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Dr. Dalia Hussein is the deputy Director of CRCICA, an Adjunct Professor at the Law Department at the American University in Cairo. Before joining the Centre, she was a practicing lawyer at Hafez, an international arbitration law firm based in Cairo where she represented states and private parties in complex commercial, construction and investment disputes before many institutions including, ICSID, CRCICA, the ICC and DIAC. She also taught Business and Contract Law at the French and British universities in Egypt and International Commercial Arbitration for LL.M students at the French Section of the Faculty of Law- Ain Shams University. She was a visiting scholar at Lyon III University in 2005 and worked as an external legal expert for Arab and Islamic laws at the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law. She holds a Maîtrise en Droit from Paris I-Pantheon-Sorbonne University, an LL.B. from Cairo University (2000), an LL.M. in International Law from Paris II-Pantheon-Assas University (2001), an LL.M in Private Law from Cairo University (2003), and a PHD in International Arbitration from Cairo University (2007).