Personal bio
Professor Dahlan is an accomplished international negotiation and mediation expert, and the founder and principal of Institution Quraysh for Law & Policy (iQ). Dahlan is a GCC-qualified lawyer, CEDR-accredited mediator, and fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He was a board director of the International Mediation Institute in the Hague. His work with the Harvard Negotiation Task Force focuses on building out a Mediation Support Group as well as on exploring pressing current global negotiation topics such as Jerusalem negotiations, Eurasian energy dynamics, the Belt & Road Initiative, and Investor-State mediation. He has also served on pioneering initiatives in ADR in several jurisdiction. He led several mediation and dispute resolution projects globally. He is currently leading the Scotia Group (SG26), which brings together international mediators and experts to support the UNFCCC COP26 Glasgow Process. Prof Dahlan is one of ten UN Regional Experts in Constitutional Affairs - Oil and Gas selected by the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq. He previously practiced at White & Case LLP in New York and Washington DC and also later established and affiliated the Middle East Practice of the late US Secretary of State Dean Acheson's Washington DC-based firm, Covington & Burling LLP, and headed it for more than six years. He was the founding director of the Brookings Center in Doha. He was Special Adviser to Lord Woolf of Barnes, Former Chief Justice of England and Wales. He is also the founding Director of the Qatar Law Forum of Global Leaders in Law and most recently led the establishment of International Dispute Registry to help states and investors reach settled agreements. He acted as an outside counsel for many businesses, institutions, organisations, and government and quasi government entities. He advised the FCO on post 9/11 Islamic relations and also advised the USTR. He sat on several boards and advisory councils, including, a trustee of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law. He is an expert in trade, energy and investment law. He received various awards, accolades and designation recognizing his leadership and contributions from several international academic institutions, judicial bodies and numerous publications. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Middle East Institute, Singapore National University, at the Royal Soc of Edinburgh. He held and continues to hold adjunct and visiting professorships around the world, including, Shanghai, Singapore, Cambridge and Harvard. He is an Adjunct of Rand Europe and sits on its Board of Advisers, an Advisory Board member of the Institute for Legal and Constitutional Research at the University of St. Andrew’s, and a member of the Boston University Pardee School of Global Studies Dean’s Advisory Board. He sits on the editorial board of Defence Strategic Communications, NATO’s academic journal. He holds a Habilitation Higher Doctorate (LLD).