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. The composition of CRCICA’s current Board of Trustees is showed below.

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.

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Dr. Khaled El Shalakany

Khaled El Shalakany holds degrees in engineering, management, law, and Egyptology from several universities including Cairo University, the American University in Cairo,the University of Toronto, Cambridge University, and Manchester University. As a computer systems-engineer, he was awarded the IBM Professional Excellence award in 1982. He has been practicing law since 1985 first as a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada (now the Law Society of Ontario) and then as a member of the Egyptian Lawyers Association. He is the Managing Partner of Shalakany Law Office which was established in 1912 and is one of the leading law firms in the Region. He is a registered arbitrator with the Cairo Regional Center for International Commercial Arbitration and the Egyptian Ministry of Justice. He has been a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators since 1997. He has participated in various capacities in over 120 international commercial arbitrations. Apart from scholarly articles and publications in law, management, and Egyptology (for Egyptology articles visit Khaled El Shalakany (academia.edu)); he is also the author of four short story collections offered on Amazon, as well as a novel in the Egyptian vernacular. His MA dissertation (Manchester) is published on Amazon (The Mother Goddess and the King: The Origins of the Symbols for the Divine Feminine, the Powerful Male, and Rulership Ideology in Ancient Egypt). He is the principal founder and ex-Chairman of the Egyptian ADR Association that is pioneering the application in Egypt of mediation for the settlement of business disputes. He is a founding member of the Egyptian Social Democratic Party. Khaled El Shalakany has created and continues to manage and edit www.thaqafni.net a site in the Egyptian vernacular language dedicated to raising the cultural awareness of young people in Egypt and other countries in the Middle East