Dr. Sherif El Haggan Arbitrator Adjudicator Mediator CLAC Programme

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Dr. Sherif EL-Haggan is a Partner/Director of Contract Administration & Arbitration Bureau & has over 45 years experience in arbitration, adjudication, mediation, dispute resolution, claims consultancy and contract administration.Dr. EL-Haggan designed the Construction Law programme CLAC (Contractual & Legal Aspects in the Construction Industry); a comprehensive 5-course programme that achieved great success in the Middle East with participants including engineers & lawyers.Dr. EL-Haggan obtained FCIArb of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in 1995 and is in the list of the CIArb approved tutors/examiners since 2002. He became a CEDR/IFC Accredited Mediator in 2010 & successfully completed the CEDR/IFC Train-the-Trainer Programme in 2011. He was DRBF Country Representative for Egypt ().In December 2025 Dr. EL-Haggan was appointed Honorary Lecturer in the School of Law and Social Sciences, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland, UKDr. EL-Haggan participated in ICC/FIDIC conferences and conducted FIDIC Modules in India and Nigeria. He achieved highest grades in the speakers' evaluation of the FIDIC Abu Dhabi Conference (2010).He taught undergraduate & post-graduate courses in the AUC and in collaboration with the ASCE, AAST, Kuwait University, Cairo University and Ain Shams University and conducted numerous in-house training programmes in the fields of contract law, FIDIC Forms, claims and dispute resolution.Dr. EL-Haggan obtained his Ph.D. from Sheffield University, England in 1978 then joined Ove Arup & Partners, London.In 1982 he was appointed manager of the Kuwait Waterfront Project. In 1992, he joined Dar Al Handasah as geotechnical engineer and performed tasks in Turkey, Saudi Arabia, England, Algeria and Qatar and then worked with the Greater Cairo Metro Consultants.In 2012, Dr. EL-Haggan obtained de Bono Thinking CoRT Accredited Certified Trainer, Oxford, England and since 2001 made nationwide efforts via EL-Haggan Teaching Thinking Foundation to establish CoRT thinking tools into the educational curriculum in Egyptian Government schools.