Tu Thanh Nguyen (Nguyễn Thanh Tú), Doctor of Laws, is Director General of the Department of Civil and Economic Laws, Ministry of Justice of Vietnam. He was Deputy Director General of the Department of International Law, Ministry of Justice of Vietnam; Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, Lund University, Sweden; Lecturer at Ho Chi Minh City School of Law; Trainee at the Intellectual Property Division of the WTO (Geneva, Switzerland); Scholarship Holder at Max Plank Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law (Munich, Germany); Visiting Researcher at Suffolk University School of Law (Boston, USA) and Faculty of Law, Copenhagen University (Denmark). He has published numerous articles and books on competition law, intellectual property rights, international trade law, and civil law.