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Our Independent Adjudicators

Dr Mohammed Abdel-Aziz Al-Kulaifi Professor Robin Callender Smith

The Regulatory Authority appointed Dr Mohammed The Regulatory Authority appointed Professor
Abdel-Aziz Al-Kulaifi to be a CDRS Independent Robin Callender Smith to be a CDRS Independent

Adjudicator in December 2017. Adjudicator in September 2013.

Dr Al-Kulaifi has been the Dean of the College of Professor Robin Callender Smith is an international

Law, Qatar University, and Associate Professor of arbitrator, mediator and adjudicator at ARBITA,
Commercial Law, College of Law, Qatar University his London Chambers. He specialises in financial,

since 2011. He earned his LL.B from Qatar University regulatory and privacy arbitration. He is a Member of

and his LL.M and JSD from the University of California, the Chartered Institute of Arbitration, a CEDR-qualified
Berkeley in the United States. He has published a Mediator and a Panel Adjudicator for the Society of

number of reviewed scientific articles in the field Computers and the Law (SCL). He was a member of the

of commercial law on topics such as bankruptcy UK energy regulator Ofgem’s independent Enforcement

and the acquisition of commercial companies. Decisions Panel and a non-executive member of

the UK’s Chartered Insurance Institute. He was also
Dr Al-Kulaifi has taught several law courses at Qatar formerly Deputy Chairman of the Regulatory Decisions

University including Principles of Commercial Law, Committee of the Financial Conduct Authority. He

Alternative Dispute Resolution, Commercial Papers worked as a Tribunal Judge for ten years and is Honorary
and Banking Transactions. He was a recipient of the Professor of Media Law at Queen Mary, University

HH the Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani of London (QMUL), where he completed his PhD.

Award at Education Excellence Day (PhD Category)

in 2012, as well as a fellowship from the Institute of He is the author of Celebrity and Royal Privacy, the Media

International and Regional Studies at Georgetown and the Law (Sweet & Maxwell 2015) and an Editor of
University in Qatar for the academic year 2013-2014. Sweet & Maxwell’s Encyclopedia of Data Protection

and Privacy. He has spent over 40 years as a media

He was a Visiting Professor at Carnegie Mellon University lawyer for national newspapers and ten years in the City
in Qatar. He also participated in several academic of London dealing with significant financial takeovers

and specialised committees including the Permanent and mergers as well as issues relating to compliance,

Committee for Legislative affairs in the council of corporate governance and professional standards

ministers and the Permanent International Law of the in the financial services sector. Professor Callender

Sea in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In addition to Smith has been a barrister for over 45 years and is
his academic work, Dr Al-Kulaifi is a lawyer at the Law a former elected member of the UK Bar Council and

Office of Abdulaziz Al-Kulaifi as well as a legal consultant Gray’s Inn Barristers’ Committee. He is a Vice President

for several governmental and private authorities. of London Youth, London’s largest youth charity.

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