Expertise:  Asser Harb was born on January 1, 1978 in Cairo and is currently serving as Egypt's State Counselor. He is primarily known for his international legal practice on behalf of the Arab Republic of Egypt that has obviously protected the Egyptian state coffers. He was appointed as a State Counselor by virtue of the Presedintial Decree No. 133/2003. His legal practice includes acting as counsel for the Arab Republic of Egypt in dozens of domestic and international arbitration proceedings, particularly in highly significant investor-state disputes involving major infrastructure projects and complex international transactions. He mainly aims to defend vigorously the public funds and interests of the Egyptian people in opposition to any fraudulent practices from the part of foreign investors in Egypt. He has argued most of the important cases where Egypt is a party thereto, such as the famous CRCICA case, Malicorp Lmited v. Egypt. He formerly served as legal counsel for Misr International Bank in Egypt, where he managed to develop unique legal researches in order to provide straight answers for difficult legal questions in each and every arena of banking laws, international trade law and the applicable internal policies and procedures. He was also recognised as the youngest member of the Technical Legal Committee of the Association of Egyptian Banks. He began his international legal practice through serving as an intern in Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Paris.
He wrote extensively in numerous areas of international investment and trade law involving the most controversial issues with emphasis on banking laws and investor-state disputes. The most popular of his publications are: • 'The Wrongful Acts of Independent State Entities and Attribution to States in International Investment Disputes", Transnational Dispute Management (TDM), December 2006. • The Abridged Law Dictionary (English/Arabic), Egyptian State Lawsuits Authority, Technical Bureau, January 2008. • "A Review of the Regulatory Treatment of Operational Risk according to Basel II", MIBank Horizon, April 2003. • "Applicable Rules to the Cross-Border Letters of Guarantee", Al Alam Alyoum, 18 January 2003.