Marina Timoteo Of counsel Profile and experiences Marina Timoteo teaches Private Comparative Law, Asian Law and Law and Business in China at the University of Bologna. She has been Visiting professor at Renmin University, Chuo University-Tokyo, China University of Political Science and Law. She has served as expert in EU-China Cooperation Programs (amongst which the “EU-China Project for the Protection of Intellectual Property Rights/IPR 2”, implemented by the European Patent Office) and took part, as local coordinator, in international research and cooperation networks (amongs which “EU-China environmental governance programme ” in 2012-2014 and Jean Monnet Network on EU-China Legal and Judicial Cooperation -EUPLANT in 2018-2022. She currently coordinates the Jean Monnet Module 2023-2026 “ReLaTe – Law and Business in China in the Framework of EU and China Investments and Trade Relations: the Challeges of the Dgital-Tech Age”. Since 1998 she has been working of counsel for Italian law firms, in the field of international trade and investment relations between Europe and China.