Thomas Cheng (2002)

Thomas Cheng is a professor at the University of Hong Kong. He has written extensively on competition law in developing countries and competition law in the digital economy and in a world of artificial intelligence. In 2020 and 2021, he published Competition Law in Developing Countries and The Patent-Competition Interface in Developing Countries, two of the first comprehensive monographs on competition law in developing countries, with Oxford University Press. In 2023, his article co-authored with Julian Nowag received the Best Unilateral Conduct article from the prestigious Concurrences Antitrust Writing Award. He assisted the Hong Kong government in drafting the city’s first competition law and was a founding member of the Hong Kong Competition Commission. He was named by Global Competition Review, a leading competition law publication, as one of the 25 most influential antitrust academics in the world in 2022.