Karim MEDJAD
Associate and Founding partner

Karim MEDJAD is a Partner and co-founder of EKWA Consulting. He is both a practicing attorney, and a scholar in the field of private sector participation, business climate and FDI policy. Karim holds the Chair of International Development of the Enterprises at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers (CNAM), where he teaches international contract law.

Karim has 30 years of experience in negotiating and drafting international contracts (e.g., concession, privatization, high tech joint venture, etc.) and as a senior advisor at ministerial level in the design and implementation of policy, legislative and regulatory frameworks on a comprehensive range of issues(privatization, arbitration, FDI, WTO and EC accession, SME development…) with an emphasis on private sector participation and co-regulation processes.

Karim also has an extensive knowledge of East and West Africa, Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

Finally, as a professor with an experience of 25 years worldwide, Karim has an extensive experience in curriculum and module design and  delivery, for students and professionals.

Karim Medjad is a member of the Paris Bar and obtained a LL.M degree from Harvard Law School, a DEA in International Law and a PhD in Economics from the University of Paris 1 (Pantheon-Sorbonne).

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