Dr. Sherif EL-Haggan has over 40 years experience in the fields of claims consultancy, arbitration, adjudication, mediation, dispute resolution and contract administration and is a partner/director of Sherif EL-Haggan & Partners (Contract Administration & Arbitration Bureau).
Dr. Sherif EL-Haggan designed the construction law programme known as CLAC (Contractual & Legal Aspects in the Construction Industry), currently conducted in the Arab Academy for Science & Technology (AAST) and in the American University in Cairo (AUC) since 2001. CLAC is a comprehensive 6-course programme that achieved great success with participants including engineers & lawyers.
Dr. EL-Haggan obtained the FCIArb of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in 1995 and has been in the list of the CIArb approved tutors/examiners since 2002. He became a CEDR/IFC Accredited Mediator in May 2010 and successfully completed the CEDR/IFC Train-the-Trainer Programme in 2011 and is a member of DRBF.
Dr. EL-Haggan participated in ICC/FIDIC conferences and conducted FIDIC Modules in India and Nigeria. He achieved highest grades in evaluation of speakers of the FIDIC Abu Dhabi Conference (2010).
He teaches undergraduate and post-graduate courses n the AUC and in collaboration with the ASCE, AAST, Kuwait University, Cairo University and Ain Shams University and numerous in-house training programmes in the fields of contract law, FIDIC Forms, claims and dispute resolution.
Dr. EL-Haggan obtained his Ph.D. from Sheffield University, England in 1978 then joined Ove Arup & Partners, London. In 1982 he was appointed project manager of the Kuwait Waterfront Project. In 1992, he joined Dar Al Handasah and performed tasks in Turkey, UK, Saudi Arabia, England, Algeria and Qatar and then worked with the Greater Cairo Metro Consultants.
In 2012, Dr. EL-Haggan obtained de Bono Thinking CoRT Accredited Certified Trainer, Oxford, England and since 2001 made nationwide efforts via EL-Haggan Teaching Thinking Foundation, declared in February 2012, to establish CoRT thinking tools into the educational curriculum in Egyptian Government schools.