Board of Trustees (BoT)

CRCICA has a Board of Trustees (BoT) consisting of ten (10) members at least and thirty (30) members at the most appointed in consultation with AALCO from amongst eminent African and Asian personalities specialized in the fields of international arbitration, law, business, trade, investment and international relations.

The BoT may include up to 20% of its members from outside the Afro-Asian Region from amongst figures specialized in the aforementioned fields. CRCICA’s current Board of Trustees is composed of 23 members chaired by Dr. Nabil Elaraby and will include two vice-chairmen yet to be elected and 21 other eminent members from Bahrain, Cameroon, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Kuwait, Lebanon, Nigeria, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, United Arab Emirates.

The term of the BoT is four years, which may be renewed once for a similar term, unless otherwise determined due to special circumstances. The BoT carries out the functions provided for in the By-laws of the Board of Trustees. This includes meeting once a year to oversee CRCICA’s caseload and in particular the following functions:

  1. Appointing the Director of the Centre in consultation with AALCO for a four-year term, which may be renewed once for a similar term, unless otherwise determined due to special circumstances;
  2.  Setting down the general policy for achieving the objectives of the Centre; and
  3. Ratifying the Auditor’s report for each fiscal year.

Chairman

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Dr. Nabil Elaraby

Biography

Members

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Mr. Michael E. Schneider

Michael E. Schneider is a founding partner of LALIVE. He has practised in international arbitration for more than 35 years as counsel in ad hoc proceedings and under various rules, including those of the ICC, ICSID, Swiss Rules, Stockholm Institute, the Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (CRCICA), European Development Fund, UNCITRAL, and before other international bodies, including the WTO Appellate Body and the United Nations Compensation Commission. He has also acted as arbitrator (chair, sole or co-arbitrator) under the rules of many institutions both in Switzerland and abroad. He is listed on the panels of arbitrators of the Swiss national committee of the ICC.

Michael E. Schneider’s main areas of practice are disputes involving States and multinational corporations in construction, industrial engineering and infrastructure projects, natural resources (in particular oil and gas), pharmaceuticals and telecommunications. He has specific experience in managing large and complex disputes, organising and leading teams of specialists from different fields
and different legal and cultural backgrounds.

Michael E. Schneider is president of the Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA). He is also the vice chair of the ICC Commission on Arbitration, and has been a member of several of its working groups (1998 and 2009 revisions of the ICC rules, construction, pre-arbitral referee). He has been chairing the UNCITRAL WG II (Arbitration) on the revision of the Arbitration Rules since 2006 and is a member of the executive committee of the Dubai International Arbitration Centre (DIAC). The academic assignments of Michael E. Schneider include Director of Studies at the Centre for Studies and Research at the Hague Academy of International Law (Transnational Arbitration and State Contracts). He graduated from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva and is a former AIESEC trainee with the Shell Company in Sierra Leone. Michael E. Schneider studied law and history at the universities of Munich, Bonn and Geneva.