Nationality: Algeria/Switzerland

Judge Fatsah Ouguergouz is an international independent arbitrator with over 30 years of experience in international law, including more than 25 years of practice in international judicial matters, arbitration, mediation and conciliation. He is a titular member of the Institut de Droit International.

Judge Ouguergouz is Member of the panel of arbitrators of BAC (Beijing Arbitration Commission), BIAC (Beijing International Arbitration Center), CIETAC (China International Economic and Trade Commission), SCIAHK (South China International Arbitration Center), SHIAC (Shanghai International Arbitration Center), SCIA (Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration) and EDAC (Ankara Energy   Disputes Arbitration Centre), Ankara, Turkey. He is also notably member of the Consultative Committee of Beihai Asia International Arbitration Centre (Singapore) and the African Association of Arbitration (Kigali, Rwanda).

In addition to his arbitral activities, Judge Ouguergouz is Member of the Administrative Tribunal of the African Development Bank, Rector of the African Institute of International Law (Arusha, Tanzania), Visiting Professor at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva, Switzerland), and Of Counsel, Kanani/Rezki Avocats/Law Firm (Geneva). He served as Judge and Vice-President of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (Arusha) from 2006 to 2016 and notably chaired the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Burundi established by the United Nations Human Rights Council (Geneva, Switzerland), from 2016 to 2018. He was Secretary of the International Court of Justice (The Hague, Netherlands) from 1995 to 2006 and Legal Officer at the Office of Legal Affairs of the United Nations in New York from 1992 to 1994.

Judge Ouguergouz holds a Ph.D. from the Graduate Institute of International Studies (Geneva) and taught public international law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Geneva (1989- 1992). He was an Orville H. Schell Fellow at Yale Law School (New Haven, Connecticut, USA) and Visiting Professor at the University of Buenos Aires Law School (Argentina), the Georgetown University Law Center (Washington D.C., USA), the University Panthéon Assas (Paris II, France) and the Geneva Academy for International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. In 2018, he was Senior Fellow at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva) and taught a special course at the summer course of The Hague Academy of International Law in 2018.

Judge Ouguergouz is the author of numerous publications, including several books, and was Deputy Director of the African Yearbook of International Law from 1992 to 2018.

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