IAEE UAE - International Arbitrators & Experts in Engineering sector

Dr. Maged F. Hanna, PfMP, RMP, PMP, CRMA

SELEM DMCC - Managing Director & CEO
Conference Chair
Egypt

Dr. Maged Hanna, holds 20 years of Experience in leading and managing organizations, and train individuals in different topics and especially leadership. He is currently the Managing Director & CEO of SELEM DMCC, which stands for Smart Engineering Leadership & Excellence in Management. A Pioneer Firm Providing Management Consultancy Services, Training Courses, Testing, and Conference Organization. Prior to assuming this leadership opportunity, Dr. Maged served as the General Manager of the Society of Engineers – UAE where he conducted pioneering work to develop and expand Society membership, professional activities, conferences, training and professional testing. With responsibility for the strategic development of the Society, to achieve and exceed ambitious professional goals. He has more than 100 initiatives towards enhancing organizational effectiveness in the Society as well as raising performance of organization and overall results. He has contributed numerous articles. Dr. Maged has been a jury member for competitions sponsored by international organizations and has participated in associated review of journals and other publications. He is also an active and guiding member of several steering committees including serving as a committee member for Bureau VERITAS and previous Executive Council member in the international Tunnelling Association (ITA), He held various seminars, exhibitions and conferences dedicated to all engineers working in the UAE and internationally for their professional growth and development.

Eng. Dr. Kamal Adnan Malas

Owner
Dr. Kamal Malas & Associates
Lebanon

Dr. Kamal Malas & Associates PhD,BA, MS at LAW Prof. Eng., Court Expert, MCIArb Kamal Adnan Malas, owner of Eng. Dr. Kamal Malas and Associates, has 35+ years of practical experience. He has extensive expertise in law and engineering and has two degrees: Civil Engineering, 1976, and Law, 1992. Having two degrees enables him to immediately understand the effects of each case from both sides – juridical and technical – making him distinguished in this field. He is accredited as a structural engineer in Dubai municipality and accredited in many international arbitration centres, and is accredited as an arbitrator and engineering expert in Dubai courts and all United Arab Emirates courts. Dr Malas has participated in more than 75 arbitration cases before the following bodies: UAE courts; Dubai courts; Dubai International Arbitration Centre (DIAC); and International Chamber of Commerce (ICC). He has handled 500+ Real Estate and Construction Disputes cases before UAE Courts, and Dubai courts. Dr Malas has deep knowledge in Engineering Contracts Forms, including FIDIC forms of contracts. He has authored many articles on arbitrations, project management, and intellectual property of drawings. He has been invited to speak in many International Conferences about arbitration, engineering contracts and real estate disputes, especially in the FIDIC (International Federation for Civil Engineers), DRBF (Dispute Resolution Board Foundation), IDRI (International Dispute Resolution Institute), C5, and many other conferences and training courses. Dr Malas’ practical experiences include cases handled in both Languages Arabic and English. He is the Author of the Book “Arbitration Award – Dubai Supreme Court Rules”, in Arabic and English. In 2014, Dr Malas invented new mechanisms for resolving construction disputes: M-DAB (Modern-Dispute Adjudication Board) and M-DRB (Modern-Dispute Review Board) which he believes will be widely applied internationally. Dr Malas is a member of Order of Engineers (Syria), Association of Engineers (UAE), Society of Construction Law (UAE), Dispute Resolution Board Foundation (USA). The services of Kamal Malas & associates cover the fields of construction - including claim consulting, dispute resolution, dispute avoidance, S to E system - and Real Estate - including advice about investing, managing of under development projects, representing the owners in dispute resolution, and litigation support. Value of disputes in which Dr. Malas was involved in them are USA $ 1.5 B Types of projects in which Dr. Malas was involved in them are: High Towers, Metro, Normal buildings, Airport, High Volumes Real Estate Developing Projects, Steel Structures Projects, luxuries Villas, Cinemas, Mosques, Hotels, Malls, Real Estate Plots, and Infrastructure Projects. Dr. Malas was the Manager of Engineering Consulting office and has two Professional Ranks (Structural design + Management). Dr Malas believes in high quality services, as such he limited his fields of services to only two fields: real estate and construction.

Robert A. Creo

Arbitrator, Mediator & Educator
Principal, Happy Effective Lawyer, LLC
United States of America

Robert A. Creo has over 40 years of practical experience in the dispute resolution field as an attorney, author, arbitrator, mediator, special master and educator. He is the author of The Effective Lawyer blog www.happyeffectivelawyer.org focused on core competencies and soft skills which result which in both lawyer contentment and peak performance. He has been an Adjunct Professor at Duquesne University School of Law, serving from 1991 – 2003, 2014 to present and the University of Pittsburgh School of Law from 2001 – 2012 teaching international dispute resolution. He has served as a neutral in thousands of cases, (over 5,000 days) since 1979. He is a member of numerous professional organizations including the National Academy of Arbitrators (1986). He is on the roster of many appointing agencies such as the American Arbitration Association, the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, and the National Mediation Board. He was the founding President of the International Academy of Mediators (1997), and in 2006 was the co-founder with Ken Cloke and of Mediators Beyond Borders International (MBBI), a non-profit organization which brings together mediators and students to work in communities traumatized by civil war and violence. He has authored numerous publications including Alternative Dispute Resolution: Law Procedure and Commentary for the Pennsylvania Practitioner (George T. Bisel Company, Inc., October 2006). For many years he has authored a monthly column, The Master Mediator, in Alternatives published by the CPR International Institute for Conflict Resolution & Prevention. Since 2014 he has been featured as the author of The Effective Lawyer Department for the Pennsylvania Lawyer bi-monthly publication of the Pennsylvania Bar Association. He serves as a mediator for the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS-TAS). He has served as an arbitrator for Major League Baseball and for the National Football League. He has served as an Independent Hearing Officer for the United States Senate Select Committee on Ethics. His hobby is storytelling and he frequents The Moth StorySlams and has won the Pittsburgh chapter event on Love Hurts in February 2018, entitling him to compete in GrandSlam in Pittsburgh in October. He teaches a course, Storytelling to Yes! for lawyers. Mr. Creo graduated from Washington University School of Law in St. Louis in 1977, where he was a senior editor of the law review, and Brandeis University in 1974.

Steering Committee

Dr. Maged F. Hanna, PfMP, RMP, PMP, CRMA

Dr. Alaa K. Ashmawy, P.E.

Dr. Nabil Mohd Ali Abbas

Eng. Dr. Kamal Adnan Malas

Robert A. Creo

Eng. Remon Akram Maher Farag

Mrs. Nikhat S Khan, MCIArb, TMC

Hanna Deir