Dr. Mohamed ABDEL RAOUF
Director
m.abdelraouf@crcica.org.eg

DR. ABDEL RAOUF is the Director of the Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (CRCICA) and Lecturer on international commercial arbitration at: the Institute of International Business Law (IDAI), Cairo University- Paris I Sorbonne; the English Section of the Faculty of Law, Cairo University; and the French Section of the Faculty of Law, Ain Shams University. He is an Attorney at law (non-practicing since 2009) at Abdel Raouf Law Firm, Cairo-Egypt. He specializes in international commercial arbitration and ADR as well as in commercial, business and investment laws.


DR. ABDEL RAOUF is a holder of a Ph.D. in private law (with the distinction très honorable avec les félicitations du jury) from the University of Montpellier I, France. Topic of thesis was «The International Arbitrator and State Contracts». Prior to this, he obtained a Diploma, DEA en Droit des Contrats d'Affaires, Montpellier Business Law School, University of Montpellier I, France as well as a Master's degree in International Business Law (LL.M), Institute of International Business Law (IDAI), Cairo University.

He has acted as sole arbitrator, co-arbitrator and chairman of arbitral tribunals in numerous domestic and international commercial arbitrations (institutional and ad hoc). He has also acted as counsel, for private and public entities, including the Egyptian government, in many international commercial and investment arbitrations (under the Rules of CRCICA, UNCITRAL, ICC, AAA, ICSID, DIAC and the GCC).


He is the author and co-author of several legal publications on arbitration (in Arabic, English and French), including the Chapter on Egypt of the World Arbitration Reporter (WAR). He has also spoken at several international conferences and seminars. He is a CEDR Accredited Mediator, an elected Officer in the Council of the International Federation of Commercial Arbitration Institutions (IFCAI), an approved Tutor at the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb - London), a Resource Person in International Investment Agreements and Investment Disputes, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), an Expert in ISDS, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), an Arbitrator listed in the Panel of Arbitrators of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Arab Arbitration issued by the Arab Union of International Arbitration, in addition to being one of the founders of the Egyptian Arbitration Forum (EAF).

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