Beichen Ding

Beichen Ding is a first-year PhD student in law at the World Trade Institute, under the supervision of Professor Dr. Peter Van den Bossche. Her research focuses on unilateral trade measures addressing climate change.

Beichen gained her Bachelor's in law from China Foreign Affairs University in Beijing and joined the concurrent Bachelor/Master program with Geneva Graduate Institute, where she got a Master of International Law. Her interest towards international economic law and sustainable development, particularly climate change, can find its roots from the very beginning of her legal study. Her bachelor’s dissertation, which addressed the enlightenment of non-actionable subsidy to WTO subsidy reform under climate change background, has been awarded as “The Outstanding Graduation Dissertation in Beijing”. During her master’s study, she participated in the John H. Jackson Moot Court Competition. Her team qualified for the Global Round of the competition, and she won the “best orator” award for the semi-finals in the European Round.

She has presented her paper at the Conference of the Postgraduate and Early Professionals/Academics Network of the Society of International Economic Law and the paper now is awaiting to be published. She also has experience as a legal intern with the Legal Affairs Division of the UNFCCC secretariat in Bonn, Germany and the Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration.

Beichen speaks Chinese and English and has an intermediate level of French.