Ismail Selim

Director of the Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (CRCICA) President of the International Federation of Commercial Arbitration Institutions (IFCAI) Chairman of the Egypt Branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb)

Vice-President of the African Arbitration Association (AfAA)

Dr. Selim started his career as a Public Prosecutor in the Office of the Prosecutor General of Egypt, then a civil Judge, until he joined Zulficar & Partners Law Firm in 2009, as a leading member of its Arbitration Group and where he was promoted to Partner in 2013.

Further, in May 2015, Dr. Selim joined Nour and Selim in association with Al Tamimi and Company as Partner and Head of Dispute Resolution, Cairo. In parallel to his former judicial career, Dr Selim was seconded to the Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration from 2003 until 2007 where he acted as Legal Advisor. Further, Dr. Selim became a member of CRCICA Advisory Committee as of 1 May 2016.

Dr. Selim reads Private International Law, Arbitration and ADR at the” Ecole de Droit de la Sorbonne au Caire” (Paris 1 University) since 2011. He also taught Comparative International Arbitration Law at the Paris 1 University Middle East Laws LLM in Paris since beginning of 2018 until 2021 and is a fully approved tutor in CIArb Approved Faculty List (AFL) since Apr...