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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Prof. Dr. Mohamed Abdel Raouf

Dr. Mohamed Abdel Raouf is Partner and Head of the International Arbitration Group at ABDEL RAOUF LAW FIRM, Cairo-Egypt. He is the former Director of the Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (CRCICA) and an Associate Professor at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He specializes in international arbitration and ADR as well as in commercial contracts, investment agreements, construction, real estate and sports-related disputes.

His arbitration experience as arbitrator and counsel covers a wide range of arbitration Rules including those of CRCICA, UNCITRAL, ICC, LCIA, ICSID, PCA, ICDR, DIAC, CAS, DIFC- LCIA, GCC, ADCCAC and the BCDR.

Dr. Abdel Raouf is a holder of a Ph.D. in private law from the University of Montpellier I, France. Topic of thesis was «The International Arbitrator and State Contracts» (Published).

Dr. Abdel Raouf is a member of the Advisory Board and former Vice President of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA), Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees and member of the Advisory Committee of the CRCICA, Egypt’s Alternate Member of the ICC International Court of Arbitration, Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA), an Arbitrator listed in the Panel of Arbitrators of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), a Conciliator designated by the President of the World Bank Group to serve on the Panel of Conciliators maintained by the ICSID, a CEDR Accredited Mediator, Chairman of the Egypt Branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb), a member of the Arbitration Committee of the Lagos Court of Arbitration (LCA) and a member of the Board of Directors of the Saudi Center for Commercial Arbitration (SCCA).

Dr. Abdel Raouf is ranked by Chambers and Partners in its Global Rankings among the “most in demand” and “top arbitrators” in Egypt being “a star practitioner with an exceptional and diverse expertise in arbitration and international disputes.”