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The Hon Trevor Morling QC
Chairman

Mr Trevor Morling was for many years a judge of the Federal Court of Australia. He also held commissions as an appeal judge in Tonga, Vanuatu and Western Samoa. He was also for many years Chairman of the Australian Electoral Commission.

Since retiring from the Bench he has been actively engaged as an arbitrator and mediator, particularly in Europe.

Mr Jim Barrett
Director

J D (Jim) Barrett is the Director of Construction and Infrastructure of the Australian Industry Group. Prior to joining Ai Group in 1995, Jim was Director Development with the Federal Government’s Construction Industry Development Agency from 1991 - 1995.

Jim is also Executive Director of the Australian Constructors Association (ACA), an organisation formed in 1994 to represent the views of major contractors to Federal and State/Territory Governments and other major industry organisations.

Jim is a Director of the Australian Construction Industry Redundancy Trust, a Director of the Construction and Property Services Industry Skills Council Limited and a Director of the Australian Certification Authority for Reinforcing Steels Limited.

Jim is also a founding member of the Australian Chapter of the Dispute Resolution Board Foundation and a member of the Federal Safety Commissioner’s Industry Reference Group.

Mr 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.

Professor Doug Jones AM RFD
Director

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 experience can be found at www.dougjones.info.

He is currently the President of the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration, Vice President of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London (President Elect 2011), a foundation fellow and graded arbitrator of the Institute of Arbitrators & Mediators Australia, President, Dispute Review Board Foundation Australia and a member of a number of panels of International Arbitral bodies.

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

Doug is ranked Tier 1 - Most in Demand Arbitrator in Chambers Asia 2009, he is ranked (sole) Leading Lawyer in Australia in PLC Which Lawyer 2009/2010, and noted in Chambers Asia 2008 as “a leading light for Asia-Pacific arbitration work.”.  He is named in The International Who's Who of Construction Lawyers 2008 as one of the Most Highly Regarded Individuals - Global.  He is the only Australian lawyer nominated in the prestigious global list of the top nine lawyers.

Ms Bronwyn Lincoln
Director

Bronwyn is a partner at Freehills, Melbourne.

Bronwyn has significant experience and expertise in international commercial arbitration and trans-national disputes, both within Australia and offshore, particularly in Europe and Asia, and is a graded arbitrator.

Bronwyn is an associate member of the Institute of Arbitrators and Mediators Australia and a member of the International Bar Association (Business Section). Bronwyn was the inaugural regional representative for Australasia for the Young International Arbitration Group of the London Court of International Arbitration. In 2009 Bronwyn became a Fellow of the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration.

In 2004, Bronwyn was appointed as a member of the Federal Attorney General’s International Legal Services Advisory Council and chairs the Council’s International Commercial Dispute Resolution committee. She is a member of the Executive of the Federal Litigation Section of the Law Council of Australia and the Federal Court Liaison Committee and was an inaugural co-chair and founder of the Australian Forum for International Arbitration. In 2009 Bronwyn was appointed a board member of Arbitral Women.

In 2010 Bronwyn was appointed a Councillor of the London Court of International Arbitration Asia-Pacific Users’ Council.

Bronwyn is a member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration Task Force on ‘National Rules of Procedure for Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Awards pursuant to the New York Convention of 1958’.

Bronwyn was a finalist in the Telstra Business Women’s Awards in 2009.

Ms Nancy Milne OAM
Director

Nancy Milne is "highly regarded for her banking and finance litigation practice as well as international arbitration." PLC Which Lawyer 2008

Nancy Milne is a Consultant with Clayton Utz. She is one of Australia's leading insurance and reinsurance lawyers, and an experienced commercial litigator, having acted in many major professional negligence and directors' liability cases, as well as some of the leading insurance coverage disputes.

Nancy's standing has led to appointments by the Federal Government to the Medical Indemnity Policy Review Panel and to review the Insurance Contracts Act with Alan Cameron. Her outstanding work as an insurance lawyer has been recognised by an Order of Australia Medal.

In recent times, Nancy spends more time as a non-executive director of various companies. She was voted by peers as one of Australia's Best Lawyers (2010) in Insurance.

Mr Michael Talbot FAIM
Director

Michael Talbot is the Assistant Director General Courts & Tribunal Services of the NSW Attorney General’s Department.

He was appointed to his present role in September 2007. From December 2004 he was responsible for Corporate Services. He joined the Department as Director of Court Services in March 2004. Prior to that Michael was the National Group Manager for retail operations in Australia Post and has occupied a number of senior executive positions in both the public and private sectors.