Susy Frankel, FRSNZ, is a professor of law and the chair of intellectual property and international trade law at Victoria University of Wellington. After practising law in New Zealand and the United Kingdom, in 1997 Susy joined Victoria University of Wellington’s Faculty of Law and in 2008 was the first woman promoted to full professor in the faculty. She assisted then Chief Judge Joe Williams and the Tribunal panel as consulting counsel in their inquiry into the Wai 262 claim. From 2008 to 2020, she was chair of the Copyright Tribunal and from 2015 to 2017 she was the president of the International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property. She has been the co-director of the University’s New Zealand Centre of International Economic Law since its foundation in 2007. She has taught in several law schools abroad, including in 2020 as a global professor at New York University’s School of Law. Her scholarship focuses on international intellectual property and its nexus with the protection of indigenous peoples’ knowledge and innovation and on the relationship between intellectual property and international trade. In 2018, she was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. Professor Frankel was appointed to the Tribunal in 2020.