Professor Andrew Christie

Overview

Andrew Christie was the foundation appointment to the Chair of Intellectual Property in 2002.

He holds BSc and LLB (Hons) degrees from the University of Melbourne, a LLM from the University of London, and a PhD from the University of Cambridge. Admitted to legal practice in Australia and the United Kingdom, he has worked in the intellectual property departments of law firms in Melbourne and London. He is a former Fulbright Senior Scholar, and has held research and teaching appointments at the University of Cambridge, Duke University, the National University of Singapore, and the University of Toronto. He was appointed a Fellow of Queen’s College, University of Melbourne, in 2025.

He has served on all of the Australian government’s advisory committees on intellectual property – the Copyright Law Review Committee, the Advisory Council on Intellectual Property, and the Plant Breeder’s Rights Advisory Committee – and has been an expert advisor to World Intellectual Property Organization on a number of occasions. From 2023-2025 he was Chair of the Trans-Tasman IP Attorneys Board, the regulator of the Australian and New Zealand patent attorney profession.

A trained arbitrator and mediator, he has accepted appointments to resolve intellectual property and related commercial disputes from a range of institutions, including the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center, the ICC International Center for ADR, Resolution Institute, and the National Sports Tribunal.

Awarded 12 Australian Research Council grants and instrumental in winning other research funding in excess of $11 million, he has authored more than 120 publications, and delivered by invitation more than 180 public addresses in 20 countries, across all areas of intellectual property law.

Memberships and affiliations

• Australian Institute of Company Directors (Graduate)
• Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Fellow)
• Institute of Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys of Australia (Member)
• Intellectual Property Society of Australia and New Zealand (Member)
• Resolution Institute (Practitioner Member)