Dr Waleed El Nemr, PhD, LLM, MSc, BSc, FCIArb Contracts Director, Hill International (Africa) Ltd. As of May 2021, Dr El Nemr has over 24 years of experience in contracts and claims management, encompassing positions in various international project management firms, such as Bechtel, Fluor Daniel and Hill International. He has also assumed several roles during dispute resolution proceedings in construction projects, acting as arbitrator, expert adjudicator, expert appointed by the tribunal, expert appointed by an arbitration party, arbitrator and dispute adjudication board (DAB) member. He is country representative (Egypt) of the Dispute Board Resolution Foundation, Vice President of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators – Egypt Branch, Vice President of the Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering – Greater Cairo section. He is the author of numerous papers and a speaker in numerous conferences, seminars and webinars on the topic of construction contracts and claims. He is currently the Contracts Director of Hill International’s Africa branch, based in Egypt and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at The American University in Cairo.

Dr Engy Serag Executive Director - Contracts and Claims at Orascom Construction Adjunct Faculty at the American University in Cairo Dr Engy Serag is the Executive Director of Contracts and Claims at Orascom Construction, and is an Adjunct Faculty at the American University in Cairo. She got her PhD in Civil Engineering from University of Central Florida and has several publications in relations to the construction contracts and claims management. Dr Serag is a member of the Industrial Advisory Board of the Construction Engineering Department at the American University in Cairo as well as other professional entities. She masters claims management, FIDIC contracts interpretation and delivers several trainings in the delay claims, loss of productivity and Egyptian Civil Code in relation to Construction. She is currently enrolled in the Executive Masters of Law in London School of Economics and Political Science. She is a member of the CIArb and registered arbitrator in the Egyptian ministry of Justice and Cairo Regional Center for International Commercial Arbitration.