Dr. Nabil Elaraby Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (present). Previously the Secretary General of the League of Arab States July 2011 - 2016, He was appointed Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs in March 2011, He served as director of the Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration from 2008 to 2011. Previously He was a Judge at the International Court of Justice from 2001 until 2006, He was appointed the Permanent Representative to the UN in New York from 1991 to 1999; a member of the International Law Commission of the United Nations from 1994 to 2001; President of the Security Council in 1996; the Permanent Representative to the UN Office at Geneva from 1987 to 1991; 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.