Evan Williams is a senior director on the Alibaba Group’s Global Intellectual Property Enforcement Team, based in Washington, D.C. Mr. Williams recently retired as senior counsel from the U.S. Department of Justice (U.S. DOJ) Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS), also in Washington, D.C., where he prosecuted intellectual property and cybercrime offenses. From 2016-2021, Mr. Williams was posted at the U.S. Consulate General in Hong Kong, serving a long-term detail as U.S. DOJ’s international computer hacking and intellectual property attorney-advisor for Asia, where he acquired his Chinese name, 韋義榮. Before joining CCIPS, Mr. Williams served as an assistant united states attorney in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, and before joining U.S. DOJ, as an assistant district attorney in the New York County District Attorney’s Office. Mr. Williams is a graduate of Harvard College and Columbia Law School.