Frederick Mostert

Professor of Practice
London Law Programme

Frederick is a Professor of Practice at The Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London. He is also a Research Fellow at the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre, University of Oxford and Extraordinary Professor at the Law Faculty of the University of Stellenbosch. In addition, Frederick served as a Fellow at the London School of Economics Law Faculty, a Visiting Professor at the Law School of University College London, a Guest Professor at Peking University Law Faculty, and a Fellow at the Law School of Tsinghua University.

He received a ‘Rising Star’ Teaching Excellence Award from King’s for 2017-18 and a King’s Education Award for ‘Expanding Opportunities’ in 2021. Frederick was also inducted into the Intellectual Property Hall of Fame in 2015, which honours those who have helped to establish intellectual property as one of the key business assets of the 21st century. Frederick is a founder of the Digital Scholarship Institute and the Digital Communities Lab. He is also a co-developer of the international Unicode "Troll" emoji.

Frederick is a Past President of the International Trademark Association and is currently the President of the Luxury Law Alliance. He served as Chief Intellectual Property Counsel and Chief Legal Counsel of Richemont, which includes Cartier, Van Cleef and Arpels, Alfred Dunhill, and Chloe.

Frederick served in various capacities with the World Intellectual Property Organization (a United Nations Agency in Geneva) including as a member of the Industry Advisory Committee, a member of the Domain Name Panel of Experts, and a member of the Domain Name Arbitration Centre. In addition, he was a member of the Advisory Board of the European Union Intellectual Property Office and the McCarthy Institute for Intellectual Property at the University of San Francisco.

His opinion pieces have been featured in the Financial Times and the South China Morning Post.

Some of Frederick’s most notable pro bono legal assistance has been provided to President Nelson Mandela (South Africa) and the Shaolin Monks (China).

He is Of Counsel at Bird & Bird. He is also a member of the New York Bar and a solicitor of England and Wales. He has practised corporate law at Shearman and Sterling (New York) and international intellectual property law at Fross Zelnick Lehrman & Zissu in New York. Frederick has an LLM from Columbia University School of Law in New York and an LLD from the University of Johannesburg.