Karim Youssef
| Address | Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, 12, rue de Tilsitt, 75008 Paris, France |
| Phone | (+33) 140 74 68 00 |
| Fax | |
| kyoussef@cgsh.com | |
| Website | www.clearygottIieb.com |
| Nationality | Egyptian |
| Education | – Yale Law School (J.S.D., 2007) – Yale Law School (LL.M., 2002) – Universite de Paris 1-Pantheon-Sorbonne (Maitrise, 2000) – Cairo University, Faculty of Law (D.E.S., 2000) – Cairo University, Faculty of Law (LL.B., 1999) |
| Bar Admission | Cairo – 1999 |
| Work Experience | Dr. Youssef’s practice focuses on International arbitration and international law. He has experience in complex multiparty proceedings and investor-State arbitrations, particularly involving Middle Eastern parties or applicable law. Dr.Youssef lectures private and international law at Cairo University, School of Law. Before joining the law firm of Cleary Gottlieb, he acted as counsel for the’Cairo Regional Center for International Commercial Arbitration (CRCICA), the)ministry of Justice of Egypt, the Egyptian Capital Market Authority and the International Human Rights Law Institute of De Paul University in Chicago. |
| Present Position | Dr. Youssef is a professor of private and international law at Cairo University, an associate at the Arbitration and International Law practice of the law firm of Cleary Gottlieb and inter alia a member of the ICC International Arbitration Commission. |
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| Publications | Dr. Youssef is widely published on various aspects of international arbitration. Among his recent publications: The Death of lnarbitrability, in Loukas Mistelis and Stavros Brekoulakis (eds), Arbitrability: International and Comparative Perspectives, Kluwer Law International 2009; and The Independence of International Arbitrators: An Arbitrators Perspective, ICC Inti. Court of Arb. Bull., 2007 Special Supplement, ICC Pub. 690, 2008 (with Ahmed S. EI-Kosheri). |
| Languages | Arabic (native), English, French |