Dr. Abdollah Khodabakshi is a practicing attorney with a demonstrative background in arbitration, litigation, and insurance. Dr. Khodabakhsi was a former judge with 16 years of experience hearing and judging myriad civil and commercial cases. He left the judiciary and joined the bar association as a first-class attorney. Dr. Khodabakhshi is a leading academic and practitioner in arbitration with more than 30 valuable publications in arbitration and being in numerous arbitration proceedings as arbitrator/chairman of arbitration/counsel. He has also extensive experience in other dispute settlement mechanisms such as negotiation and mediation.