Dr. Selim started off his carrier as an associate at Shalakany Law Office. Further, he integrated the Egyptian judicial system where he started off as a Public Prosecutor in the Office of the Prosecutor General of Egypt, then a civil Judge, until he joined Zulficar & Partners Law Firm in 2009, as a leading member of its Arbitration Group and where he was promoted to Partner in 2013. Further, in May 2015, Dr. Selim joined Nour and Selim in association with Al Tamimi and Company as Partner and Head of Dispute Resolution, Cairo. In parallel to his former judicial career, Dr Selim was seconded to the Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration from 2003 until 2007 where he acted as Legal Advisor. Further, Dr. Selim became a member of CRCICA Advisory Committee as of 1st May 2016. Moreover, Dr. Selim teaches Private International Law at the IDAI in Cairo (Sorbonne University) since 2011 and has taught Arbitration Law and Private International Law in several Universities in Egypt. He has been constantly appointed as Presiding arbitrator, Sole Arbitrator and Co-Arbitrator and has acted as a Counsel in more than forty ad hoc and institutional cases under various rules such as CRCICA, Swiss Rules, UNCITRAL and the ICC Rules and in diverse fields including telecommunications, electricity, oil and gas, hospitality, construction, banking, shareholders disputes, advertisement, international sale of goods and media and entertainment. Dr. Selim has acted as Counsel in several post-arbitral litigation proceedings before Cairo Court of Appeal. In 2007, he accomplished an internship program at the ICC Court of International Arbitration in France, has published several articles in learned Egyptian and International journals and was a speaker in several national and international conferences, especially in the field of arbitration and investment. Dr. Ismail Selim is the Director of the Cairo Regional Center for International Commercial Arbitration as of 1st January 2017.