Mislav Mataija is a Member of the Legal Service of the European Commission, where he mainly deals with WTO and trade policy issues. He holds degrees from the European University Institute (PhD in Law, 2013), Columbia Law School (LLM, 2009), and the University of Zagreb (LLB, 2007). During his PhD studies he has conducted research at the School of Law at King's College London. Previously, he worked as a lecturer at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Law, where he taught and researched broadly in EU law, including internal market law and competition law, as well as WTO law. He has also worked as a legal expert at the European University Institute's Centre for Judicial Cooperation, and at the Court of Justice of the European Union (stagiaire, chambers of Judge Ilesic). He has published broadly on EU constitutional, internal market, and competition law and has acted on three occasions as FIDE (International Federation for European Law) national rapporteur for various EU law topics.