Professor Doug Jones AM RFD
President

Professor Doug Jones AM is one of the leading arbitrators in the Asia-Pacific region. He is a Sydney-based partner in the Australian law firm of Clayton Utz where he heads the International Arbitration and Major Projects Groups of the firm. Doug is a door tenant at Atkin Chambers,London.

His experience includes acting as Arbitrator and Counsel in major international Arbitrations, and advising on major projects in the areas of buildings, road and rail infrastructure, power, potable and waste water, mining infrastructure and processing, and on and offshore oil and gas. He has had extensive experience in PPP and PFI projects. Details of his arbitration experience can be found at www.dougjones.info.

He is currently President of the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration, was 2011 President of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London, and a Member of the LCIA Court, He is an Australian Government nominee on the ICSID panel of arbitrators and a foundation fellow and graded arbitrator of the Institute of Arbitrators & Mediators Australia, President, Dispute Review Board Foundation Australia, member of the ICC Australia Arbitration Committee, and a member of a number of panels of International Arbitral bodies.

In January 1999 Doug was made a Member of the Order ofAustraliain recognition of his services to construction law and dispute resolution.

His expertise in International Arbitration and Construction has regularly been recognised by his peers.

Doug Jones is named one of only five 'star individuals' in Australia, by Chambers Asia Pacific (2011).

The International Who's Who of Commercial Arbitration 2011- Doug Jones has been named as one of the Leaders Worldwide and is one of only three highly recommended individuals in Australia. It notes "Doug Jones at Clayton Utz is held in the highest esteem"

Alex Baykitch
Vice President

Alex's expertise is in the area of international commercial arbitration and complex cross border disputes. In Chambers 2009 Alex was singled out for his "stellar representation of clients in domestic and international arbitrations" arising from oil and gas, commodities and shipping related commercial disputes. His clients include banks and their underwriters, oil and gas corporations, mining and resources companies, as well as commodity traders, insurers and shipowners.

Described by Chambers 2008 as "fast rising and energetic ........ who has developed into one of Australia's strongest arbitration counsel", he has extensive experience of conducting arbitrations in the UK, Korea, Hong Kong and Australia. Alex also sits as sole and party appointed arbitrator, as well as chairman of arbitral tribunals. He is a member of the panel of arbitrators of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre and the China Maritime Arbitration Commission.

Alex also has long experience of conducting successful litigation in the Supreme, Federal and High Courts of Australia as well as expert determinations, references, mediations and other alternative forms of dispute resolution.

Ian Govey
Vice President

Ian Govey was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Government Solicitor in March 2010.

Ian's role involves managing around 700 staff in offices in all capital cities, providing legal services to the Australian Government and its agencies.

Ian has had a longstanding involvement with AGS through his responsibility for the oversight of legal services to government and as the inaugural head of the Office of Legal Services Coordination in the Attorney-General's Department in 1997. In this role he was responsible for work to establish the Australian Government Solicitor as a separate statutory organisation operating as a government business enterprise.

Prior to his current appointment, Ian had been Deputy Secretary of the Civil Justice and Legal Services Group of the Attorney-Generals Department since 2000.

In this position, he was responsible for a wide range of legal policy and programs including Commonwealth legal services, federalcourts and tribunals, alternative dispute resolution, international law,legal assistance, human rights, indigenous justice, constitutional law, family law, administrative law, copyright, personal property securities and native title.

Over the course of his career, Ian has held various legal and legal policy positions across government including as Assistant Secretary of the International Trade Law and Intellectual Property Branch and the Companies and Accounting Branch of the Attorney-General's Department, and as Principal Adviser (Business Law) with the Attorney-General's Department and The Treasury. He was also Counsellor in the Australian Embassy in Washington DC.

Ian is a member or director of a number of bodies including:
Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration
Australasian Institute of Judicial Administration
Australasian Legal Information Institute
International Institute for the Unification of Private Law
(UNIDROIT) (elected position).

Ian has a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) from the University of Adelaide and Bachelor of Economics from the Australian National University. He was admitted as a legal practitioner in 1975.

Peter Megens
Vice President

Peter Megens is a Partner of Mallesons Stephen Jaques where he specialises in construction, dispute resolution, arbitration, mediation, energy and natural resources, infrastructure and projects. Peter is a Chartered Arbitrator, Nationally Accredited Mediator, past Chapter Chairman and Councillor of the Institute of Arbitrators and Mediators Australia, and Vice-President of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Australian Chapter). Peter is also a Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators, a Member of the Building Disputes Practitioners' Society and Deputy Chair of the Law Council of Australia Construction & Infrastructure Law Sub-committee, Victoria. Peter practises in all Australian jurisdictions, New Zealand and the Asia Pacific generally.

Tony Samuel
Treasurer

Tony Samuel leads Sapere Forensic in Australia and is a former partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers in London and Sydney. He is a Chartered Accountant and holds a Diploma in International Commercial Arbitration. Tony has more than 25 years of post-qualification accounting experience, including 20 years with disputes, valuations, and intellectual property (IP) matters. Tony's focus is on the provision of expert accountancy and valuation services in commercial and IP disputes.

Tony has testified on nearly 30 occasions in 7 countries, including in the Federal Court of Australia, the NSW Supreme Court, the WA Supreme Court, the High Courts in the UK, Singapore and Malaysia, the Southern District of New York, various international arbitrations in Switzerland and Italy, domestic arbitrations in Victoria, Queensland and New Zealand, and in the UK Copyright Tribunal. He has testified as to the quantum of damages, the value of businesses and IP, accounting issues and the fraudulent diversion of funds.

Angela Bowne SC
Director

Angela Bowne is a Senior Counsel and a Member of the NSW Bar Association based in Sydney (http://www.blackstone.com.au)  She has practised since 1986 in a range of fields, in particular, intellectual property (copyright, patents, trade marks, design), franchising, confidential information, arts and entertainment law, information technology law, alternative dispute resolution. She has also had substantial experience in general commercial law, banking law, administrative law, company law and equity. She was a part-time member of the Copyright Tribunal of Australia 1998-2007.

Angela is an accredited mediator under the National Standards for Accreditation of Mediators, a member of the Supreme Court and District Court and ACICA mediator panels, and an expert determiner and arbitrator approved by the Bar Association. She is Chair of the Bar Association's Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee and Pre-Litigation Requirements Committee, and is a member NSW Supreme Court ADR Steering Committee. She is General Editor of Intellectual Property Precedents (LexisNexis), author of the ADR chapter and co-author of ‘Patent Litigation Precedents’ in that publication, and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of The Intellectual Property Society of Australia and New Zealand. She has served on the boards of a number of non-profit arts organisations, including Australian Theatre for Young People, UNSW Press/New South Publishing, Sydney Film Festival and International PEN Sydney, of which she was President. She is currently Chair of the atyp Foundation, a director of Synergy/Taikoz and a member of the Dean’s Advisory Council, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, UNSW . She chaired the NSW Bar Association's Media Awards Panel from 2004 to 2007 and has served on its Senior Counsel Selection, Equal Opportunity and Mediation Committees.

JOHN DIGBY QC
Director

John Digby practices predominantly in the area of commercial law, with significant expertise in engineering and construction law. John maintains an active practice in other areas in particular contract law, commercial arbitration and litigation in relation to information technology. He also practices in the area of international arbitration.

He is a lecturer at Melbourne University in the post graduate International Construction Law course which addresses the state of engineering and construction law in the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and New Zealand, and which has a heavy emphasis on the law of international arbitration.

John Digby has been briefed in substantial commercial litigation and commercial arbitration proceedings for a period of over 25 years, and since taking silk in 1993, as Senior Counsel, in many large and complex Superior Court commercial proceedings and commercial arbitrations throughout Australia.

John Digby is a past Chairman of the Victorian Bar Council and currently President of the Commercial Bar Association of Victoria.

DAVID FAIRLIE
Director

David Fairlie is a former senior partner of theSydneyoffice of Mallesons Stephen Jaques where he worked in the firm’s Dispute Resolution practice. In 2009 he was appointed General Counsel for Competitive Foods Australia Pty Limited.

David has acted for many of the major banks and financial institutions in Australia as well as handling the dispute work for a number of mining and resource companies, including their product liability claims and insurance disputes.

He has extensive experience in dispute resolution - both in managing large court cases and arbitrations, domestic and international, and in achieving negotiated solutions through the use of mediation and other alternative dispute resolution techniques.

David also specialises in World Trade Organisation matters, including anti-dumping disputes and providing advice on WTO obligations.

He is a NADRAC accredited mediator and a Fellow of the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration, and, in addition to his role as General Counsel, also practices independently as a mediator and an arbitrator.

In 1994, David was President of the Law Society of New South Wales, and remains actively involved in issues concerning the legal profession. Currently, he is the Chair of the Law Society’s Dispute Resolution Committee.

In 2010, David was also appointed a part time Judicial Member of the New South Wales Administrative Decisions Tribunal.

Warren Fischer

Warren Fischer is a civil engineer, company director and alternative dispute resolution practitioner from Queensland practising primarily in construction, engineering, mining and body corporate arenas.

Warren is the President of the Institute of Arbitrators and Mediators Australia (IAMA) of which he is a Fellow, Grade 1 Arbitrator, Accredited Mediator and Accredited Adjudicator.

Warren is also a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and managing director of Alternative Dispute Resolution Services Pty Ltd.

Over the past 25 years Warren has practised in Australia, Indonesia and the United Kingdom. Warren has spoken regularly and is co-author of The Adjudicator's Guide.

Warren's interests include corporate governance (including board positions with IAMA, St Joseph's School Bardon, Bardon Latrobe Junior Soccer Club and private corporations) and education (including five years as a career mentor for the QUT Law Faculty).

For more information see www.adrs.com.au

Richard Garnett
Director

Richard Garnett is a Professor of Law at the University of Melbourne. He has published books and articles in the fields of international arbitration, electronic commerce and private international law and is a consultant to industry and the legal profession.

Laurie Glanfield AM
Director

Mr Laurie Glanfield is the recently appointed Director General of the Department of Justice and Attorney General having been Director General of the Attorney General's Department since 1991. The Department administers and supports the system of courts in NSW in cooperation with the judiciary. The Department is diverse, incorporating such areas as the recently created NSW Trustee & Guardian, the Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages, the Crown Solicitor's Office and Corrective Services NSW.

Mr Glanfield has been the Secretary of the Standing Committee of Attorneys General since 1988, is the Chairman of the Criminology Research Council, Deputy President of the Australian Institute of Judicial Administration, Deputy Chair of the Australian Commercial Disputes Centre and Deputy Chair of the Australian Institute of Criminology Board.

Peter Harris
Director

Peter Harris is currently responsible for the implementation of the Federal Government's national broadband policy. People first took note of Peter when he was the private secretary to the Prime Minister from 1989 - 1991, after which he led the Industries Branch of the Prime Minister's Department.

After spending two years in Canada in the Office of the Privy Council, Peter returned to Australia to join the Commonwealth Department of Industry, Science and Technology as assistance secretary of Communications and Aviation in 1994. In 2001, Peter was vice-president of Government and International Affairs with the Air New Zealand/Ansett Group.

In 2002, he assumed the role of director of Public Transport in the Victorian Department of Infrastructure. In 2004 the Victorian Government placed him as Secretary of the Victorian Department of Primary Industries. In 2006 he moved to Secretary of Victoria's Department of Sustainability and Environment.

Malcolm Holmes QC
Director

Malcolm Holmes is a Senior Counsel based in Sydney (www.11thfloor.com.au) and is an arbitrator member of chambers at 20 Essex Street in London (www.20essexst.com). He is a chartered arbitrator, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK) and the immediate Past President of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Australia) Limited.

He has acted as an advocate or an arbitrator in numerous arbitrations of most types, both domestic and international, including insurance, general commercial, construction, industrial, sporting and maritime arbitration. He is a member of a number of panels of international arbitrators including the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC), the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) and the panel of international arbitrators for the International Centre for Dispute Resolution, the international division of the American Arbitration Association (AAA). He is a fellow of IAMA and an Adjunct Professor of International Commercial Arbitration at Sydney University and the University of New South Wales.

The Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG
Director

When he resigned in February 2009, from his office as a Justice of the High Court of Australia, Michael Kirby was Australia's longest serving judicial officer. He had served successively as a Deputy President of the Australian Conciliation & Arbitration Commission (1975-83); Chairman of the Australian Law Reform Commission (1975-84); Judge of the Federal Court of Australia (1983-4), President of the Court of Appeal of New South Wales (1984-1996) and President of Court of Appeal of Solomon Islands (1995-6).

He also served in many international bodies, including in OECD, the Commonwealth Secretariat, WHO, ILO, UNESCO, UNDP, UNODC and UNAIDS. He was president of the International Commission of Jurists (1995-8) and UN Special Representative for Human Rights in Cambodia (1993-6).

Since his retirement from the High Court of Australia, he has served as President of the Institute of Arbitrators & Mediators Australia (IAMA) (2009-10); as General Editor of The Laws of Australia (2009-); as an honorary professor at 11 Australian and overseas universities; as a member of the UNDP Global Commission on HIV and the Law (2010-); appointed to the ICSID arbitration panel for the World Bank; and as a member of the Eminent Persons Group of the Commonwealth Secretariat on the future organisation of the Commonwealth. In June 2010, he was named co-winner of the Gruber Justice Prize.

Visit www.michaelkirby.com.au for more details.

David Kreider
Director

David Kreider is General Counsel to Vodafone New Zealand, the country's largest mobile network operator. He is responsible for running Vodafone's in-house Legal Department and also sits on the Company's Executive Leadership Board. A specialist in dispute resolution, he regularly advises in the drafting of dispute resolution clauses. He has successfully guided Vodafone through arbitration and litigation proceedings in New Zealand and in other of the 23 countries where Vodafone operates telecommunications networks.

David began his 30-year legal career as a commercial trial lawyer in the United States, where he took more than 70 cases to trial and prosecuted numerous appeals. He is a licensed attorney-at-law in Florida, New York, New Jersey, California and the District of Columbia, and a Hong Kong and English solicitor. He is admitted to practice before The United States Supreme Court and numerous lower state and federal courts. He has held senior positions in government, as Chief of the Enforcement Division of the New York Regional Office of the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission and as Director of Corporation Finance of the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission. A Mandarin Chinese speaker, prior to joining Vodafone, David was based in Hong Kong where he was General Counsel to China's flagship mobile network operator, China Mobile.

A Chartered Arbitrator and CEDR Accredited Mediator, David holds a Diploma in International Commercial Arbitration from Keble College at Oxford. He is a Member of the Board of Directors of the American Arbitration Association, a Member of the ACICA Board of Directors, and a Member of the CPR Institute's Asia Pacific Advisory Council.

David and has been appointed as arbitrator in a wide range of cases, involving telecommunications, computer, mergers and acquisitions, and China-related business matters, including among them complex, multi-party cases involving very significant dollar amounts. He is a Panelist on the Panel of Arbitrators of the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR), the Korea Commercial Arbitration Board (KCAB), the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC), the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC), and ACICA, among other arbitral institutions.

Judith Levine
Director

Judith Levine is legal counsel at the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in The Hague, an intergovernmental organisation which provides services for the resolution of disputes involving various combinations of states, state entities, intergovernmental organizations, and private parties. The PCA’s current caseload encompasses commercial, investment, territorial, treaty, environmental and human rights matters. From June 2011-May 2012, Judith served as PCA Representative in the Mauritius office, promoting international dispute resolution in the African region.

From 2003 to 2008, Judith was an attorney in the international arbitration group in the New York office of White & Case LLP where she represented sovereign states and corporations in disputes in Asia, North America, Latin America, the Middle East and Europe, including under the Rules of the ICC, ICSID, the AAA and UNCITRAL. Those matters related to diverse industries including oil & gas, power, telecommunications, banking, construction and pharmaceuticals. Judith also advised clients on drafting arbitration clauses for contracts and on public international law. Judith's prior experience includes working at the International Court of Justice, serving as an adviser to the Commonwealth Attorney-General and as an associate at the High Court of Australia.

Judith has lectured at UNSW, the University of Mauritius, and for the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. From 2006 to 2008, she was a member of Australia's delegation to the UNCITRAL Working Group on International Arbitration.

Geoff McClellan
Director

Geoff McClellan is a Senior Litigation Partner at Freehills, a major Australian Law Firm. He is widely recognised as one of Australia's leading commercial litigators. He was Chairman of Freehills for six years.

His experience is with complex disputes across a range of legal areas including securities law, taxation law, insolvency, corporations law, trade practices law, contract law, professional negligence, media law and industrial law. He has experience across a broad range of dispute resolution processes and forums.

Khory McCormick
Director

Khory is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, a Committee member of AFIA, Law Society Approved Mediator and Arbitrator and Supreme Court approved Mediator.

Khory's opinion is sought by leading corporate and public sector participants on diverse strategic and operational issues. For over 20 years he has been at the forefront of cutting edge commercial, public sector, resources and major projects, industrial law and media litigation and advisory work. Khory has advised all levels of government on strategic issues and significant disputation matters, private sector participants on the impact on rights and contractual obligations.

He is an Adjunct Professor at both University of Queensland and Griffith University. He is also currently Chair of Green Cross Australia and National Board Member of Minter Ellison.

Peter McQueen
Director

Peter McQueen provides his services as an arbitrator, mediator and facilitator, in respect of commercial disputes, in particular those relating to transport and trade matters.

He is a qualified arbitrator and an accredited mediator.

Peter is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Director of the Austarlian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (ACICA) and the inaugural Chair of the Australian Maritime and Transport Arbitration Commission (AMTAC).

He has had over 30 years prior experience practising internationally as a lawyer, specialising in maritime, aviation, trade and transport law and representing transport operators, traders and service providers and their insurers in court, arbitration and mediation proceedings.

During that time Peter has been recognised internationally as a leading lawyer by:

• Best Lawyers - Maritime/Aviation/Trade
• Euromoney's Best of the Best Guide to the World's Leading Shipping & Maritime Lawyers
• Euromoney's Guide to the World's Leading Aviation Lawyers
• International Who's Who of Aviation Lawyers
• Asia Pacific Legal 500 - Transport

Gabriël Moens
Ph B, JD (Hons), LLM, Ph D, GCEd, FCIArb
Director

Gabriël Moens is Pro Vice Chancellor of Law, Business and Information Technology at Murdoch University.  Prior to this, he was Dean and Professor of Law of the university and served as Professor and Head of the Graduate School of Law at the University of Notre Dame Australia, and Garrick Professor of Law and Director of the Institute of Foreign and Comparative Law at the University of Queensland. He is the Editor of International Trade and Business Law Review and other scholarly journals. In 2003 the Prime Minister of Australia awarded him the Centenary Medal for services to education. Professor Moens is a Membre Titulaire of the International Academy of Comparative Law, Paris. He serves as an Adjunct Professor of Law at City University of Hong Kong, the University of New England and the University of Notre Dame (London Law Centre). He is an experienced international commercial arbitrator. He has twice coached the T.C. Beirne School of Law team to win the prestigious Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot in Vienna. Professor Moens is also a Fellow (FCIArb) of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London, and is a Fellow and Deputy Secretary General of the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (ACICA). He has co-authored a Commentary to the ACICA Arbitration Rules.

Ian Nosworthy
BA, LLB, LFIAMA, FCIArb, AIPM
Director

Ian Nosworthy is a barrister, arbitrator and mediator from South Australia, who practises nationally and internationally in litigation, arbitration and mediation, particularly in insurance, construction, engineering and commercial disputes.

Ian is a past President of the Institute of Arbitrators and Mediators Australia (IAMA), of which he is a Life Fellow. He is a Grade One Arbitrator and a Nationally Accredited Mediator, a Fellow and Councillor of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and a Chartered Arbitrator. He is the Treasurer of the Law Council of Australia's Business Law Section, and Deputy Chairman of its Construction Law Committee. He has been involved in major litigation, arbitration, mediation and expert determination for more than 25 years, and is the senior partner of Nosworthy Partners in Adelaide.

Ian has represented Australia and IAMA on a number of overseas legal services missions to Malaysia and China, including missions led by Attorneys-General Williams and Ruddock. Ian has written and spoken widely nationally and internationally, and is the author of numerous published papers.

His interests include his role as the Honorary Solicitor of Gymnastics (SA) of which he is a Life Member.

For more information and Ian's papers see www.nospart.com.au.

Georgia Quick
Director

Georgia Quick is a partner at Blake Dawson and head of the International Arbitration Group. She specialises in dispute resolution and risk management in the areas of energy, construction and major projects.

Georgia worked for the UK's premier construction law firm, Pinsent Masons for 7 years (returning in 2005) practising primarily in international arbitration for energy clients. Georgia has been involved in ICC, LCIA and adhoc international arbitrations involving numerous jurisdictions including England, Europe (Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Germany and Russia), Nigeria, India, Philippines, and Hong Kong. She has extensive experience conducting and advising both contractors and principals in respect of FPSOs, power plants, offshore platforms, water treatment plants, material handling facilities, educational and commercial developments, land excavation and reclamation, rolling stock and airport facilities.

Georgia regularly advises in respect of dispute resolution clauses and presents on the subject of international arbitration and other forms of dispute resolution. She is a Fellow and Councillor of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Australia), an accredited mediator - Australian Commercial Dispute Centre (ACDC), member of the Australasian Forum for International Arbitration (AFIA) and Arbitral Women. Georgia is also the Vice President of the NSW branch of AMPLA, the Energy & Resources Lawyers Association.

PROFESSOR Rashda Rana
Director

Rashda Rana is a barrister practising from the London and Sydney Bars. She has worked in various states in Australia (primarily in NSW). Rashda has advised on and conducted major commercial, maritime and construction & infrastructure litigation, arbitration and mediation involving wide ranging issues. She has advised and appeared in all stages of curial and arbitral proceedings from initiation (or defence) of the dispute through to all types of interlocutory processes, trial, appeal and enforcement. In most of these proceedings she has managed large teams of lawyers comprising junior counsel, solicitors and paralegals. She also worked as General Counsel for the project management & construction business of Lend Lease Australia for over 2 years.

As well as here litigious practice, Rashda has undertaken non-contentious work in drafting, reviewing and settling major project documentation including Defence contracts (Class 1 submarines), infrastructure (roads and tunnels), banking and finance documentation (prospectuses and insurance policies) and PPPs (Sydney Metro, New Royal Adelaide Hospital, Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre and Sunshine Coast University Hospital).
Rashda has built a reputation as an astute and formidable lawyer and enjoys the respect of many of her peers in England, Australia and in many jurisdictions in South East Asia. Her reputation has resulted in her appointment as Adjunct Professor teaching international commercial arbitration at Sydney University Law School. She devised the course and it is the first of its kind in Australia.

Rashda is an active member of a number of significant industry associations. She is the Australian representative to the ICC Taskforce on Subcontracting and the ICC Taskforce on Public Procurement. She is, inter alia, the Founding Member and the current Secretary of the newly formed Society of Construction Law, Australia, a Fellow and Director of the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (ACICA), Fellow of Institute of Arbitrators & Mediators Australia (IAMA), Fellow of Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) and Fellow of Commercial Law Association of Australia (CLAA).

Rashda is an accredited mediator and arbitrator and has been appointed in a number of of domestic and international arbitrations.

Robert Regan
Director

Robert Regan is a senior construction law Partner at Corrs Chambers Westgarth.

Robert specialises in construction and engineering dispute resolution law, including litigation, arbitration and other alternative dispute resolution processes. He has been recognised as a leading lawyer in both Australian and international publications.

His experience in complex disputes extends to matters arising out of PPP and PFI projects and acting for international joint ventures in connection with major infrastructure and engineering projects.

Robert has served on the Executive Team of Corrs Chambers Westgarth for the past eight years.

Ron Salter
Director

Ron Salter has practised for over 40 years as a litigation/dispute resolution lawyer with an emphasis on transport, maritime law and marine insurance. He was a partner at what is now DLA Piper Australia for 37 years, and remains a consultant to that firm.

He is a past president and honorary life member of the Maritime Law Association of Australia and New Zealand and is presently chairman of the Association's Arbitration Committee. He is a former member of the Executive Council of Comite Maritime International and is a titulary member of that organisation. He has also served as vice-chairman of the Maritime and Transport Law Committee of the International Bar Association.

He is presently a director of ACICA and is also a councillor and director of the Australian Branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

Ron 

 Ron is a Fellow of ACICA, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a Chartered Arbitrator. Previously, when a member of the Institute of Arbitrators and Mediators Australia, he was a Grade 1 arbitrator.

He is also a member of arbitration panels operated by a number of institutions such as the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre, the Singapore International Arbitration Centre, the Singapore Chamber of Maritime Arbitration, the Maritime Law Association of Australia and New Zealand and the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He is also a member of International Maritime Conciliation & Mediation Panel.

Ron regularly acts as arbitrator or mediator, both domestically and internationally, in a variety of commercial disputes, including shipping, aviation, insurance, trade, commodities, partnerships, travel, property, professional liability, and infrastructure projects. He has been listed in four separate Euromoney Guides to the World's Leading Lawyers (shipping and maritime, litigation, insurance and reinsurance, and commercial arbitration), as well as in publications such as Who's Who Legal, the International Who's Who of Shipping Lawyers, the Asia Pacific Legal 500, and Asialaw Leading Lawyers.

Michael Shand QC
Director

Michael Shand QC has practised at the Victorian Bar since 1980 in general commercial law, corporations law, insurance, professional negligence, administrative law and equity and trust matters.

He was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1997.

He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and has been accredited as a Chartered Arbitrator.

He served in 2005-6 as the President of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Australia) Limited and in 2006-7 as the Chairman of the Victorian Bar Council. He is a former director of Barristers' Chambers Ltd.

He has served as Chancellor of the Anglican Diocese Ballarat since 2002 and Chancellor of the Anglican Diocese of Melbourne since 2007. He is the President of the Episcopal Standards Board of the Anglican Church of Australia.

Oscar Shub
Director

Oscar Shub is a well recognised figure in the insurance and reinsurance industry. Since 2004, Euromoney Legal Media Group and the Best of the Best Euromoney publication research studies have placed Oscar in the top 10 insurance and reinsurance lawyers worldwide.

Oscar's expertise was recently recognised by publications such as Chambers Global and Asia Pacific Legal 500, both of which rank him in the international top tier of insurance lawyers and a Senior Statesman.

For over 35 years, Oscar has been a leading litigator in insurance and reinsurance disputes, including professional indemnity, directors and officers' liability, engineering, construction, plant and machinery, health and product liability - Chambers Global, 2008.

He has handled both facultative and treaty reinsurance matters extensively.

Oscar contributes to the insurance and reinsurance industry as a whole through leadership, education and innovation. He is a past chairman of the NSW Branch of the Australian Insurance Law Association. He is also a leader in alternative dispute resolution and was an inaugural member of the NADRAC Council advising the Federal Attorney General on alternatives to litigation. Oscar is a past national chairman of Lawyers Engaged in Alternative Dispute Resolution (LEADR) and is an accredited mediator on LEADR's advanced panel.

Oscar is the head of the Allen Arthur Robinson's Insurance and Reinsurance practice group. In this role, he oversees over 18 partners and 50 staff throughout Australia and Asia. The group has one of Australia's premier insurance and reinsurance practices and also produces one of the country's leading insurance and reinsurance publications, the Annual Review of Insurance and Reinsurance Law. In 2006, Allens Arthur Robinson was awarded the Law Firm of the Year by ANZIIF (Australian and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance) at the Australia and New Zealand Insurance Industry Awards.

Oscar and his team also regularly present to members of the insurance industry in Australia, the United Kingdom and Asia on insurance issues.

Oscar's recent major matters include some of Australia's leading and most complex insurance disputes, investigations and arrangements. He is well known for his tactical and negotiating skills.