Elaheh Ghorbani
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Dr Elaheh Ghorbani holds a PhD from the University of Shahid Beheshti, Tehran, Iran, in oil and gas law. In addition, she holds two LLMs one from the Center for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy (CEPMLP), University of Dundee in energy law and policy, and the other from the University of Shahid Beheshti, Tehran, Iran, in international business law. She is lecturer at various institutions and universities, including Petroleum University of Technology and Allameh Tabatabai University. She is attorney at law, legal consultant and arbitrator dealing with claims and disputes particularly in oil and gas industry.
She has been working at the National Iranian Oil Company as legal advisor since 2011 where she has been one of the drafters of Iran's new upstream contract, the so-called Iran Petroleum Contract or IPC, and NIOC's senior negotiator of various international petroleum contracts including but not limited to the development and production contract of Sohrab oil field, the development and production contract of Yaran oil field, the development and production contract of Shadegan oil field, the development and production contract of Kupal oil field, the development and production contract of Parsi and Paranj oil fields, and service contract for the development of Farzad-B gas field. She is also the former head of international contracts at the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC).
In addition, she was a visiting scholar fellow at the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) where she prepared a report about the upstream contracts under in the member states of OPEC for the OPEC Secretariat.