Gaston Kenfack Douajni

Gaston Kenfack Douajni is a Cameroonian 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 (US) in 2004 and an Habilitation to Direct Researches at the University of Pau in France.

Since 2008, he is professor of business and arbitration law at the International Relations Institute of Cameroon (IRIC)-University of Yaoundé II; guest professor at the Institute of International Studies – University of Paris II and at the University of Paris-Sud. He is former member of the ICC Court of Arbitration and Corresponding member of the Paris Institute of International Arbitration in the OHADA space.

Gaston Kenfack Douajni has delivered numerous opinions on contracts, business, investment, banking, mediation and arbitration law. He is the editor of the “Revue Camerounaisede l’Arbitrage”, the president of the Association for the Promotion of Arbitration in Africa (APAA) and, until July 2017, the chairman of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), a member of the IFCAI Council, and a member of the Board of the CRCICA (Cairo Regional Centre of International Commercial Arbitration).