WTO Chair Holder / İstanbul Bilgi University
Dr. Pınar Artıran is the WTO Chair Holder and Director of the Research Center for International Trade Law and Arbitration Chair at Istanbul Bilgi University Faculty of Law. She initially practiced as an attorney in the field of international arbitration. She then undertook postgraduate studies on European Law at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium followed by doctoral studies at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy where she completed her PhD on International Trade Law as a recipient of the grant awarded by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She has worked for the Academy of European Law at the European University Institue and has spent periods as a visiting research scholar at the University of Michigan Law School in Ann Arbor, USA and as a trainee at the DG Internal Market of the European Commission in Brussels and as an intern at the Appellate Body Secretariat of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva. Her research and teaching interests lie in the fields of International Economic Law, International Investment Law, Arbitration and EU Competition and Trade Laws. Dr ARTIRAN has been awarded by the WTO to hold the WTO Chair in May 2014. She acted as a legal expert for the study on the revision of Türkiye-EU Customs Union agreement commissioned by the European Commission, provided written evidence to the House of Lords of the UK Parliament and appeared before the International Trade and Exiting the EU Committees of the UK Parliament and provided oral evidence on the state of play related to the Türkiye-EU Customs Union and the future of Türkiye-UK trade relations. From April 2017 to May 2018, she was an of counsel to BASEAK Law Firm (Dentons Istanbul) in the field of international trade law. She also acted as a senior legal adviser to the Minister of Trade of the Republic of Türkiye and a legal consultant to the Turkish Exporters Assembly from September 2018 to May 2021. Dr Artiran is a regular speaker on topics relating to international trade, WTO, investment, EU law including the Brexit process, Türkiye-UK FTA and also a regular commentator for BloombergHT Türkiye.
