Guest speakers from arbitral institutions active in Western and Northern Africa, including the ICC, CAMC-O (Burkina Faso), CRCICA (Egypt) and Lagos Court of Arbitration (Nigeria), will join us to provide institutional overviews of arbitral developments across the region. We will then move to a wider panel discussion to explore updates to the following topics: compétence-compétence principal, interim measures, public policy, the enforcement of arbitration awards, and states and state entities in arbitration.

Guest speakers set out below.

Part one – Institutional Overview

• Bintou Boli, Arbitrator, Mediator, Permanent Secretary of the Arbitration, Mediation and Conciliation Centre of Ouagadougou (CAMC-O)
• Diamana Diawara, Regional Director for Africa, ICC
• Ismail Selim Dalia Hussein, Director of the CRCICA, Secretary Treasurer of the IFCAI and Board Member of the AfAA
• Oluwatosin Lewis, Executive Secretary, Lagos Court Of Arbitration
• Moderator: Athina Fouchard Papaefstratiou, Independent Arbitrator

Part two – Developments regarding arbitration law

• Prof Dr Mohamed Sameh Amr, Professor & Chair International Law Dept. at Cairo University, Founder & Managing Partner of Amr & Partners Law Firm (Cairo)
• Clément Fouchard, International Arbitration Partner, Reed Smith
• Affef Ben Mansour, Attorney at Law, Arbitrator - Public International Law and International Arbitration
• Tolu Obamuroh, International Arbitration Associate, White & Case
• Moderator: Guillaume Aréou, International Arbitration lawyer, Reed Smith

Book your virtual place using the registration link above. 

The event will be conducted in a mix of English and French.

Read more about our speakers by downloading the PDF below.