Dr. Mohamed ABDEL RAOUF is Partner and Head of the international Arbitration Group at Abdel Raouf Law Firm, Egypt and an Associate Professor at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He has acted as sole arbitrator, co-arbitrator and chairman of arbitral tribunals in numerous international commercial arbitrations. He is the author and co-author of several legal publications on arbitration (in Arabic, English and French).

He is a member of the Governing Board and former Vice President of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA), a member of both the Board of Trustees and the Advisory Committee of the Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (CRCICA), Chairman of the Egypt Branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb), a CEDR Accredited Mediator, an Arbitrator listed in the Panel of Arbitrators of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), a Conciliator designated by the President of the World Bank Group to serve on the Panel of Conciliators maintained by the ICSID, an Approved Faculty List Tutor and Assessor at the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb), former member of the Board of the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC) and former Vice President, the International Federation of Commercial Arbitration Institutions (IFCAI).