DR. RAJESH SHARMA is currently teaching at the RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. Before that he was Assistant Professor at School of Law, City University of Hong Kong.

Dr. Sharma has taught courses on arbitration, mediation, negotiation, foreign investment arbitration, WTO Law, international trade, banking law, foreign investment in Hong Kong, Macao, India, Australia, China and Africa (where he is associated with the Institute for Legal Excellence in Uganda).

He has served as the Legal Advisor to the Macau University of Science and Technology. Dr. Sharma is the Associate Director of the Hong Kong WTO Research Institute, a member of Asian WTO Research Network; a panel arbitrator of Korean Commercial Arbitration Board (KCAB), a member and secretary of Hong Kong Basic Law Education Association. Dr. Sharma has been appointed as the Executive Committee member of the Commonwealth Legal Education Association and an elected Associate Member of Academy of Comparative Law.

He has publications in the areas of WTO law, international trade, arbitration and dispute resolution, commercial law, and banking law. Recently he has published a book with Wolters Kluwer titled “Dispute Settlement Mechanism in the FTAs of Asia”.