2011 WCO IT Conference and Exhibition


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Before retiring in July 2008, William J. Luddy, Jr. was a Professor of Management in the Lally School of Management and Technology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute for 34 years and former Dean of the Graduate School of Management at Rensselaer’s Hartford Campus.

Professor Luddy works extensively on the development of global E-Commerce law and policy in the areas of international business, trade facilitation, and on a variety of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) law including, among others, privacy. He is a member of the U.S. Secretary of State’s Advisory Committee on Private International Law (AC/PIL) where he has provided commentary on the global legal infrastructure of the international trade Single Window, the future of global electronic commerce including issues related to ICT legal infrastructure development, information security, commercial law, data privacy, and capacity building related to SMEs in developing and transition economy countries.

Since 2002, he has been a member of the United States and the American Bar Association (ABA) Delegations to Working Group IV of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) where he participated in the negotiation of the United Nations Convention on the Use of Electronic Communications in International Contracts (referred to as the UN Electronic Communications Convention.) He frequently participates in UNCITRAL’s high-level Expert Group meetings and has been a legal consultant to the UNCITRAL Secretariat. Professor Luddy was also named by the U.S. as an international legal expert for the United Nations Centre for Electronic Business and Trade Facilitation (UN/CEFACT) where he chaired UN/CEFACT’s project to develop UN Recommendation 35 - Legal Framework for an International Trade Single Window. Further, he works with the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN/ESCAP) on various legal issues related to ICT.
In addition to United Nations organizations, he advises various regional Inter-Governmental Organizations (IGOs) on private international law matters related to global electronic commerce and other legal matters. Professor Luddy currently works with the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) organization on its Pathfinder Cross-Border Data Privacy project. He has also worked with APEC’s Sub Committee on Customs Procedures (SCCP) Single Window Working Group Workshop. He spoke on international Single Window legal standards in international texts adopted and being developed at UN/ECE/CEFACT, UNCITRAL, and the WCO.

The World Customs Organization (WCO) appointed Mr. Luddy as Special Legal Counsel in 2008. His work focuses on a number of ICT law areas of importance to the WCO. In 2008 he was the WCO’s Delegate to the UNCITRAL Plenary where he discussed the intersection of the work of the WCO and UNCITRAL on the legal aspects of the international Single Window and global supply chain networks. Professor Luddy is also the senior legal advisor for the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) Single Window development project and its Legal and Regulatory Working Group.

His research, teaching, publications and legal practice interests include e-Business and Information Technology law, global eCommerce policy, corporate governance and responsibility, business strategy and sustainable development, intellectual property rights, information security/critical information infrastructure protection, and cross-border data privacy. He has also taught international law and business, employment law, business law, regulatory law, marketing strategy, finance, economics, organizational strategy and business policy.

Professor Luddy holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Connecticut School of Law, an M.S. degree in Management from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a B.S. degree in Finance from Fairfield University. He is admitted to practice law before the U.S. courts in the State of Connecticut, the U.S. Federal District Court for the District of Connecticut, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C.