Peter van den Bossche (born 1959) is a professor of international economic law at the University of Bern (World Trade Institute).

[8] With the end of his formal appointment at the end of 2017, US-driven delays in appointing his replacement alongside US blocking of other key WTO vacancies has meant a growing crisis for the WTO-based multilateral trading system.

[9][10] The election of van den Bossche (an outgoing WTO judge) as SIEL president is considered by some a sign of both defiance to economic nationalism and support for the rules-based multilateral system.

From 1990 to 1992, he worked as référendaire at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg and, from 1997 to 2001, as senior legal advisor to the WTO Appellate Body in Geneva.

He also holds a Licence en Droit magna cum laude from the University of Antwerp and an LL.M.