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Biography

Professor Dr Nayla Comair-Obeid, founding partner of Obeid Law Firm, heads the firm's dispute resolution practice. She is professor of international commercial arbitration at the Lebanese University and formerly taught alternative dispute resolution at the Lebanese Judicial Institute. She chaired the board of trustees of the CIArb in 2014 and was the President of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) in 2017. She regularly serves as counsel and arbitrator in Arabic, French and English-language arbitrations conducted both ad hoc and under a variety of International Arbitration Rules. In August 2018, Prof. Comair-Obeid was appointed as a member of China's International Commercial Expert Committee of the Supreme People's Court.