In February 2020, Prof. Dr. Mohamed S. Abdel Wahab, Founding Partner & Head of International Arbitration, Construction and Oil & Gas, Zulficar & Partners Law Firm, Chair, Private International Law, Professor of Dispute Resolution, Cairo University and Member of the CRCICA Advisory Committee, has been elected as one of the six new Governing Board Members of the ICCA for an initial four-year term. The ICCA’s Governing Board Members are recognized specialists in the field of dispute resolution. Prof. Dr. Abdel Wahab is the only newly elected member residing in Africa and the Middle East Region.

Other new Governing Board Members are from Switzerland, the United Kingdom, France and Singapore.

Professor Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler, ICCA President, welcomed the new members:

“ICCA is thrilled to welcome these six prominent arbitration experts to the Governing BoardI am confident that they will contribute their expertise to the debates within ICCA’s Board and innovative ideas to ICCA’s various projects and task forces.”

Professor Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler