Dr. Nabil Elaraby, chairman and director of CRCICA, passes away

Dr. Nabil Elaraby, chairman of the Board of Trustees at The Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (“CRCICA”), former director of CRCICA, former Minister of Foreign Affairs and former Secretary General of the Arab League passed away at the age of 89.

Dr. Nabil Elaraby

Dr. Elaraby became a Member of the ICSID Panel of Arbitrators in 2006, a Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, The Hague, The Netherlands (since 2005), Member of the Board of ICAS, International Council of Arbitration for Sport (since 2003), Member of the Governing Board of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (since 2000) and Judge at the Judicial Tribunal of the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (since 1990).

Previously he was a judge at the International Court of Justice from 2001 until February 2006. As an Egyptian diplomat, he served as the Permanent Representative to the UN in New York from 1991 to 1999; and in Geneva from 1987 to 1991, a member of the International Law Commission of the United Nations from 1994 to 2001 and the president of the Security Council in 1996.

He was Legal Adviser and Director in the Legal and Treaties Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1983 to 1987; head of the Egyptian delegation to the Taba dispute negotiations from 1986-1988. In addition, he was appointed as Minister of Foreign Affairs in 2011 and later was elected as secretary General of the league of Arab States.

CRCICA

On behalf of CRCICA and its entire staff, Dr. Ismail Selim , CRCICA’s Director, said goodbye to Dr. Elaraby with these beautiful words on CRCICA’s LinkedIn page: “Dr. Elaraby was instrumental in developing and supporting CRCICA’s mission to reinforce the principle of the rule of law and provide a just and time-efficient resolution of commercial and investment disputes. He was also a paragon of Egyptian Diplomacy and among the eminent jurists of international law, as he made significant contributions to the development of international law principles and rules in international forums. […] We may have lost an Egyptian diplomat of the highest caliber, a pioneer of international law, and a driving force of international arbitration in Egypt and the Arab world, but he remains in our hearts”.