Professional Associations and Pro bono activities:

•Managing Editor of the African International Legal Awareness (AILA) Blog, since October 2016

•Executive Committee Member of the Africa Legal Initiative (ALI)

•Member of the American Bar Association (ABA), New York Bar Association (NYBA), Young International Arbitration Group (YIAG), ICC Young Arbitrators Forum (ICC YAF), ICDR Young & International Associates, Young Oil & Gas Energy Mining Infrastructure Dispute Resolution (OGEMID), Comité Français de l’Arbitrage (CFA40), FDI Moot Competition Arbitrators, Harvard Club of New York, France and UK and Harvard Women in France

•Member of the ICC Rising Star Young Finance Forum

•Co-Chair of the Harvard French Scholarship Fund

Awards and Certifications

•Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (MCIArb)

•Pro Bono Award, Chadbourne & Parke, 2013 (for work done on advising the government of Somalia on their Provisional Constitution)

•Completed the FIAA International Arbitration Advocacy Workshop, “Questioning of Expert Witnesses in International Arbitration,” Paris, December 2011

•Fulbright Scholar, 2008

•Arthur Sachs Scholar, 2008

•Recipient of the Harvard French Scholarship and Harvard French Scholar of the Year Award, 2008

•Agrégation (Teaching Degree) in Law, Economics, Management, 2007

Saadia is a dual-qualified lawyer admitted to the New York bar (and with admission pending before the Paris bar) and Counsel in the International Dispute Resolution (IDR) team of Gide’s London office. Prior to joining Gide in London, Saadia was part of leading US and UK's international firm's arbitration groups in New York and London as well as Gide's arbitration group in Paris. She advises and represents States and private entities on a wide range of contentious and non-contentious international dispute resolution law matters, in particular in international commercial and investment arbitrations and other public international law matters. Saadia has acted as counsel in investment and commercial arbitration proceedings conducted under the rules of various institutions, dealing with the laws of both civil and common-law jurisdictions, in particular in the energy, oil & gas and construction sectors in Asia, the Middle East and North Africa. Saadia’s experience also includes providing thorough advice to clients on drafting arbitral clauses under various rules including those of the ICC, the ICSID, the LCIA, the SCC and the Organization for the Harmonization of Business Law in Africa (OHADA), and acting as Secretariat for an arbitral tribunal in several ICC proceedings. Saadia regularly speaks at international arbitration conferences globally and has lectured in various law schools in international law.