In December 2019, "Africa Arbitration" series Personality of the Month profiled CRCICA’s Director Dr. Ismail Selim once again among the distinguished personalities of the year 2019. The series is designed to profile and recognize leading arbitration practitioners.

"Africa Arbitration" also profiled three members of CRCICA’s Advisory Committee and a member of CRCICA’s Board of Trustees in Africa Arbitration Personalities of the year 2019; namely: Ms. Funke ADEKOYA SAN, Partner and Head of the Dispute Resolution Practice Group at ÆLEX, and Member of CRCICA’s BOT (Nigeria), and the following Members of CRCICA’s AC: Dr. Emilia Onyema, Reader in International Commercial Law, School of Law, SOAS, University of London, Member of the Governing Board of the African Arbitration Association (AfAA) (United Kingdom- Nigeria), Professor Dr. Mohamed S. Abdel Wahab, Chair of Private International Law Department and Professor of International Arbitration (Cairo University), Founding Partner & Head of the International Arbitration, Construction, Oil & Gas and Projects Groups, Zulficar & Partners Law Firm and Vice President of the ICC International Court of Arbitration (Egypt), and Ms. Samaa Haridi, Partner at Hogan Lovells, Vice-Chair of IBA Arbitration Committee and Co-Chair of IBA Africa Arbitration Network (USA-Egypt).