R. Ian McEwin
Visiting Scholar Professor
National University of Singapore
Ian McEwin is a visiting scholar professor at the EW Barker Centre for Law and Business and the Centre for Banking and Finance Law in the Faculty of Law at the National University of Singapore and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics.
His research focuses on law & economics, particularly competition law, corporate law, and intellectual property. His recent work examines ASEAN competition regimes, their integration, and the role corporate law can play in promoting economic growth.
McEwin has served as an honorary professor of law at the Australian National University and founded its Centre for Law and Economics. He has been head of Competition Consulting Asia and previously held the Khazanah National Chair of Regulatory Studies at the University of Malaya. He also served as a visiting professor at the National University of Singapore and Chulalongkorn University.
In public service, he worked at Singapore’s Ministry of Trade and Industry on drafting the country’s competition-law framework and on free-trade negotiations with the United States and South Korea. He later served as assistant chief executive and chief economist of the Competition Commission of Singapore and as a member of the Singapore Copyright Tribunal. Earlier in his career, he was a senior research fellow at the Policy Studies Centre and a research affiliate advising the New Zealand Business Roundtable.
His professional distinctions include admission as a legal practitioner in the Australian Capital Territory, fellowship in the Australian Institute of Company Directors, appointment as an international arbitrator with the Thai Arbitration Institute, and life membership in the ASEAN Law Association.
He edited or co-edited several books, including “Getting the Balance Right: Intellectual Property, Competition Law and Economics in Asia,” “Competition Law in Mainland Southeast Asia,” “ASEAN Competition Law,” and “Competition Law in Singapore: Principles, Practice and Procedure.”
He earned a Ph.D. in economics and a bachelor’s in law with first-class honors from the Australian National University.
