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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Dominique Hascher
Member

Judge Dominique Hascher

Independent Arbitrator Former Judge at the French Supreme Judicial Court Dominique Hascher is currently an independent arbitrator after sitting on the Bench of the Supreme Judicial Court of France for the past 13 years. He is also a non-resident judge of the Supreme Court of Singapore (Singapore international Commercial Court). He is a graduate of the Universities of Paris II and Harvard (Fulbright Scholar). He was Adjunct-Professor of Law at the University of Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne (2001-2015) and a Visiting Professor at University College London (Fall 2005) and at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law (Fall 2007) and lectured at the Hague Academy of International Law (1999 and 2022). He acted as General Counsel and Deputy-Secretary General of the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) from 1990 to 1998. He has experience in ICC (President), CAS-Court of Arbitration for Sports (Sole Arbitrator) and ICSID (Chair and Member) arbitration. He has been designated as Appointing Authority by the PCA-Permanent Court of Arbitration (UNCITRAL Rules). He is on the panel of arbitrators of the Hong-Kong International Arbitration Center. Advisory Member (2020), International Council Commercial Arbitration (ICCA) Governing Board and co-chair of the ICCA Judiciary Committee (2017-2020). President of the French Society of Comparative Law (2015-2019). He was elected Honorary Bencher of Gray's Inn (London) in 2004 and a Member of the American Law institute in 2007.