Dr Gaston KENFACK DOUAJNI is a Magistrate, currently the Director of Legislation at the Ministry of Justice in Cameroon; he has obtained a Doctorate of International Economic Law at the University of Paris I (Pantheon Sorbonne) in 2005, a Certificate on trade, negotiations and settlement of trade disputes at the Kennedy School of Government –Harvard University (USA) in 2004 and an Habilitation to Direct Researches at the University of Pau in France. He is the Editor of the “Revue Camerounaise de l’Arbitrage”, the President of the Association for the Promotion of Arbitration in Africa (APAA), registered on the list of arbitrators and conciliators at ICSID, at the OHADA Common Court of Justice and Arbitration and Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA).

In addition, Gaston KENFACK DOUAJNI is a member of the Board of Directors of the Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (CRCICA) and of the International Federation of Arbitration Centres and Associations (IFCAI).

President of the 49th Session of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), he teaches business law at various universities (in Africa and Europe) and has recently been promoted as the Chair of the Management Board of the African Legal Support Facility (ALSF).

Gaston KENFACK DOUAJNI sits as President of Arbitral Tribunal, Arbitrator, co-arbitral in ICC, ICSID, CCJA arbitration procedures.