CV RAOUF : The Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (CRCICA)

Dr. Mohamed ABDEL RAOUF
Deputy Director & Secretary General
m.abdelraouf@crcica.org.eg

Dr. ABDEL RAOUF is currently the Deputy Director and Secretary-General of the Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (CRCICA). He specializes in international commercial arbitration and ADR as well as in commercial, business and investment laws. He is a partner at Abdel Raouf Law Firm, Cairo-Egypt 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.

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 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 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 International Investment Policy, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), 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).

Back to Staff page