Career Nabil Elaraby

1 career

1.1 egyptian government
1.2 united nations
1.3 other international work
1.4 2011 egyptian revolution , transitional government
1.5 arab league

career

elaraby partner @ zaki hashem & partners in cairo, specializing in negotiations , arbitration.

egyptian government

elaraby legal adviser , director in legal , treaties department of ministry of foreign affairs 1976 1978 , ambassador india 1981 1983; returned previous post @ foreign ministry 1983 1987.

he legal adviser egyptian delegation camp david middle east peace conference in 1978, head of egyptian delegation taba negotiations 1985 1989, , agent of egyptian government egyptian-israeli arbitration tribunal (taba dispute) 1986 1988.

he appointed egyptian minister of justice on list of arbitrations in civil , commercial affairs in egypt in 1995.

united nations

in 1968, elaraby adlai stevenson fellow in international law @ united nations institute training , research (unitar). appointed special fellow in international law @ unitar in 1973, , legal adviser egyptian delegation united nations geneva middle east peace conference 1973-1975.

elarby egypt s deputy permanent representative united nations in new york 1978 1981, permanent representative un office @ geneva 1987 1991, permanent representative un in new york 1991 1999, member of international law commission of united nations 1994 2004, president of security council in 1996, , vice-president of general assembly in 1993, 1994 , 1997. commissioner @ united nations compensation commission in geneva 1999 2001, , member of international court of justice 2001 until february 2006.

elaraby has served chairman first (disarmament , international security questions) committee of general assembly, informal working group on agenda peace, working group on legal instruments un conference on environment , development in rio de janeiro, , un special committee on enhancing principle of prohibition of use of force in international relations.

other international work

elaraby member of un international court of justice, meeting russian president vladimir putin, 2 november 2005

elaraby arbitrator @ international chamber of commerce international court of arbitration in paris in dispute concerning suez canal 1989 1992. judge in judicial tribunal of organization of arab petroleum exporting countries in 1990.

elaraby member of governing board of stockholm international peace research institute 2000 2010. since december 2008 has been serving director of regional cairo centre international commercial arbitration , counsel of sudanese government in abyei boundary arbitration between government of sudan , sudanese people s revolutionary movement.

elaraby has served member of board cairo regional centre international commercial arbitration, member of board egyptian society of international law, , member of world intellectual property organization arbitration , mediation centre list of neutrals.

2011 egyptian revolution , transitional government

nabil elaraby 1 of group of 30 high-profile egyptians acting liaison between protesters , government, , pressing removal of president hosni mubarak.

elaraby in international conference in support of new libya, paris, 1 september 2011

at democracy forum on 25 february 2011, said egyptian government suffered lack of separation of powers, lack of transparency , lack of judicial independence. said foreign policy should based on egypt s interests, including holding israel accountable when not respect obligations.

on 6 march 2011, appointed foreign minister of egypt in essam sharaf s post-revolution cabinet. since has opened rafah border crossing gaza , brokered reconciliation of hamas fatah.

arab league

on 15 may 2011, appointed secretary general of arab league, succeeding amr moussa. officially took office on 1 july 2011.