He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and from 2010 to 2013 was Chair of the Australia branch. From 2017-2020 John was the Australasian member of the board of trustees of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK). John is a Fellow of the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (ACICA), and the independent member of the ACICA Appointment Committee. John is a qualified mediator (NMAS) and teaches, writes and speaks regularly on issues in alternative dispute resolution.
In 2009, John was appointed a judicial member (part-time) of the Administrative Decisions Tribunal of New South Wales. Since 2014, he has been a senior member (part-time) of the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal sitting in the Administrative and Equal Opportunity and Occupational Divisions and on the Appeal Panel.
He is the immediate Past President of the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration; he is a Fellow, Chartered Arbitrator and a Past President of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London (2011), 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, Fellow of the Arbitrators & Mediators Institute of New Zealand Inc., President, Dispute Review Board Foundation Australia, member of the ICC Australia Arbitration Committee, Council Member, International Federation of Commercial Arbitration Institutions (IFCAI), and a member of a number of panels of International Arbitral bodies.
In June 2012 in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List, Doug was made an Officer of the Order of Australia, for distinguished service to the law as a leader in the areas of arbitration and alternative dispute resolution, to policy reform, and to national and international professional organisations.
In January 1999 Doug was made a Member of the Order of Australia in recognition of his services to construction law and dispute resolution.
His expertise in International Arbitration and Construction has regularly been recognised by his peers.
Bronwyn practises in international dispute resolution and has over 20 years’ experience in international commercial arbitration and major commercial litigation (focussing primarily on trans-national disputes). She also has experience in mediation and sits as an arbitrator.
Bronwyn is a Fellow of the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration, a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, a member of the Law Council of Australia’s Federal Dispute Resolution Executive and International Law Section ADR Committee, a director and Vice-Chair of the Melbourne Commercial Arbitration and Mediation Centre and member of MCAMC Advisory Committee, a panel arbitrator for the Singapore International Arbitration Centre, a member of the board of ArbitralWomen and a councillor of the London Court of International Arbitration Asia Pacific Users Council.
Bronwyn was a founder and the inaugural co-chair of the Australasian Forum for International Arbitration and served for over 10 years as a member of the Australian Federal Attorney General’s International Legal Services Advisory Council.
She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Chartered Civil Engineer, Fellow of the Engineers Australia, and Certified Practising Risk Manager of Risk Management Institute of Australasia.
Additionally she has been instrumental in the development and implementation of the use of Alternate Dispute Mechanisms in the construction industry in the Orient, Europe and the Middle East.