Profile

Yosra Abid, Esq, LL.M., is a California-qualified attorney, with over five years of legal experience in the United States and Tunisia. Her focused areas of practice are arbitration, energy, and project finance.

She specializes in investor-state dispute settlement, commercial, and construction arbitration, in addition to project financing large-scale energy and infrastructure projects using conventional and Islamic project finance techniques.

Yosra's previous experience includes working as a Contract Lawyer at Debevoice & Plimpton LLP (New York), Inhouse Counsel at EPAC, Inc (Tunis), a legal Consultant at Gide Loyrette Nouel (Tunis), a Project Assistance Specialist at Crowell & Moring LLP (New York), and a Legal Intern at the International Center for Dispute Resolution (ICDR/AAA) (New York). Yosra is a graduate of New York University (NYU) School of Law and Pepperdine University School of Law, with two LL.M. degrees respectively in Environmental and Energy Law (2018) and International Dispute Resolution (2011).

Yosra is a Fulbright scholar, Erasmus Mundus fellow, and President of the Tunisian Association for ADR. She is author of a number of articles as well as speaker and trainer at several ADR events and workshops.