Thomas K. Cheng

Thomas Cheng is a professor at the University of Hong Kong. He has written extensively on competition law in developing countries and on the competition law of a number of Asian jurisdictions, including Hong Kong, China, and Japan. In 2020, he published Competition Law in Developing Countries, the first comprehensive monograph on the topic, with Oxford University Press. In 2021, he published The Patent-Competition Interface in Developing Countries, again the first comprehensive monograph on the topic, with Oxford University Press. In 2022, he was named by Global Competition Review, a leading competition law publication, as one of the 25 most influential antitrust academics in the world. In 2023, his article co-authored with Julian Nowag received the Best Unilateral Conduct article from the prestigious Concurrences Antitrust Writing Award. He assisted the Hong Kong government in drafting the city’s first competition law and was a founding member of the Hong Kong Competition Commission.