Prof. Gustav Brink is a specialist in international trade law issues, with particular emphasis on trade remedies. He is also a lecturer in international trade law at the University of Pretoria in South Africa and a research associate of the Trade Law Centre of Southern Africa. He has been involved in more than 100 antidumping, countervailing and safeguard investigations and reviews relating to various jurisdictions, including Argentina, Canada, the European Union, Malaysia, New Zealand, Pakistan and South Africa. He holds an LLD (doctorate in law), based on a comparison of the anti-dumping systems of the WTO, the EC, the US and South Africa and has published widely on trade remedies, including the only textbook on the South Africa anti-dumping and countervailing system. He is currently the key expert in an EU-funded program and is responsible for the transformation of the Syrian trade legislative regime, including changes to the legislative drafting procedure, the review of various trade laws, trade remedies and SPS reform. He lives in Damascus, Syria, and Pretoria, South Africa.

Bar Admissions
South Africa (1995)

Member

• Trade Law Centre of Southern Africa
• Advocate of the High Court of South Africa (currently non-practicing)

Education

• LLD in international trade law (antidumping) at University of Pretoria
• LLB in international private law, University of Pretoria
• B Com (majoring in accountancy and financial management), University of Pretoria

Languages
English
Afrikaans
Dutch
French (basic)
Arabic (basic)