Mispa Fri Awasum

Mrs. Mispa FRI AWASUM (PhD Cand., LLM, MSc (Hons), DLP, MCIArb) is a dynamic international arbitrator, mediator, season public speaker and policy expert with over a decade of experience in international trade, investment law, and dispute resolution. She currently serves as the Manager of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) Rwanda Branch, where she leads national training initiatives, capacity building, and advocacy for alternative dispute resolution across East Africa.

A rising force in Africa's arbitration and governance landscape, Mispa has served as tribunal secretary in complex international proceedings involving investment and commercial disputes and is currently undertaking her first appointment as an arbitrator. She is also a trusted advisor to investors on corporate social responsibility, ESG compliance, and conflict-sensitive business practices.

A multilingual speaker and award-winning human rights and Democracy advocate from the Senate of Maryland, Mispa holds multiple qualifications in law, gender, environmental policy, and development from institutions in Rwanda, Cameroon, and the UK. She is a member of CIArb (UK), AfAA, AYA, Young ICCA, African Women in Arbitration and the ICC YAAF.

Mispa is the Founder of the AWASUM Institute with specialized trainings, certifications, research and publication in Peace, Gender, Good Governance, Dispute Resolution Project Management & Environmental Sustainability and is passionately committed to promoting justice, equity, and sustainable leadership across Africa.

Mispa is Founder and Managing Director of AWASUM Global Consulting Group (AGC Group) a premier international consulting and legal services firm specializing in Law, Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), Arbitration, Public Policy, and Project Management. AGC Group is grounded in professional integrity, legal excellence, corporate governance, and transformative leadership providing high-level advisory, dispute resolution, Arbitration and Skill-Development Services to governments, corporations, development agencies, and multilateral institutions and firms across Africa and globally.