CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

Mohamed El Mekawe joined ICON Holding as a Group Legal Director reporting directly to the Group CEO and a member of ACROW Executive Board in 2021, bringing a wealth of knowledge and vast expertise to his position as an accomplished Barrister and International Arbitrator. He is a member of the Egyptian Bar Association and International Arbitration Center, a Certified Expert at the International Arbitrators Association in Egypt, a Certified International Commercial Contracts Manager in the USA, and a Member of the United Union for Arab Lawyers.
El Mekawe is an accomplished legal advisor with +25-year long work experience in several international organizations. Since 2017, he has served as the General Secretariat of the Resolution Committee for Insurance Disputes and Violation (IDC) – at Saudi Arabia Monetary Authority (SAMA). Reporting directly to General Secretariat, he was responsible for studying lawsuits brought before the disputes committee to provide the legal opinion, drafting and reviewing the final form of the judgment before issuance, providing Legal consultancy proposals of laws, legal articles amendments, and policies related to the legal matters.

Before that, He was a legal counsel in Abdullah AL Mosleh Group – International Law Firm in Jeddah and Ajlan & Bros. in Riyadh, KSA. He also held several leading positions in the legal departments in Almana Group – Qatar and Easa Saleh AL Gurg Group. – Dubai - United Arab Emirates.
El Mekawe embarked on his career after earning his Bachelor of Law from Cairo University in 1997 and earned many certifications from multiple top international institutions, including; “The Arbitration of International Disputes” by the University of Leiden in 2018, and “An Introduction to American Law” by University of Pennsylvania- USA. in 2016. He was also certified by the International Purchasing & Supply Chain Management Institute IPSCMI in Delaware -the USA, as a “Certified International Commercial Contracts Manager- CICCM.”