Claudio Dordi is Technical Assistance Team Leader of the EU-Vietnam Multilateral Trade Assistance Project and Professor of International Law and former Director of the PhD Program in International Law and Economics at Bocconi University, Milan. In the context of the EU-MUTRAP, since 2008 he has been leading a task force of more than six hundred experts to promote the integration of Vietnam in the world economic, trade and investment community. He has been visiting professorial fellow at Georgetown Law School in 2002 and 2003 and at a several universities in South America, Europe and Asia. In his experience, he has often combined the academic research with the applied research within the main international organizations (i.e. GATT and then WTO, World Bank, IMF, UNCTAD, WCO, EU and APEC). Prof. Dordi has authored more than eighty publications, mainly on matters of international private and public law and economics, EU law and economics, world trade law and monetary law.