Biography
Chair of Private International law and Professor of International Arbitration at Cairo University, Founding Partner and Head of International Arbitration at Zulficar & Partners Law Firm, Vice President of the ICC International Court of Arbitration, Member of the SIAC’s African Users’ Council Committee, Member of the Advisory Council of Africa Arbitration, Member of the LCIA Court of Arbitration, Member of the Advisory Committee of the CRCICA, Member of the CIMAC Court of Arbitration, Member of AAA-ICDR International Advisory Committee, Member of CIArb’s Board of Management and Practice and Standards Committee, President of the CIArb’s Egypt branch, Associate fellow of the Centre of Private International Law at Aberdeen University, and Fellow of the Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution, University of Massachusetts. He is also Vice-President of the IBA Arbitration Committee, Committee Officer of the IBA Arab Regional Forum, Member of the Board of Advisors of Arbitrator Intelligence, Fellow of the Shanghai University of Political Science and Law (SHUPL), China, International Expert Member of the Permanent Forum of China Construction Law, Member of the Editorial Board of the ClArb’s Arbitration Journal, Co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Online Dispute Resolution (IJODR), Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Enforcement of Arbitration Awards, Member of the Editorial Board of the IBA Journal of Construction Law International, and Co-Editor of the leading treatise on entitled ‘Online Dispute Resolution: Theory and Practice’ (2012), which received the CPR Award for the Best Published Dispute Resolution Work (2013).
