Mark Sidel is Doyle-Bascom Professor of Law and Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a specialist in civil society, philanthropic and nonprofit institutions. He has served as Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, Melbourne Law School, Institut d'études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po, in the "chaire Asie") and other institutions. He is author of five books, editor/co-editor of four other volumes, and author of many academic and professional articles. Sidel has served as consultant/advisor to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL), World Bank, Asian Development Bank, the Ford Foundation, Asia Foundation, Vietnamese Ministry of Justice, American Bar Association (ABA) and other organizations. Earlier he served in program positions with the Ford Foundation in Asia,on the team that established Ford's office in Beijing in the late 1980s and as program officer for law and governance in Beijing; establishing and directing the Foundation's programs in Vietnam; and developing a regional program on philanthropy in South Asia. Sidel earlier worked at the Baker & McKenzie law firm in Asia and the United States. He speaks Chinese and reads Vietnamese.