Personal bio
DR. ABDEL RAOUF is an Egyptian Attorney at law, Partner and Head of the international Arbitration Group at ABDEL RAOUF LAW FIRM, Cairo-Egypt. He is the former Director of the Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (CRCICA [2012-2016]) and an Associate Professor at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He specializes in international arbitration and ADR as well as in commercial contracts, investment agreements, construction, real estate and sports-related disputes.
DR. ABDEL RAOUF is a holder of a Ph.D. in private law (with the distinction très honorable avec les félicitations du jury) from the University of Montpellier I, France. Topic of thesis was «The International Arbitrator and State Contracts» (Published). Prior to this, he obtained a Diploma, DEA en Droit des Contrats d'Affaires, Montpellier Business Law School, University of Montpellier I, France, a Master’s degree in International Business Law (LL.M), Institute of International Business Law (IDAI), Cairo University and a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.), Faculty of Law, Cairo University.
He has acted as sole arbitrator, co-arbitrator and chairperson of arbitral tribunals in numerous international arbitrations (institutional and ad hoc). His arbitration experience covers a wide range of arbitration Rules including those of CRCICA, UNCITRAL, ICC, LCIA, ICSID, PCA, AAA, DIAC, CAS, DIFC-LCIA, GCC, ADCCAC and the BCDR. He has also acted as mediator/conciliator in several international cases including cases involving States/State entities.
He teaches both international arbitration and sports law for undergraduates and postgraduates at the delocalized Cairo branch of the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne in Cairo University (École de droit de la Sorbonne au Caire- EDS) as well as at the Faculty of Law and Legal Studies, the German University in Cairo (GUC).
He is the author and co-author of several legal publications on arbitration (in Arabic, English and French). He has also spoken at several international conferences and seminars. He is a member of the Advisory Board and former Vice President of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA), member of the Board of Trustees and the Advisory Committee of the CRCICA, Egypt’s Alternate Member of the ICC International Court of Arbitration, Member of the Board of Directors of the Saudi Center for Commercial Arbitration (SCCA), Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA), Arbitrator listed in the Panel of Arbitrators of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), Conciliator designated by the President of the World Bank Group to serve on the Panel of Conciliators maintained by the ICSID (2017-2023), CEDR Accredited Mediator, Approved Faculty List Tutor and Course Director at the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb), former member of the Board of the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC), former Vice President, the International Federation of Commercial Arbitration Institutions (IFCAI), former Chair of the Egypt Branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb).