Bai, Shuqiang

Mr. Shuqiang BAI is a professor of economics at the University of International Business and Economics (UIBE) in Beijing, China. He is currently an associate-secretary of the WTO Research Academy and deputy director of Tariff Research Center at UIBE.

Mr. BAI was born in 1958. He realized his MBA at University of Houston, in the United States. He studied Customs Administration and International Business in China, where he culminated his post-graduate studies with a Ph.D. in international trade theory at UIBE.

His fields of work and interest are the theory and policy of international trade, competition policy, and world trading system and the WTO law. He teaches Economics Principles, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics for the undergraduate students, Industrial Organization for post-graduates, Introduction to the WTO, and Research on the WTO Issues.

He has published extensively on matters related to the GATT/WTO: Commentary on GATT’s Customs Valuation (1992), Introductory Theory of Customs Valuation (1996) and Global Competition (2000), Introduction to the WTO’s Agreement on Customs Valuation (2002), Introduction to the World Trade Organization (2009, and Global Competition Policy (2011).     

In parallel to his career as a professor, Mr. BAI has an extensively professional experience encompassing several senior consulting positions at the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) and the Tariff Committee under the State Council of China, where he studied GATT/WTO’s Rules and he is taking part in training program for both Chinese and international senior officials.

From 1995 to 1996, he acted as a legal consultant for Asian Development Bank, where he was in charge of the Project of Strengthening the Legal Framework for China’s Customs. From March 2002 to September 2003, he had been working as First Secretary in Permanent Mission of China to the WTO, Geneva. During his stay in Geneva, he was in charge of the following subjects: trade and development, trade and environment, Singapore issues (competition policy, trade facilitation), trade policy review, and market access.