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Biography

Mrs. Dorothy Udeme Ufot, SAN is the founding and Managing Partner of Dorothy Ufot & Co, a leading law firm in Nigeria where she heads the International Arbitration and Litigation departments of the firm. Dorothy is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK) and a Chartered Arbitrator. She is a past Member of the ICC International Court of Arbitration in Paris (2006-June 2018). Dorothy is a former global vice president of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR, and currently a member of the council of the ICC Institute of World Business Law. She is Chair of the arbitration and ADR commission of ICC Nigeria and the treasurer of ICC’s Nigeria committee. She has acted as an arbitrator in several complex high volume arbitrations in institutional and adhoc arbitrations taking place in the U.K, Europe, UAE and Africa. She is a former Vice-Chair of the Arbitration Committee of the IBA (2006-2008) and a Member of the Nominations Committee of the IBA. Dorothy is on the panel of arbitrators of the American Arbitration Association/International Centre for Dispute Resolution (AAA/ICDR), ICSID, the Korean Commercial Arbitration Board (KCAB) International, the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb), the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC), the Dubai International Arbitration Centre (DIAC), the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC), the Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration (Now, the Asian International Arbitration Centre), the Lagos Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration, the Beijing Arbitration Commission/Beijing International Arbitration Center (the BAC/BIAC), the Energy Disputes Arbitration Centre (EDAC) and the Energy Arbitrators’ List. In 2009, Dorothy was elevated to the prestigious rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) (equivalent to the English Queen’s Counsel), in recognition of her vast work in commercial litigation. She is listed in the ‘New List – Arbitrators of African Descent’. It is noteworthy that Dorothy won the prestigious award of African Arbitrator of the Year 2020 organised by the East Africa International Arbitration Conference in Nairobi, Kenya on 28th August, 2020. Dorothy is recommended as a leading expert in WWL: Commercial Arbitration (2009 to 2020) (https://whoswholegal.com/dorothy-udeme-ufot-san). She is fluent in English.