Excellence in Teaching (Warwick University) Excellence in Research (Qatar University)

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1 Francis Botchway is a Professor of Law, and since 2016 was elected to the Distinguished Sir William Chair in Alternative Dispute Resolution. A Chair established in conjunction with the Qatar International Court and Dispute Resolution Centre following the generous donation of Sir William Blair, a senior Commercial Court judge in England. This is in recognition of his work as one of the world leading academics in International Economic Law and Dispute Resolution. Prof Botchway holds four law degrees from four of the leading universities in the world including Harvard, Dalhousie, Manchester and Ghana. He has served as consultant to major law firms in the UK, US and Africa. He is a regular speaker at the World Bank s Law, Justice and Development Conferences, and is also invited to speak at conferences in Asia, Europe, the Americas and Africa. Prof. Botchway has published more fifty (50) pieces of work, including three books, half a dozen book chapters and dozens of articles in leading international journals around the world. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Global Journal of Comparative Law and a founder of the International Review of Law. Prof. Botchway has served Qatar University in various capacities including as the first Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies in Law, where he, under the Dean s leadership and together with colleagues, transformed the college into a tour de force in research, evidenced by more than forty (40) annual faculty publications, more than three (3) million dollars in researc h grants and 90% employability rates of graduates. He is a mentor to several junior faculty members and graduates. He advised on several initiatives at the university level including collaboration with institutions such as the World Bank, Qatar Petroleum Development, Ministries and International institutions. As a leading scholar in the field, he attracted high level speakers and participants at conferences, seminars, colloquia, etc. He instituted the Distinguished Speaker s Forum which brought high profile speakers such as Helen Clark, former Prime Minister of New Zealand and Administrator of UNDP, Judge Awn Khasawneh, former Prime Minister of Jordan and Vice President of the ICJ, Lord Nicholas Philips, first President of the UK Supreme Court and former Chief Justice of England and Wales, Mrs. Brigitte Stern, Emeritus Professor of Sorbonne and leading arbitrator, Dr Willy Kempel, Austrian Ambassador, etc. Prior to joining Qatar University, Professor Botchway served as Lecturer and Reader at Warwick University and Hull universities in the UK, Adjunct Professor at Leuven in Belgium and Visiting Professor at the University of Puerto Rico. He also served as a consultant to Conservation International in Washington and other leading international institutions. He won many awards including: Excellence in Teaching (Warwick University) Excellence in Research (Qatar University)

2 Willoughby Prize International Bar Association (IBA) C.R. Allen Fellowship Manchester University Recent Publications Books 1. Natural Resource Investment and Africa s Development (edited) (Edward Elgar, UK. 2011) pp Documents in International Economic Law (Routledge, UK. 2006) pp Environmental Law in Ghana (Kluwer Monograph Series, The Netherlands. 2004) pp Defences in International Investment Law (forthcoming, Routledge, UK, 2018). Pp Chapters in Books 5. African National Courts and International Arbitral Tribunals: The Quest for Harmony. (in A Commitment to Law, Development & Public Policy, Richard Oppong & Kissi Adjabeng eds; Wildy, Simmons and Hill Publishers, UK, 2016). 6. Regime Theory and China Africa Economic Relations (in Natural Resource Investment and Africa s Development, Edward Elgar, 2011) pp Introduction to Natural Resource Investment and Africa s Development (Edward Elgar, 2011) pp Environmental Law in Post-colonial Societies: Aspirations, Achievements and Limitations - with Richardson & Mgbeoji - (in Environmental Law for Sustainability, Richardson and Wood eds, Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2006) pp Historical Perspectives in International Economic Law (in Perspectives in International Economic Law, A. Qureshi eds, Kluwer, 2002) pp Dispute Resolution in oil and Gas Industry (Eduardo Pereira, eds, Edward Elgar, forthcoming, 2018). Articles 11. New Arbitration Law in Qatar: Issues Arising (International Arbitration Law Review, UK, 2017).

3 12. Trans-systemic Models of Dispute Resolution and Economic Development: The Case of Qatar, vol. 19 Asian Business Lawyer (2017). 13. The Constitutional Regime for Natural Resource Governance in Africa: The Difficult March towards Accountability with Nightingale Rukuba-Ngaiza (6 World Bank Legal Review, USA. 2015). 14. The Immunity Conundrum (African Journal of International and Comparative Law, Edinburgh University Press, UK, 2014). 15. Animal Welfare in Qatar: Law and Philosophy (46 (2) Environmental Policy and Law, the Netherlands, 2016) (with Dabia Maslamani). 16. Diminishing Acts of the State. Or Is It? (13 Journal of World Investment & Trade, Brill Publishers, the Netherlands, 2012) pp Forums for International Economic Adjudication: Threads in Fragments (Cardozo Journal of International and Comparative Law, summer, 2012) pp Not Ready for Change? The English Courts and Pre-contractual Negotiations (with K.A. Choong The International Lawyer, vol. 45, 2011) pp Mergers and Acquisitions in the Natural Resource Industry. (26 Connecticut Journal of International Law, 2011). 20. Can The Law Compel Business Parties to Negotiate? (3 Journal of World Energy Law and Business, Oxford Univ. Press, 2010). 21. Is The IMF Conditionality Anachronistic? (Law and Financial Markets Review, Hart Publishing, 2009) pp Privy to Unsustainable Arguments in the Belize Dam Case (Environmental Law Review, 2006) pp Privatisation and State Control - The Case of the Ashanti Goldfields Company (Journal of Energy and Nat. Res. Law, 2004) pp The Context of Trans-boundary Resource Exploitation: The Environment, the State and the Methods (Colorado Journal of International Environmental Law and Policy, 2003) pp

4 25. Good Governance: The Old, the New, the Principle and the Elements (Florida Journal of International Law, 2001) pp Contemporary Energy Regime in Europe (European Law Review, 2001) pp International Trade Regime and Energy Trade (Syracuse Journal of Int. Trade and Commerce, 2001) pp International Adjudicatory Process and Trans-boundary Resource Disputes (Australian International Law Journal 2001) pp The Role of the State in the Context of Good Governance and Electricity Management: Comparative Antecedents and Current Trends (Univ. of Pennsylvania Journal of International Economic Law, 2000) pp The State, Governance and Energy Regulation in Ghana (Law and Politics in Asia, Africa and Latin America, Germany, 2000) pp The Gabcikovo-Nagyimaros case and Trans-boundary Resource Exploitation (European Environmental Law Review 1999). 32. Land Ownership and Responsibility for the Mining Environment (Natural Resources Journal, 1998) pp The President, His Vice and the Constitution of Ghana (East African Journal of Peace and Human Rights, 1998) pp Shareholding in Mining Companies in Ghana (Journal of Energy and Natural Resources Law, 1997). 35. Pre-colonial Methods of Gold Mining and Environmental Protection (Journal of Energy and Natural Resources Law 1995). 36. Forests Reserves under the Law (Ghana Law School Journal, 1993). 37. Intestate Succession Law: Issues Arising (The Counsel, 1992). Shorter Commentaries and Reviews 38. Thomas Grey, Formalism and Pragmatism in American Law (Modern Law Review, 2016). 39. Yenkong Ngandjoh Hodu & Zhang Qi, The Political Economy of WTO Implementation and China s Approach to Litigation in the WTO (Chinese Journal of International Law, Oxford Univ. Press, 2017). 40. Leoni Reins, Regulating Shale Gas (JWELB, Oxford Univ. Press, 2017)

5 41. The Contested Empowerment of Kenya s Judiciary, : A Historical Institutional Analysis. By James Thuo Gathii. (43 Commonwealth Bulletin, 2017). 42. Oil and Gas Regulation Legal Regime in Qatar, Encyclopaedia of Natural Resource Law, (Springer, Germany, 2016). 43. Challenging the Efficiency of Nuisance and Appreciating the Margins of Human Rights (J. of Environmental Planning and Management, 2004). 44. The African Union Act and Natural Resources, (JENRL 2004). 45. Emmanuel Laryea, Paperless Trade: Challenges and Solutions (ICLQ, 2004). 46. Fumi Olonisakin, Reinventing Peacekeeping in Africa: Conceptual and Legal Issues, (ICLQ, 2003). 47. Zhiguo Gao, Environmental Regulation of Oil and Gas (JENRL, 1999). 48. Gorman et al, Decommissioning Oil Installations (JENRL, 1998). 49. Publication by Emerging Academic (Academics Forum, 1999). 50. Natural Resources; Oxford Companion to Law (Oxford Univ. Press, 2008). 51. Editorial, Global Journal of Comparative Law (2012). 52. Comparative Law in a Global Context, International Review of Law (2013).