Georges Affaki chairs the Banking Commission of ICC France and the Legal Committee of the Banking Commission. He acts as Honourary Chair of the ICC Task Force on Guarantees which he founded.
He led or participated in numerous ICC rule-drafting projects, including the URDG, ISDGP, UCP, and Docdex. He also chaired the revision of the P.R.I.M.E. Finance Arbitration Rules and co-chaired (with Claudia Salomon) the ICC Task Force on Financial Institutions and International Arbitration. He also chaired the French Arbitration Committee working group on Arbitration in Banking and Financial Matters. He acted as Rapporteur for the International Law Association Resolution on international jurisdiction over foreign bank branches, and chaired a Paris Europlace working group on dispute resolution in Islamic finance.
Georges Affaki is a Justice of the Qatar International Court, a Chartered Arbitrator, a member of the ICSID Panels of Arbitrators and Mediators, and a Professor of law at the University of Paris. He has served for two terms as a member of the ICC International Court of Arbitration. He practices in Paris and as a member of DesVoeux Chambers’ List of Neutrals in Hong Kong.
He is a Governor of the UNIDROIT Foundation. He led or participated in several law reforms in transition economies.
In 2019, he was appointed Foreign Trade Counselor of France by a Decree of the Prime Minister and was awarded the European Prize for Interdisciplinary Research. He holds trustee positions in a number of non-profit organisations and is actively engaged in community projects.