Dr. Abdel  Raouf is an Attorney at law and Partner at Abdel Raouf Law Firm in Cairo, Egypt. He is the former Director of the Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (CRCICA; 2012-2016) and an Associate Professor at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He specializes in international commercial arbitration and ADR as well as in commercial contracts, investment agreements, construction, real estate, and sports-related disputes.

 

Dr. Abdel  Raouf is a holder of a Ph.D. in Private Law (with the distinction très honorable avec les félicitations du jury) from the University of Montpellier I, France (topic of his thesis was “The International Arbitrator and State Contracts”). Prior to this, he obtained a Diploma, DEA en Droit des Contrats d'Affaires, from Montpellier Business Law School, University of Montpellier I, France as well as a LL.M. in International Business Law from the Institute of International Business Law (IDAI), Cairo University.

 

He has acted as sole arbitrator, co-arbitrator and chairman of arbitral tribunals in numerous domestic and international commercial arbitrations (institutional and ad hoc). He has also acted as counsel, for private and public entities, including the Egyptian government, in many international commercial and investment arbitrations. His arbitration experience covers a wide range of arbitration rules including those of CRCICA, UNCITRAL, ICC, AAA, ICSID, PCA, DIAC, CAS, GCC, ADCCAC, and the BCDR.

 

He is the author and co-author of several legal publications on arbitration in Arabic, English and French. He has also spoken at several international conferences and seminars. He is a member of the Governing Board of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration  (ICCA), a member of the Board of the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC), the former Vice President of the International Federation of Commercial Arbitration Institutions (IFCAI), a CEDR Accredited Mediator, a Resource Person in International Investment Agreements and Investment Disputes at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), an Expert in ISDS, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), an Arbitrator listed on the Panel of Arbitrators of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), an Approved Faculty List Tutor and Assessor at the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb), a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Arab Arbitration issued by the Arab Union of International Arbitration, as well as the Advisory Board of the International Arbitration Review issued by the Bahrain Chamber for Dispute Resolution (BCDR), in addition to being one of the founders of the Egyptian Arbitration Forum (EAF).