| Maryan Hassan is a Scholar-in-Residence in the International Arbitration Practice Group at WilmerHale, London. She was, until her resignation in June 2020, the Chief Negotiator for WTO Accession at the Office of the President, the youngest woman ever appointed, and former Chief Legal Adviser to the Prime Minister of the Federal Government of Somalia.
Maryann Hassan was previously Legal Adviser to the Somali Mission to the UN in New York and is a panel member at the World Bank’s International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). She also founded the task force for the Horn of Africa’s first ADR Trade Disputes Centre (DJIAC), under the auspices of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD). |
