Mohamed Abdel Raouf

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Job Title: Partner and Head of the international Arbitration Group

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DR. ABDEL RAOUF is an Egyptian Attorney at law, Partner and Head of the international Arbitration Group at ABDEL RAOUF LAW FIRM, Cairo-Egypt. He is the former Director of the Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (CRCICA [2012-2016]) and an Associate Professor at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He specializes in international arbitration and ADR as well as in commercial contracts, investment agreements, construction, real estate and sports-related disputes.

He has acted as sole arbitrator, co-arbitrator and chairman of arbitral tribunals in numerous domestic and international arbitrations (institutional and ad hoc).
He is a member of the Governing Board and former Vice President of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA), Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees and member of the Advisory Committee of the CRCICA, Egypt’s Alternate Member of the ICC International Court of Arbitration, Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA), an Arbitrator listed in the Panel of Arbitrators of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), a Conciliator designated by the President of the World Bank Group to serve on the Panel of Conciliators maintained by the ICSID, a CEDR Accredited Mediator, Chairman of the Egypt Branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb), an Approved Faculty List Tutor and Assessor at the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb), a member of the Arbitration Committee of the Lagos Court of Arbitration (LCA), a member of the Board of Directors of the Saudi Center for Commercial Arbitration (SCCA), former member of the Board of the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC), former Vice President, the International Federation of Commercial Arbitration Institutions (IFCAI), a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Arab Arbitration issued by the Arab Union of International Arbitration.