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Angela Huyue Zhang is an associate professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Hong Kong. An expert in Chinese law, Angela has written extensively on Chinese regulatory issues. She is the author of “Chinese Antitrust Exceptionalism: How the Rise of China Challenges Global Regulation” published by the Oxford University Press in March 2021. The book examines how Chinese exceptionalism—as manifested in the way China regulates and is regulated, is reshaping global antitrust regulation.
Angela’s timely new book is garnering significant media attention, especially in light of Beijing’s recent crackdown on Chinese Big Tech. More than twenty international media outlets have featured Angela’s book and her commentaries, including the Economist, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and Bloomberg. Her book has also appeared in various TV programs and documentaries, as well as many podcasts and blogs.

Angela is a four-time recipient of the Concurrence Antitrust Writing Award, which selects the best articles published globally in the field of antitrust law each year. Angela frequently speaks at prestigious antitrust conferences in the United States, Europe, and Asia. And she regularly contributes commentaries to popular press including Project Syndicate, Nikkei Asia Review and Bloomberg.

Angela has broad research interests in the areas of law and economics, particularly in transnational legal issues bearing on businesses. She is currently working on a few projects pertaining to platform governance and regulation, trade and investment, as well as the Chinese political economy. She received a British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant (£10,000) in 2014 and two Hong Kong GRF grants, one (HK$637,440) in 2018 and the other (HK$ 656,825) in 2021.
Angela also serves as the Director of the Centre for Chinese Law at the University of Hong Kong, which promotes legal scholarship with the aim to develop a deeper understanding of China and facilitate dialogue between East and West.
Before joining the University of Hong Kong, Angela taught at King’s College London and practiced law for six years in the United States, Europe, and Asia. She worked as a bankruptcy lawyer at Devoice & Plimpton in New York and as an antitrust attorney at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton in Brussels. Angela was admitted to the New York Bar in 2009.

Angela received her LLB from Peking University, and her LLM, JD and JSD from the University of Chicago Law School. She wrote her doctoral dissertation under the supervision of former Judge Richard A. Posner.

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Ninette Dodoo is a partner and head of the Antitrust, Competition and Trade practice of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and is based in Beijing.
Ninette spent over 10 years in Brussels advising on EU and multi-jurisdictional antitrust and foreign investment-related matters before relocating to Beijing in 2009. Ninette has extensive experience advising clients on merger control, antitrust investigations, and foreign investment review across a range of sectors including the technology, healthcare and life-sciences, consumer goods and retail, shipping and energy sectors. Ninette’s practice includes antitrust-related work in mainland China, Hong Kong and the Asia Pacific region. Ninette is ranked as a leading lawyer in legal directories for antitrust and foreign investment.
Ninette is a Co-opted Member of the European Chamber Executive Committee.

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Sara Marchetta lives and works in Beijing, China since 1997, where she practices the legal professions assisting cross-border investments between Italy and China, and became a partner of Chiomenti Law Firm (an Italian Law Firm) in 2011. She was involved in the assistance for the major Chinese investments into Italy and she regularly advises a number of Italian MNCs in their cross-border investments into China. She is also Board member of few Foreign Invested Enterprises in China.

She got university degrees in Italian Law and Chinese language and literature, and is an alumni of Peking University, Law School, where she attended an advanced learning program in Chinese law.

She has been the National Vice-president of the China-Italy Chamber of Commerce (2010-2014) and of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China (2014-2017) and she is now the Chair of the Legal and Competition Working Group at the European Chamber. She is also the Cochair of the Cross Border Investment Committee of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association.