Dr. Ismail Selim is the Director of the CRCICA and Chairman of Ciarb Egypt Branch. He earned a Certificate in International Commercial Arbitration from Queen Mary University of London in 2005. In 2007, he accomplished an internship program at the ICC Court of International Arbitration. In 2009, Dr. Selim earned his PhD from Burgundy University (France). Dr. Selim started his career at the judiciary, until he joined Zulficar & Partners in 2009 where he was promoted to Partner in 2013. In May 2015, Dr. Selim joined Nour and Selim in association with Al Tamimi and Company as Partner and Head of Dispute Resolution. Dr. Selim teaches International Arbitration at IDAI and BUE. He has been constantly appointed as Presiding arbitrator, Sole Arbitrator and Co-Arbitrator and has acted as a Counsel in various ad hoc and institutional cases under various rules such as Swiss Rules, UNCITRAL, the ICC, the DIFC-LCIA, ADCCAC, BCDR and CAS. Dr. Selim provides Expert opinions on Egyptian and Libyan Laws in International Proceedings. Dr. Selim was recognized as “Leading Individual” by Legal 500. He has also published several articles in learned Egyptian and International journals and regularly speaks in international conferences in the field of arbitration and investment.

Dr. Mohamed AM Ismail currently serves as a Vice-President of the "Conseil D’État" and Judge at the Supreme Administrative Court, Egypt. He is also a visiting professor and PhD examiner at various British, Egyptian, and Arab universities with a specific focus on international states’ contracts and arbitration. Dr. Ismail has previously been a lecturer and speaker at the Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (CRCICA) and the Bahrain Chamber for Dispute Resolution (BCDR-AAA). He has served as an arbitrator in various disputes pertaining to international contracts. Most notably, Dr. Ismail is the Egyptian State Prize laureate in Academic Legal Research for the year 2011. Alongside his thirty two-years career in the Egyptian judiciary, Dr. Ismail has served as a Senior Consultant to the Kingdom of Bahrain’s ‘Legislation and Legal Opinion Commission’ and also the Kingdom’s Minister of Industry, Commerce and Tourism. He was also a senior consultant to H.E the Egyptian Minister of Petroleum (responsible for the LNG project in Idko 2000-2002) and H.E the Egyptian Minister of Trade and Industry. He has also served as senior consultant to the General Authority for Investments and Free-zones (Gafi) in Egypt. Dr. Ismail is a Member of the Comité Française De L’Arbitrage. He is also a member of the ‘Public Contracts in Legal Globalization’ research network at the Sciences Po University, Paris. Dr. Ismail is a member of the Transnational Administrative Law Network as one of the leading academic networks worldwide in the field of international states’ contracts. Dr. Ismail has authored many publications in Arabic and in English (13 monographs) pertaining to states’ contracts and international arbitration. He is, among very few Arab practitioners and academics, who widely published in the Middle East, UK with Routledge (3 monographs), in France and in Germany in addition to many articles in the worldwide top-ranked law journals.