Dr Nayla Comair-Obeid is a founding partner of Obeid Law Firm, where she heads the dispute resolution practice. Dr Comair-Obeid regularly serves in arbitral proceedings as counsel, arbitrator or legal expert on various aspects of Lebanese law and Middle Eastern legislations. Dr Nayla Comair-Obeid is a professor of international commercial arbitration at the Lebanese University and the author of numerous publications in Arabic, French and English, and, particularly, of the monography “The Law of Business Contracts in the Middle East”. In addition to her experience in academia and practice, Dr Comair-Obeid sits on the ICSID panel of arbitrators; is a member of the Council of the Institute of World Business Law of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC); member of the LCIA Court; trustee of the Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration board of trustees; former Commissioner of the United Nations Compensation Commission in Geneva; and former Vice Chair of the Arbitration Committee of International Bar Association. Prof Comair-Obeid has acted as the President of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) for 2017 and is the former Chair of the CIArb Board of Trustees.