Dr. Ismail Selim

Dr. Selim is the Director of the CRCICA and Secretary Treasurer of the IFCAI. He is also a board member of the AfAA, Vice President of the Cairo Branch of the CIArb and board member of Francarbi as of 1st January 2018.

He has two Masters degrees, in International Business Law from IDAI (1999) and in Public Administration from ENA (2001). In 2009, he earned his PhD from Université de Bourgogne.

Dr. Selim began as a judge before joining Zulficar & Partners, where he became a Partner in International Arbitration in 2013. In May 2015, he joined Nour & Selim in association with Al Tamimi & Company as Partner, Head of Dispute Resolution.

Dr Selim teaches Private International Law at IDAI, since 2011, and at several universities in Egypt. He also teaches Comparative International Arbitration Law for the Middle East Laws LLM at Paris I since early 2018. He is a tutor on the CIArb Approved Faculty List.

He is consistently appointed as Presiding arbitrator, Sole Arbitrator and Co-Arbitrator and has acted as a Counsel in various ad hoc and institutional cases under various rules.

He is enrolled on the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) panel of arbitrators.