Joost Pauwelyn is a Belgian professor of international economic law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, in Geneva, Switzerland, and co-director of the institute's Centre for Trade and Economic Integration.
[5][6] Pauwelyn was a tenured professor at Duke Law School in the United States from 2002 to 2008.
[9] He was appointed as appeal arbitrator of the World Trade Organization's Multi-Party Interim Appeal Arbitration Arrangement in the absence of a functioning Appellate Body.
[13] In 2009, the received the Francis Deák prize, awarded to a younger author for meritorious scholarship published in the American Journal of International Law for his article on non-discrimination.
[14][15] From 2015 to 2020, he was co-editor in chief of the Journal of International Economic Law.