Professor of International Arbitration, Private International Law and English Contract Law at Cairo University; Founding Partner and Head of International Arbitration, Construction and Energy Groups at Zulficar & Partners Law Firm (Egypt)
ICCA Treasurer & Member of the Governing Board; Dean of the Africa Arbitration Academy; Vice-Chair of the ICC Governing Body for Dispute Resolution Services; Vice President Global of the CIArb; President Elect of the CIArb (2025); Chair of the International Expert Committee of the Permanent Forum for China Construction Law; Co- Chair, IBA Arab Regional Forum; Vice-Chair of the Advisory Committee of the CRCICA; Member of the Advisory Board of the MIAC; Member of the LACIAC Court of Arbitration; Member of the ITA Academic Council; Member of the Advisory Board, Indonesian Arbitration Centre; Member of the Academic Council, Thailand Arbitration Centre’s Academy (THACA); Member of the Court, PCA, and Member of the Board of Trustees of the CIArb. He is a fellow of the National Centre for Technology and Dispute Resolution at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA; former Chair of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrator’s Technology Sub-Committee; and associate fellow of the Centre for Private International Law and Centre for Commercial Law at Aberdeen University (UK), C. Arb, FCIArb.
Prof. Dr. Mohamed S. Abdel Wahab is also Former Vice President of the ICC International Court of Arbitration (2015 – 2021); former Court Member of the LCIA (2014-2019); former Member of the CIMAC Court of Arbitration (2017 – 2022); former Member of the Governing Board of ICODR; former Vice Chair, Academic Forum for Investor-State Dispute Settlement (2018 -2020); former President of LCIA’s Arab Users’ Council (2016-2018); former Vice President of the IBA Arbitration Committee (2015-2018); former President of the Egypt Branch, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) (2018); former Member of the CIArb’s Board of Management (2018); former Chair of the CIArb’s Technology Sub- Committee (2012–2014); former Member of the CIArb’s Practice and Standards Committee (2012–2018); former Committee Member of the IBA Investment Arbitration Sub-Committee (2016–2017). He is Member of the Advisory Council of Africa Arbitration Blog and Accredited Mediator of the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (“CEDR”). He is a Fellow of the National Centre for Technology and Dispute Resolution at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA, and a former Chair of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrator’s Technology Sub-Committee.
Prof. Dr. Abdel Wahab’s expertise in cross border multi-jurisdictional and highly complex transactions and disputes is broad. He is recognized as a world-leading arbitrator and arbitration practitioner on international investment and international commercial arbitration, construction law & practice, Energy law and infrastructure disputes, Egyptian, Arab and African Laws, Islamic Shari’a, private international law and online dispute resolution. He is recognized as a world-renowned authority on ODR and a visionary on the role of technology in law and dispute resolution, and regularly publishes and speaks at international conferences on Online Dispute Resolution, E-Commerce and IT laws since 2001. Prof. Dr. Abdel Wahab also organized the Fourth International Forum on ODR in Egypt in 2006.