Dr. Pinar Artiran is a Faculty Member in Private International Law, WTO Chair Holder and Director of the Research Center for International Trade Law and Arbitration at Istanbul Bilgi University Faculty of Law.

She has worked for the Academy of European Law at the EUI and has spent periods as a visiting research scholar at the University of Michigan Law School in Ann Arbor, USA and as a trainee at the DG Internal Market of the European Commission in Brussels and as an intern at the Appellate Body Secretariat of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva. Her research and teaching interests lie in the fields of International Economic Law, International Investment Law, Arbitration and EU Competition and Trade Laws. Among other universities and colleges, she also taught as professor in the LL.M Programme on International Economic Law and Policy (IELPO) of University of Barcelona, as a senior fellow at The Melbourne Law Masters of Melbourne Law School and Professor at Master of International Economic Law at the University of Toulouse.