The University's renowned Centre for Energy Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy has pulled off a major coup by appointing a senior figure in the World Bank - one of the world's leading lawyers and an architect of the global economy. Egypt born Dr Ibrahim Shihata is to become professor in the international business transactions programme at the centre teaching international financial law. Dr Shihata's association with Dundee goes back some years - he received an honorary degree in 1995. The centre's innovative approach has combined an internet and distance-learning programme with globally oriented executive training, large-scale consultancy and information services and an internet-based global network. The programme has grown out of the CEPMLP/graduate programme in international natural resources and energy law branching out into management (MBA) and energy policy and economics (MSC). Said Professor Thomas Walde, director of CEMPLP and holder of the Jean Monnet Chair for EU Economic and Energy Law, "We are absolutely delighted to have Professor Shihata joining our team. We expect to replicate our success in building the world's premier graduate school in natural resources, energy law and policy, and to extend that to the much wider field of business transactions in the global economy." After eminent positions as founder and director-general of the OPEC Development Fund, Professor Shihata became chief lawyer and senior vice-president of the World Bank. His most recent appointment was as Secretary-General of the World Bank's International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).
Dundee woos and wins senior World Bank figure 
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