The IFCAI Council held a meeting on 17 November 2014 on the occasion of the Sharm El-Sheikh V Conference on the Role of State Courts in International Arbitration. The meeting was attended by Diana Droulers, IFCAI President, Stefano Azzali (Secretary-Treasurer), Annette Magnusson and Mohamed Abdel Raouf (Vice Presidents) as well as Nassib Ziadé (Councillor). The following arbitral institutions were therefore represented in the meeting: Arbitration Centre of the Chamber of Commerce of Caracas, the Chamber of Arbitration of Milan, the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC), the Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (CRCICA) and the Bahrain Chamber for Dispute Resolution (BCDR-AAA). Among the matters on the meeting’s agenda was the prepration of the forthcoming IFCAI Biennial Conference scheduled to take place in Bahrain on 23 March 2014 as well as the launch of the new IFCAI website.