Professor GU Minkang is currently Associate Co-Director of Academy for Applied Policy Studies and Education Futures, and Director of National Security and Legal Education Research Centre. 

He was the Dean of Faculty of Law and Head of Credit Risk Management School, Xiangtan University, Hunan, China. He was also Associated Dean of School of Law, City University of Hong Kong. He was Visiting Scholar of Ruhr University Law Department, Bochum, Germany, Visiting Professor of School of Law, Vienna University, Austria, and Visiting Research Fellow of Asian Law Institute, National University of Singapore. He was the first “Shanghai Oriental Scholar Chair Professor” of the East China University for Political Science and Law. 

He graduated from the East China University for Political Science and Law (Shanghai, PRC) and earned his LL.B in 1984 and Master of Law in 1987. He worked for the same university as a Lecturer in Law for 5 years. Subsequently in 1993, he went to the United States and successfully completed his legal study in the Willamette University College of Law and earned Doctor of Jurisprudence in 1996. When he was working at City University of Hong Kong, he went to France to continue his legal study and earned a degree in Master of European Business Law.  

He serves important positions in various institutions. He is Council Member of the Chinese Association of Hong Kong & Macao Studies, Member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (Hubei Committee), Vice Director of the Hong Kong WTO Research Institute and Executive Director of Hong Kong Basic Law Education Association.  

In addition, he is Arbitrator of various institutions including China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission and Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration (Shenzhen Arbitration Commission). He is recently appointed as the Honorary President of the Academy of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Joint Mediation Limited. 

His has wide research interests such as Comparative Company Law, Comparative Competition Law, Social Credit Law and Criminal Justice. Some of his published books include: WTO Anti-dumping Law (Beijing University Press, 2005), Police’s Arrest and Seizure: American Experiences (the Law Press, Beijing, 2010), Tort Law in China (co-authored, Sweet & Maxwell, 2013), Understanding Chinese Company Law (Hong Kong University Press, 2016), Antitrust Law and Practice in China and Hong Kong (Wolters Kluwer, 2016), General Introduction to Social Credit Law (Chief Editor, Beijing China Planning Publishing House, 2021). He has published more than 90 professional articles (in English and Chinese) domestically and internationally.