Dr. Dalia Hussein (MCIArb) is the incoming Director of the Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (CRCICA) as of 1 January 2026. She is the Vice President and Honorary Secretary General of the CIArb Egypt Branch and a Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, Zagazig University.
Dr. Hussein has over 22 years of experience in international commercial and investment arbitration. Before joining CRCICA in 2014, she worked as an Administrative Prosecutor and was seconded at the Department of International Cooperation at the Egyptian Ministry of Justice where she worked on a number of investment cases involving Egypt, in addition to issues of international judicial cooperation in civil, commercial and criminal matters, as well as issues related to international child abduction. After her resignation, she joined an international arbitration law firm based in Cairo where she represented states and private parties in commercial and investment disputes before many institutions including CRCICA, ICC, ICSID and DIAC. She taught business and contract Law at the French and British universities in Egypt, commercial and investment arbitration at the Institut de Droit des Affaires Internationales at Cairo University and at the French Law Section at Ain Shams University. She also worked as an external legal expert for Arab and Islamic Laws at the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, and as adjunct professor of Law at the American University in Cairo (AUC).
Updated at: 14/03/2025