SILKE von LEWINSKI, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich; Associate Professor, Zagreb University. Legal expert to the European Commission (eg, drafted proposal for EC Rental Rights Directive and steered it with Commission through legislative process, and was member of EC delegation at WIPO Diplomatic Conference 1996 on WCT, WPPT), and for Germany at WIPO Diplomatic Conferences on AV/Beijing Treaty and Marrakesh Treaty (2000; 2012, 2013: as Deputy Head of Delegation). Chief copyright expert to governments of CEECs and former Soviet countries under initial EC’s TA programs and later for UNDP, UN/ECE, etc. in Africa, Asia and Europe. Book publications, eg: “The WIPO Treaties on Copyright” (2nd edn 2015, with Reinbothe); “International Copyright Law and Policy” (2008), both with Chinese editions; “European Copyright Law” (2010, with MM Walter et al.; new edn. in preparation); “Copyright throughout the World” (annual updates). Frequent visiting professorships worldwide (eg, Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne; UT1 Toulouse; Univ. Melbourne; China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing; Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan). First Walter Minton Visiting Scholar, Columbia University School of Law, New York (1998); First Distinguished Visitor to the IP Research Institute of Australia (IPRIA, 2002); The Hosier Distinguished Visiting IP Scholar, DePaul University, Chicago, 2005; International IP expert in the “111-Projekt”, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan (2018-23). Membership, eg: Vice President of ALAI; President of ALAI Germany; Honorary Board Member of VG Wort.