Gert Straetmans is full professor at the faculty of law of the University of Antwerp. He teaches European economic, consumer and commercial law. He served as Dean of the Law Faculty (2008-2012) and is a member of the Research Group on the Existing EC Private Law (Acquis Group). He was the Belgian expert involved in the European Consumer Compendium Group (2006-2013), and participated as senior expert in various research projects financed by the European Commission (most recently the update of the Consumer Law Database). He is senior fellow of the Zentrum für Europäische Integrationsforschung, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität zu Bonn, associate-member of the International Academy of Comparative Law and a member of the European Law Institute, Vienna. He has a longstanding expertise in commercial/economic law, competition law, European substantive law and (European) consumer law. He lectured at the Universities of Bonn, Hong Kong, Leyden, Pretoria and Toulouse I Capitole. He is the author of numerous publications in the fields of EU Law and Belgian Commercial and Consumer Law.