on conflicts of laws and consumer law issues.

Peter Rott
Bremen University, Germany

Junior Professor for Private Law, in particular European Private Law, at the University of Bremen since February 2003.
Peter Rott has written several books and articles on German and EC private law, in particular consumer law, on international patent law, world trade law and EC environmental law.
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Iain Ramsay
University of Kent, England

Iain Ramsay is Professor of Law at the University of Kent.
His primary areas of research are regulation of consumer markets and consumption relations at the national and international level and consumer bankruptcy.
Professor Ramsay has written several books and articles on consumer law and bankruptcy including several empirical studies of consumer bankruptcy, consumer redress and small claims courts.
He has acted as a consultant on consumer law and policy to governments and NGOs in Canada, Europe and South America. He was a member of the Canadian Federal Task Force on Personal Insolvency (2000-2002) and is an elected member of the American Law Institute.
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Gail Pearson
University of Sydney, Australia

Professor Pearson (BA (Hons), PHD, LLB) is Chair of the Discipline of Business Law at the University of Sydney.
She has published numerous articles in Australian and international journals including chapters in Halsburys Laws of Australia.
Her research is concerned with technical legal questions and with the location of rules in a particular historical or social and economic setting.
She is a member of the Fair Trading Advisory Council and a member of the consultative committee to the Consumer Trader and Tenancy Tribunal. She is also a member of the Business Law Specialist Accreditation Committee of the Law Society of New South Wales and of the Course Advisory Committee for the Financial Services Institute of Australasia.
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Michelle Kelly-Louw
University of South Africa

Michelle Kelly-Louw is an associate professor in the Department of Mercantile Law at the University of South Africa. She lectures the law of negotiable instruments, insolvency law and banking law and has published various legal articles in these fields.
Recently she has been appointed to the panel of legal experts for the National Treasury as well as to the legal panel of the South African National Roads Agency Limited Property Portfolio. She has also been appointed as a part time Presiding Officer for the Department of Labour (Compensation Fund). She is a member of the Association of Insolvency Practitioners of South Africa and an advisory member of the Journal for Estate Planning Law.

Felicia Monye
University of Nigeria

Dr. Monye, a Senior Law Lecturer at the University of Nigeria Enugu Campus, has been in the area of consumer law for about 20 years. She teaches Commercial Law, Law of Contract and Law of Consumer Protection. In 1997, she got her University to introduce the teaching of consumer law at the undergraduate level and started the course as a pioneer lecturer.
he is the author of Law of Consumer Protection and the initiator and Editor-in-Chief of Consumer Journal, the first of its kind in Nigeria.
Dr. Monye is the founder and national president of the Consumer Awareness Organisation, a non-governmental organisation which engages in consumer enlightenment programmes among other things. She is also a consultant to the Department for International Development (DFID) on consumer issues.

Mónika Józon
University of Transsylvania, Romania

Dr. Józon is currently Associate Professor at Sapientia-Hungarian University of Transylvania, Faculty of Economics and Humanities, where she teaches EU law, international trade law, comparative competition law, Romanian civil law and legal theory.
Her research interests include product liability, environmental law, law and economics of European integration and EC competition law.