Yixin Cao

Yixin Cao

Patricia de Diego de Rábago

Patricia de Diego de Rábago

Patricia de Diego de Rábago joins IGLP as a PhD student in Law at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). Her doctoral thesis focuses on a pressing issue within the insurance industry: the inability of the private insurance sector to cover the indemnities for cyber insurance claims. This challenge highlights the need for a public-private collaboration, and she is exploring the feasibility of expanding the coverage provided by the Spanish Insurance Compensation Consortium to include a new category (Extraordinary Technological Catastrophes) to address the increasing risk of cybercrime.

Patricia holds a Bachelors dual degree in Law and Labor Relations & Human Resources from the UCM. She received the highest honors for her final thesis on Strategic Business Management and was awarded the Enrique Ruano Human Rights Prize in its 9^th edition. She also holds a Masters Degree in Legal Practice, where she was awarded a scholarship to complete her internship at the Spanish Consulate in Chicago.

Regarding her previous professional experience, Patricia has worked in the Financial Services Legal and Regulatory department at EY, and it is also worth mentioning her experience in the legal department of the Spanish Consortium of Insurance Compensation. Currently, she is combining her part-time PhD with her professional work in the Management Corps of the Spanish Social Security Institute.

Xiaoduo Guo

Xiaoduo Guo

Xiaoduo Guo joins IGLP as a PhD student in Public International Law at Peking University Law School. Her doctoral research focuses on how the Late Qing was incorporated into the international information order and its dynamic interactions with the global information system.

Xiaoduo holds a Bachelor of Arts from East China University of Political Science and Law and a Master of Laws from Peking University. Her current project primarily employs historical research, including archival studies of the Late Qing, the ITU, and related multinational corporations, exploring the processes of resistance, acceptance, and incorporation of the Late Qing into the global order, as well as the sociological, economic, and political imaginaries that underpinned these transformations.

Zhao Hong

Zhao Hong

Zhao Hong joins IGLP as a Professor at Law School of Peking University, Ph.D. Supervisor in international law and International Economic Law and Director of WTO Law Centre at PKU.

She is in the panel of arbitrators at ICSID (effective May 2024- May 2030), as well as in the indicative list of Panelists of Dispute Settlement Body at WTO. She is also Member of International Commercial Expert Committee of the Supreme People’s Court (CICC), National IP expert nominated by SIPO, and guest Professor of Fudan and Shanghai Jiaotong University, distinguished professor at High People’s Court of Shanghai. Besides, Professor Zhao has been nominated as a special expert for the Comprehensive Implementation of Rule of Law by Shanghai Municipality, and also being nominated as expert of the Trade Remedy Advisory Committee by Zhejiang Province, Chief Expert of Foreign Related Rule of Law Institute of Shanghai Politics and Law College, distinguished researcher at Diplomatic and International Law Institute of Hainan University. Moreover, Professor Zhao is arbitrator at CIETAC, Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration, Shanghai Arbitration Commission and is on International Investment Arbitration Panel of Beijing Arbitration Commission.

From 2016 to 2020, she served as Member of Appellate Body of WTO. From January 1 to July 1 of 2019 and December 10 of 2019 to November 30 2020, she also served as Chairperson of Appellate Body of World Trade Organization. She presided, heard and exchanged views of about 20 trade disputes among the Members of WTO. She was at public service at Treaty and Law Department, Anti-Monopoly Bureau, WTO Affairs Department of Ministry of Commerce of China, Permanent Mission of China to the WTO, China Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation for about 20 years. She was also elected as Chairperson of TRIMs Committee at the WTO in the year of 2012.

Her teaching and professional practices cover such fields as international law, international economic law, WTO law, international investment law, competition and anti-monopoly law, IP and technology transfer law, US and EU trade law, international dispute settlement. She current interest focuses on Philosophy of east and west law and history of international law. She publishes theses of legal profession in both English and Chinese.

She was invited to give lecture or participated academic seminars at University of London, Oxford-Broom University of UK, the Geneva Graduate Institute of International Relations and Development, the World Trade Institute at University of Bern of Switzerland, Barcelona University of Spain, Leuven University of Belgium, Humboldt–Universitat zu Berlin and Munich University of Germany, University of Hong Kong, University of Macau, Hong Kong Chinese University and City University of Hong Kong during the past more than two decades.

She graduated from Law School at Peking University, obtaining B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. in laws.