Agenda

This forum is organized in cooperation with ICDR-AAA. The forum is designed to explore and discuss new concepts that would help in promoting the use of institutional arbitration. This would include the role of institutional arbitration in ensuring higher level of arbitrators’ impartiality, independence and quality, better case management approaches and more consistent outcomes.

Speakers

Mr. Yassin Khayat

Mr. Yassin Khayat, Chairman of SCCA Board of Directors, lawyer, legal counsel and Certified arbitrator from the Saudi Ministry of Justice. He is Member of the National Lawyers Committee in the Council of Saudi Chambers (CSC), Member of the Board of Directors of the General Commission of the Guardianship of Trust Funds for Minors and their Counterparts and the Bankruptcy Committee (Amiable Conciliation against Bankruptcy Committee). He served as Vice-Chairman of the Lawyers Committee at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Jeddah in the nineteenth session, Chairman of the Lawyers Committee at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Jeddah in the twenty first and twenty second sessions, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the G.C.C Commercial Arbitration Center (GCCCAC) - Representative of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 2012 and 2016 and former member of the Standing Committee for Saudi Arbitration Centers. He worked as legal researcher in Ministry of Hajj and Ummra from 1417 AH to 1419 AH. Mr. Khayat has a Master degree in law and professional practice, with excellent grade, from King Abdul-Aziz University in Jeddah.

Professor Dr. Georges Affaki

Professor of international law, international finance, and dispute resolution at the University of Paris II. Experienced Arbitrator appointed as arbitrator and chairman of arbitral tribunal in numerous cases with the main international arbitral institutions including: International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA), International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR), London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) and Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC). Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb). Member of the Saudi Center for Commercial Arbitration Roster of Arbitrators. Author or editor of several books, including “Trade Finance”, (awarded the European Prize on Interdisciplinary Research); “Cross-border insolvency and conflict of jurisdictions”, and over 60 articles and case notes on international banking, international arbitration and litigation, economic sanctions, cross-border insolvency and Islamic finance.

Richard Naimark

Former Vice President of International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR) of the American Arbitration Association(AAA), New York. Mr. Naimark participated in the establishment of the ICDR. He is the founder and former Executive Director of the Global Center for Dispute Resolution Research which conducted research in arbitration and ADR for disputes in cross-border transactions. Mr. Naimark is an experienced neutral, having served as a neutral in a wide variety of organization. He cooperated and provided technical assistance to various international entities, including United Nation Commission for International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) as well as governments, non-profit organization, academic institutions and private sector. Mr. Naimark has conducted hundreds of seminars and training programs on dispute resolution and is co-editor of the book Toward a Science of International Arbitration, and several Published Articles.

Dr. Mostafa Abdel Ghaffar

He is currently working as Head of ADR of the Saudi Center for Commercial Arbitration. He had 23 years’ experience of working as judge, counselor at the Egyptian Ministry of Justice and Director of the Judicial and Legal Studies Institute in Bahrain. He represented and prepared the defense of Egypt in three legal disputes initiated against the government of Egypt within the framework of the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes, (ICSID). Dr. Mostafa was the founder director of the Judicial and Legal Studies in Bahrain where he worked on establishing strategy, policies, procedure and initial plans. Dr. Mostafa also provided consultations in various projects conducted by the UNODC in the field of judicial training and judicial governance in Egypt, Iraq and Jordan. He is the author of several books and articles on administration of justice and judicial governance

Agenda

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