International Investment Arbitration Lessons from Developments in the MENA Region

Biography

Mohamed A.M. Ismail is a Vice-President of the Egyptian State Council (Conseil d’Etat), Judge at the Court of Appeal (Contracts Circuit), Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK), Member of the ‘Comité Français D’Arbitrage’, Visiting Professor and PhD examiner in the Egyptian Universities in International State Contracts and Arbitration, particularly on infrastructure projects, Lecturer at the Cairo Regional Centre of the International Commercial Arbitration (CRCICA), Lecturer in the Gulf region and Bahrain Chamber for Disputes Resolution (BCDR-AAA) in international infrastructure Arbitration, Lecturer in the Arab League, and Arbitrator in the International Construction Contracts disputes particularly International Public Works Agreements. Dr Ismail was formerly a Senior Legal Advisor of HE the Egyptian Minister of Petroleum and represented the Egyptian Government in the state international business transactions in the Oil and Gas industry, especially in the UK with distinguished law firms such as Shearman Sterling the international counsel to the Egyptian government. He was a Senior Legal Advisor of HE the Egyptian Minister of Trade and Industry and formerly a Senior Legal Advisor of the Investment Sector in Egypt and represented the Egyptian government at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Geneva, for the Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) negotiations when developing states were involved. Dr Ismail is the recipient of the prestigious State Prize for Academic Legal Research – from the government of the Arab Republic of Egypt – 2011/2012.