Stefan Bechtold: Short biography

Stefan Bechtold is associate professor of intellectual property at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. At ETH, he is a member of the Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (D-GESS) and an associated professor in the Department of Management, Technology, and Economics (D-MTEC). Stefan Bechtold is a graduate of the University of Tübingen School of Law, Germany, and of Stanford Law School (JSM 2002). From 2005 to 2008, he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods in Bonn, Germany. He has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of California at Berkeley School of Law (1999, 2000), the University of Amsterdam’s Institute for Information Law (2005), and the University of Munich School of Management (2009), as well as a Visiting Professor at the University of Haifa Faculty of Law (2010). He will return to the University of California at Berkeley School of Law in 2013 as a Senior Visiting Scholar, and will be a Global Visiting Professor at the New York University School of Law in 2014. Stefan Bechtold is a member of the foundation board of the Study Center Gerzensee (a foundation of the Swiss National Bank), where he is involved in the organization of law & economics courses for doctoral students. He is also a member of the Academic Advisory Board of the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, advising the ministry on all issues of economic policy. His research interests include intellectual property, law and technology, telecommunications law, and antitrust law, as well as law & economics. In his youth, Mr. Bechtold composed numerous orchestral and chamber music works which have been awarded several composition prizes and have been repeatedly performed and broadcast.