Dr. Ismail Selim: Director of the Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (CRCICA) Secretary-Treasurer of the International Federation of Commercial Arbitration Institutions (IFCAI) Vice Chairman of the Egypt Branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb).
Dr. Selim started his career as a Legal Associate at Shalakany Law Firm, followed by a career in the judiciary as Prosecutor for the Cabinet of the Attorney General in Egypt before he became Judge in the Civil and Commercial Courts. He joined private practice again in 2009, at Zulficar & Partners, where he was a Leading member of the International Arbitration Department before being promoted to Partner in 2013. In 2015, Dr. Selim co-founded Nour and Selim in association with Al Tamimi and Company as Partner and Head of Dispute Resolution for the institution of an Al Tamimi Office in Cairo. Dr Selim has parallelly acted as Legal Advisor for the Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (CRCICA) until 2007, and became member of CRCICA’s Advisory Committee in 2016. In January 2017, following his appointment as Director by CRCICA’s Board of Trustees, Dr. Selim resigned from Al Tamimi and Company to become the Director of CRCICA. Selim is consistently appointed as Presiding arbitrator, Sole Arbitrator and Co-Arbitrator and has acted as Counsel in various ad hoc and institutional cases under various International institutional rules in the fields of tourism, hotels, construction, telecommunications, natural gas, sales contracts, company contracts, leases, commercial contracts, maritime transport, supply contracts, technical work contracts and shareholder disputes, sports related in front of the “Cairo Regional Center for International Commercial Arbitration” CRCICA, the “Paris International Chamber of Commerce” ICC, the “Zurich Chamber of Commerce” in accordance with the Swiss rules and the “London Court of International Arbitration”, the “Center Dubai Financial International“ DIFC-LCIA and the “Abu Dhabi Center for Conciliation and Commercial Arbitration” ADCCAC, “Bahrain Chamber for Dispute Resolution” BCDR and the “Court of Arbitration for Sport” CAS, as well as non-institutional arbitrations in accordance with the provisions of the Egyptian Arbitration Law and the UNCITRAL Rules 2.