Mark Wu is one of the three new faculty members to teach at Harvard Law School.. He is an expert on international trade and intellectual property law. Wu, currently an academic fellow at Columbia Law School, is co-author of The Law of the World Trade Organization.
A 2007 graduate of Yale Law School, Wu served as a researcher and project coordinator at Yale's China Law Center and was a clerk for Judge Pierre Legal of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He worked at McKinsey & Company and, from 1998 to 1999, was an economist and operations officer for the World Bank in Beijing, where he advised the government of China. He was also an economist for the United Nations Development Programme in Namibia.
Wu graduated with an A.B. in social studies and east Asian studies from Harvard College. He holds a diploma in Japanese studies from Kyoto University and a M.Sc. in development economics from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar.