Bacchus is Adjunct Scholar of the Cato Institute, Senior Research Fellow of the Earth System Governance Project, Global Fellow of the Centre for International Governance Innovation, member of the Executive Council of the United States Chapter of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network, Distinguished Fellow of the European Institute of International Law and International Relations, Senior Fellow of the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law, Distinguished Global Fellow of the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy, and life member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is a Visiting Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law and at Wolfson College and a member of the Advisory Council of Cambridge Governance Labs of the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom.
Previously, he was a member of the High-Level Advisory Panel to the President of the Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, advising on the negotiation and content of the Paris climate agreement; Chair of the global Council on Governance for Sustainability of the World Economic Forum; and Chair of the global Commission on Trade and Investment Policy of the International Chamber of Commerce. He has been Pao Yue-Kong Chair Professor at Guanghua Law School of Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China, and is Honorary Professor at the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing, China. He has lectured at leading law schools, universities, and research institutions worldwide, and is a leading advocate and activist worldwide for international cooperation, international trade, the international rule of law, global democracy, and global sustainable development.
Bacchus is also the author of the books Trade and Freedom (Cameron May, 2004); The Willing World: Shaping and Sharing a Sustainable Global Prosperity (Cambridge University Press, 2018); The Development Dimension: Special and Differential Treatment in Trade, with co-author Inu Manak (Routledge Press, 2021); Trade Links: New Rules for a New World (Cambridge University Press, 2022), and Truth about Trade: Reflections on International Trade and Law (World Scientific Publishing, 2023). The Willing World and Trade Links received recognition as “Best Books” by the Financial Times of London in 2018 and 2022, respectively. Both were recognized as books of the year on international trade at the World Public Forum of the World Trade Organization in those same years. He is currently writing a new book – on the relationship between democracy and sustainable development – for anticipated publication in 2025.