Dania FAHS

Dr Dania Fahs Nationality: Lebanese - Canadian Current Position: Lawyer and dispute resolution specialist in arbitration, mediation, and integrative negotiation - Lecturer in IP law at Saint Joseph University Dubai Former regional director at ICC International Court Arbitration &ADRs- MENA. Dania has a (19 +) years of mixed experience as attorney in private practice, in-house counseling, and institutional practice with ICC until recently (July 2023). She is specialized in transactional, commercial and IP law and has advised clients on a broad range of commercial contentious and non-contentious matters as well as assisted in negotiating complex cross border transactions in various sectors (pharmaceutical, technology, FMCG, luxury…) Prior to joining ICC, Dania was a senior legal counsel at Oracle Corp. She has an extensive international experience in advising multinational boards on a wide range of legal and strategic issues. A former lecturer in American Business Law (American University of Beirut), and in Intellectual Property Law (La Sagesse University) Dania holds a PhD in Contractual Law (University Montpellier I -France) Dir. Prof. Jacques Raynard and an Executive MBA from INSEAD (2018). She also holds a post graduate micro-programme degree in IP and Alternative Dispute Resolution (University of Montreal). She is certified as Trainer of Trainers by the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Centre, member of Arbitral Women and a certified CEDR mediator.