Mohamed el Roubi is a senior corporate and commercial lawyer with more than 26 years’ international experience across multinational organisations and a range of industries. He has worked in senior in-house and private practice roles across the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Asia Pacific and the United States, in highly regulated, multi-jurisdictional environments.

Mohamed is currently the principal of ei squared legal & governance, a legal and governance advisory practice based in Canberra. His previous roles include senior legal, governance, risk and compliance and data protection positions with multinational organisations in the energy, technology and resources sectors. He has extensive experience in business crime investigations and complex regulatory matters, including matters involving international enforcement agencies such as the US Department of Justice, the UK Serious Fraud Office and other global regulators.

Mohamed has strong governance credentials and experience in administrative decision making in regulatory contexts. He is a Fellow of the Governance Institute of Australia and a Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. In addition to his role as Vice Chair of the Australian Press Council, he has been appointed as a Member of the Legal Practitioners Admission Board of the Australian Capital Territory, effective 1 July 2026. In 2025 Mohamed served as a Councillor and Treasurer of the Council of the Law Society of the ACT, as well as a member of the Law Society’s Executive Committee and the Governance Review Working Group. He also served as the inaugural Chair of the Conduct Committee of the Council of the Law Society of the ACT until 30 June 2026.

Mohamed is admitted as a lawyer of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, is a registered practitioner of the High Court of Australia and is also an Attorney and Counsellor at Law in Massachusetts and the District of Columbia. He holds an unrestricted private practising certificate in the ACT.

Mohamed is based in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and is bilingual in English and Arabic.