Meet the Programme Directors and Experts who lead and contribute to Expertise Institute programmes, bringing international practice and academic insight into every session.
Nicholas is a construction, energy, and international arbitration lawyer. He is a solicitor-advocate, chartered surveyor, accredited adjudicator, and mediator. Nicholas sits as an arbitrator and on dispute boards. He acts for contractors, employers, and governments in the building, construction, engineering, infrastructure, transport, energy, oil and gas, and process engineering sectors. Frequently selected to advise on high value complex projects including Hinkley Nuclear Power Plant, T5 Heathrow, Muscat Airport, The Louvre in Abu Dhabi, Expo 2020 in Dubai, CERN’s nuclear research facility, the world’s most leaning building at Capital Gate, Abu Dhabi, and substantial hydro power projects (including Africa’s largest hydro power project).
Renato is Professor of Law at King’s College London, where he is the Director of the Centre of Construction Law and Dispute Resolution. In 2025 he was appointed King’s Counsel (Hon) for his major contribution to English law.
An experienced arbitrator and counsel in international arbitration, he has a wide industry knowledge, including foreign investments, construction and engineering, steel and heavy industries, oil and gas, infrastructure, energy, IT and digital, IP, pharmaceuticals, transport, commodities, and consumer goods. He is a specialist in ICSID arbitration and ISDS more generally and has published widely on the subject. Having served for seven years as a UK Government lawyer, he is skilled in disputes involving states and issues of public and governmental policy.
He has worked as chair/president, wing member/party-appointed arbitrator, sole arbitrator and emergency arbitrator under most internationally used rules (ICC, SIAC, DIAC, CAM, etc.). He brings to his work as arbitrator also his substantial experience as counsel. Aware of the multi-cultural dimension of many international disputes and experienced in civil law and common law, he has worked across Europe, Africa, Asia and America.
Member of the ICC Arbitration and ADR Commission, Italy. Member of the ICC Task Force on Dealing with Corruption Issues in International Arbitration. Member of the Board of the International Construction Law Association and of Africa Construction Law. Admitted to the following panels and lists of arbitrators: SIAC, DIAC, SCCA, Polish Chamber of Commerce, Serbian Construction Dispute Resolution Centre panels and HKIAC panel of adjudicators and list of arbitrators.
A practising expert witness specialising in quantum and delay, Shaun Kumar advises on the financial and time impact of construction and engineering disputes across arbitration, adjudication and litigation. As Founder of adrSTOP, he leads a specialist panel of court-ready experts and brings hands-on experience in preparing robust, defensible expert reports and delivering independent, objective evidence before tribunals.
Alice is a construction lawyer at First Rail in the UK, and has worked as legal counsel for engineering, technology and construction companies and employers including Samsung, Salini (Webuild) APT, Permasteelisa, Daewoo, Eleclink (Eurotunnel), Cimolai (Steelworks), Emitec (UAE), Huawei, ADNOC, ARABSAT. She has experience of the major standard forms of contract including FIDIC, JCT and NEC. Her contentious experience includes Arbitration and Court cases such as: GERDP (Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam Project): value of ICC Arbitration claim 900Million USD (value of contract: 5BN USD); Eleclink v Balfour Beatty (ICC Arbitration claim: 300M GBP).
Her non-contentious experience in drafting and negotiating bespoke contracts including professional appointments, consultants and Sub-Consultants’ appointments, insurances, collateral warranties and negotiating amendments. She conducted mediations on various construction and engineering projects including Renewables, Mining, Dredging, Tunnelling, Cable l Solar panels, Battery Storage (UAE-Saudi Arabia) and cabling, railways, indirect burners, high voltage cables. She as also a part time lecturer at the College of Contract Management.
Andrea Carlevaris is a partner and co-head of the International Arbitration practice at BonelliErede.
Andrea is the President of the Italian Association for Arbitration (AIA) and of the International Supervisory Body of the OIC-AC (Organization for Islamic Cooperation-Arbitration Centre). Between 2012 and 2017, he has been the Secretary General of the ICC International Court of Arbitration and the Director of the ICC Dispute Resolution Services. He currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Asian International Arbitration Centre (AIAC), of the Arbitration and Mediation Centre of Armenia (AMCA) and of several other organizations. He is a member of the Milan Club of Arbitrators and of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR. Andrea is a former member of the Board of the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC). Between 2009 and 2012, he was a member of the ICC International Court of Arbitration.
Andrea has served as arbitrator under numerous arbitration rules, including those of the ICC, ICSID, the PCA, UNCITRAL and the LCIA. He regularly represents clients in international arbitration proceedings.
Andrea is the author of a monograph on interim relief in internation arbitration and of numerous publications on international law, conflicts of laws and arbitration law. He is the director of Diritto del commercio internazionale – The Law of International Trade and regularly contributes to, and serves on the editorial board of, several international law and arbitration journals.
Anneliese Day KC from Fountain Court is one of the leading Silks at the Bar, with a stellar reputation for being “a standout genius” who is “untouchable on her feet”. Anneliese’s practice as “a leading lawyer of her generation” covers all facets of commercial litigation and arbitration (as both lead counsel and arbitrator). She has worked on significant and complex cases (at both first instance and appellate level) in the UK and Ireland, Asia Pacific, the Caribbean, Europe and the Middle East.
Claire King is a partner at Fenwick Elliott LLP specialising in the resolution of both domestic and international construction, engineering and energy disputes. She has in-depth knowledge of the FIDIC form of contract and has worked across a wide range of sectors within the industry including in relation to power, desal, water / sewage treatment, data centres and nuclear implicated facilities. She is recommended in legal 500 for international arbitration and is an alumni of the King’s MSC for Construction Law for which she came top in her year both years running.
David Falkenstern is a Director at FenwayXn and a Civil Engineer with more than 25 years of experience in the construction industry. He is internationally recognised as a leading expert in delay and disruption, having been appointed in over 100 construction disputes and cross-examined by many of the world’s top construction lawyers and barristers. David is also an officer of the UK’s Society of Construction Law, where he chairs the Delay and Disruption Protocol drafting committee – the most widely referenced text on delay analysis worldwide. In addition, he has published widely in leading engineering and legal periodicals, speaks regularly at international conferences, and lectures at King’s College London.
David began his career at Jacobs Engineering as a planner, cost engineer, and civil engineer on major infrastructure projects before moving into consulting. Over the past two decades, he has advised clients on live construction programmes, forensic delay analysis, and dispute resolution, with project experience across sectors including power, transportation, oil & gas, petrochemicals, process plants, and commercial property. Recognised in Lexology as “incredibly hard working, highly responsive, and technically infallible,” he has also been ranked as a Global Elite Thought Leader.
Frequently appointed as an independent expert, David provides written and oral testimony in arbitrations, adjudications, and mediations, and has also served as a Tribunal expert supporting Dispute Adjudication Boards. His work focuses on planning, productivity, delay, and disruption analysis, with an emphasis on delivering clarity and resolution in complex construction disputes.
Dr. Winnie Jo-Mei Ma FCIArb is an arbitrator based in Australia and affiliated with The Arbitration Chambers in Singapore. She serves as a Council Member of the ICC Institute of World Business Law, and the Chair of the ICC Institute Prize Jury. She is also an Assistant Professor of Bond University, with 25 years of teaching appointments in Australia and Taiwan, including National Taiwan University, Soochow University, Adelaide University, and Newcastle University.
As an Honorary Adviser and former Deputy Secretary-General of the Chinese Arbitration Association, Taipei, Winnie led various institutional and legislative rule-making projects. As a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and former Convenor of the East Asia Branch Taiwan Chapter, Winnie introduced all levels of international arbitration courses to Taiwan.
Winnie’s doctoral thesis, Public Policy in the Enforcement of Arbitral Awards: Lessons for and from Australia”, has achieved more than 16,000 full-text downloads.
Edward specialises in the resolution of disputes arising from construction and infrastructure projects around the world in areas such as offshore wind, renewables, the power sector, offshore oil and gas, aviation and port developments. Edward has experience of all major forms of dispute resolution, including TCC Court proceedings, arbitration under the major institutional rules in Europe and Asia (including the LCIA, ICC, SIAC, HKIAC and UNCITRAL rules), adjudication, DAB proceedings, mediation and proceedings in the DIFC courts. Edward has particular experience of advising on projects based in Europe, the Middle East and Asia, having worked in Singapore from 2013 – 2015.
Giuseppe is an Italian qualified lawyer with experience in international arbitration and litigation before the Italian courts.
As an Associate at Fenwick Elliott, he advises and represents clients in both contentious and non-contentious matters, particularly focusing on disputes in the construction and energy sectors.
He holds a postgraduate degree in Construction Law and Dispute Resolution from King’s College London. Prior to joining Fenwick Elliott, he trained and practiced at an international law firm in Milan, where he represented clients in the commercial, construction, energy, and insurance sectors in both arbitration and litigation. He completed his undergraduate studies at Bocconi University in Milan.
Giuseppe is a regular contributor to leading publications on construction law and dispute resolution. His recent articles have appeared in the International Construction Law Review, the International Energy Law Review, the Kluwer Arbitration Blog, and the Italian journal Rivista Trimestrale degli Appalti.
In 2018, he was awarded the first prize by the European Society of Construction Law for his dissertation “Dispute Boards: A Comparative Study of International Practice”.
Jatinder has nearly 20 years’ experience in non-contentious domestic and international construction and project work. He acts for the full spectrum of clients involved in the development process, including financial institutions, pension and property funds, government departments, investors, developers, contractors, consultants, and tenants, advising from inception and procurement strategies to project completion. Jatinder has been noted as “extremely astute” in The Legal 500 UK guide regarding the development of a waste-to-energy facility in Essex.
Jatinder has broad experience of dealing with and negotiating many standard forms of contract, including the FIDIC, LOGIC, JCT, NEC, ICE, IChemE, RIB,A and ACE suite of documents. He also has considerable experience in drafting and negotiating bespoke construction and commercial contracts, including EPC contracts, bonds, guarantees, memoranda of understanding, heads of terms, consortium agreements, joint venture agreements, framework agreements, and facility management contracts.
Current President of the Executive Board of Region 2 of the Dispute Resolution Board Foundation (DRBF), Jeremy is a partner at Fenwick Elliott LLP, the UK’s largest construction law firm and is listed as a leader in his field in Who’s Who Legal: Construction 2021.
An accredited adjudicator and member of the CIArb Adjudication Sub-Committee, Jeremy is the co-author of Understanding the FIDIC Red and Yellow Book: A Clause by Clause Commentary, the third edition of which was published in 2018, and lead editor of Building Contract Disputes: Practice and Precedents. Jeremy is a member of the Board of Examiners on the Construction Law MSc programme at King’s College, and also teaches on the MSc Building Information Modelling Management Programme at Middlesex University.
John Beechey CBE is among the best-known arbitrators in the world. He has served as chairman, party-appointed arbitrator, or sole arbitrator on international arbitral tribunals in both ad hoc (including UNCITRAL) and institutional arbitrations under the Rules of all major arbitral institutions. John is a past President of the International Court of Arbitration of the ICC (2009-2015) and is the current Chairman of the Board of the BVI International Arbitration Centre.
For the last 30 years Michael Black KC maintained an arbitrator practice, accepting appointments as sole, party-appointed and chair in ad-hoc proceedings in England & Wales, Africa, India, Middle East, Russia, Singapore and China as well as under the City Disputes Panel, ICC, LCIA, SIAC, UNCITRAL, LMAA, SCMA and DIAC Rules. Michael has sat in over 150 arbitrations and throughout his career.
Michael has been highly regarded both as Counsel and Arbitrator for his contribution to the arbitral community. He is referred to as one of the “Most in Demand Arbitrators in the UAE“ and “… exceptionally fair, measured and thoughtful, whilst remaining utterly charming towards the parties. He is a consummate professional who is at the top of his game as an arbitrator, with decades of experience in complex commercial disputes all around the world” (Legal 500).
Michael has practiced in international arbitration appearing as Counsel in several leading English and Privy Council cases and now exclusively sits as a international arbitrator and mediator.
Throughout a career spanning more than 45 years, Michael’s practice has involved disputes relating to joint ventures, construction, energy, oil and gas, banking and financial services disputes, AI and technology, civil fraud and asset recovery, hedge funds and structured investment vehicles, company, partnership and insolvency.
Kelvin Aw is a Partner at CMS Singapore and a Co-Head of its Infrastructure and Construction practice, with almost 30 years of experience in the sector.
He has appeared before all levels of the Singapore Courts and in international and domestic arbitrations under ICC, SIAC, AIAC, and CIETAC rules, and is also experienced in statutory adjudications under Singapore’s Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act 2004, since inception. On the transactional side, he advises on major infrastructure projects across Asia, with a focus on rail, renewable energy, commercial developments, and data centre projects.
A graduate of the MSc programme in Construction Law and Dispute Resolution in King’s College London, Kelvin is also a Senior Accredited Specialist with the Singapore Academy of Law, a Fellow of the Singapore and Chartered Institutes of Arbitrators and a Senior Adjudicator with the Singapore Mediation Centre. Clients describe him as “exceptionally knowledgeable and pragmatic,” with an ability to “quickly assess the key risks and deliver clear, commercial solutions.” Recognised by Chambers, Legal 500, and Benchmark Litigation, he is also a sought-after speaker at industry conferences.
Margarita is a civil engineer and delay expert with over 20 years of experience in the construction industry, bringing deep expertise in forensic construction programming, project advisory services, and dispute resolution.
She has been engaged as a delay expert in numerous matters and advised clients on extensions of time, delay, and disruption analysis across a wide range of construction and engineering projects worldwide. Her impressive portfolio spans power generation, oil and gas, commercial and residential developments, skyscrapers, and transportation projects.
Mark specialises in advising on domestic and international construction, engineering and infrastructure projects. He acts for a wide range of clients including contractors, developers, consortiums, investors, and employers, advising on the full lifecycle of a project from its inception to project completion.
Mark has experience in advising on and negotiating amendments to all major standard form construction contracts including the JCT, NEC, FIDIC, LOGIC, IChemE and ICE suites of contracts. He also has considerable experience of drafting and negotiating bespoke construction documents used internationally, including EPC contracts.
Mark is ranked as a key lawyer for non-contentious construction by the Legal 500 UK, and is commended for “working with clients to get deals over the line” and “making himself available, working to deadlines and helping the client achieve successful outcomes”.
Michael Pogue is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (FRICS), a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (MCIArb) and sits as a Member of Council for the Academy of Experts (MAE).
Michael is based in London and regularly appointed as an independent quantum expert to provide opinion on all types of construction claims in international arbitrations and litigations. He is particularly adept at assessing claims with complex factual matrices such as inflationary impacts, defective works and the re-procurement and completion of works following termination.
Michael is consistently recommended and marked out as a Future Leader in Who’s Who Legal. He is recognised by his client and instructing solicitors as being “extremely thorough in his approach”, “able to see beyond the instructions given and raises matters of importance”; and “approachable, knowledgeable and an asset in the context of on-going litigation or arbitration”. His analysis and opinion have also been described as the “gold standard” by his instructing lawyers.
Michael is also a qualified barrister providing him with a deeper understanding of evidential and procedural aspects when providing expert opinion in international arbitration and commercial litigation.
Murray has enjoyed a diverse and rewarding career in the international construction industry, where prior to joining J.S. Held, Murray was the Founder and Managing Director of Sense Studio Limited. Specialising in dispute avoidance and resolution, he is a FIDIC President’s List international adjudicator and on the arbitration, dispute board, adjudication and mediation panels of CIArb, RIBA, RICS and CEDR, among others, working on significant appointments relating to construction disputes. His verifiable track record in dispute avoidance influences his work as a Dispute Board Member, and he is a Past President of Region 2 of the Dispute Resolution Board Foundation. In recent years, Murray has been appointed as Dispute Board Member for the €17bn ITER Project in France and also for the High Luminosity Project at CERN and more recently for a large nuclear project under the ICC DB Rules, an embassy project in Central Africa and a power project in West Africa.
He has developed specialist expertise in energy and transport projects, including airports and metro rail projects.
Nicholas is a highly experienced multi-jurisdictional lawyer, commercial arbitrator, and FIDIC-certified Adjudicator and Mediator with over twenty-seven years’ expertise in resolving disputes related to energy and infrastructure projects worldwide. He has an extensive practice across the Asia Pacific, Middle East, Africa, the Indian subcontinent, and Europe, including the UK. His work spans a variety of sectors, such as oil and gas, energy, transportation, and mining.
Nicholas acts both as counsel for clients and as an independent arbitrator, adjudicator, or mediator. He is committed to the fair and efficient resolution of commercial disputes, particularly those arising from complex engineering and infrastructure projects. He is a writer and regular contributor to legal publications in construction law and international commercial arbitration; he also serves as a visiting practitioner at King’s College London.
He maintains strong professional relationships with numerous arbitral institutions, including the LCIA, ICC Court of International Arbitration (Secretariats in Paris, Singapore, and Hong Kong), Singapore International Arbitration Centre, Japan Commercial Arbitration Association, and Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre, where he is empanelled as an arbitrator. Nicholas is also a member of the ICC Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution National Committee for the United Kingdom.
Peter Turner KC has over 30 years’ experience as an advocate, primarily in arbitrations but also in court. He also sits as an arbitrator.
Peter’s practice comprises investment-treaty arbitration (under the ICSID and UNCITRAL Rules and ad hoc, including administered by the Permanent Court of Arbitration), other matters involving issues of public international law, and complex and high-value commercial disputes, including post-M&A disputes and construction and engineering cases. His industry experience covers a wide range, from energy (including nuclear and renewable energy) to financial services and banking, from ground-handling at airports to manufacturing.
Doug Jones AO is an independent international commercial and investor-state arbitrator with over 40 years’ prior experience as an international transactional and disputes project lawyer. Doug has chambers in Sydney and Toronto and is a door tenant at Atkin Chambers in London. He is also an International Judge of the Singapore International Commercial Court. Doug has been involved as an arbitrator in over 190 commercial and investor-state arbitrations spanning over 30 jurisdictions around the world, and he has experience in disputes under a wide array of institutional and ad hoc arbitration rules.
Mohamed S Abdel Wahab is the founding partner and head of international arbitration, construction and energy at Zulficar & Partners, Egypt. He is also professor of international arbitration, private international law and English contract law at Cairo University; chair of the ICC Governing Body for Dispute Resolution Services; president of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (2025); dean of the Africa Arbitration Academy; and a member of the Curatorium of the Hague Academy of International Law, the ICCA governing board, the advisory board of the MIAC, the LACIAC Court of Arbitration, the ITA Academic Council and the PCA court. He is a fellow of the National Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution at the University of Massachusetts and associate fellow of the Centre for Private International Law and Centre for Commercial Law at the University of Aberdeen.
Mohamed has served as arbitrator, legal expert and counsel in more than 265 cases, involving parties from the Africa, Asia, Canada, Europe, the Middle East, the United States and Latin America, He is recognised as a world-leading arbitrator and arbitration practitioner in international investment and international commercial arbitration, construction law and practice, energy law and infrastructure disputes, African and Arab Laws, Islamic sharia, private international law and online dispute resolution.
Michael Pogue is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (FRICS), a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (MCIArb) and sits as a Member of Council for the Academy of Experts (MAE).
Michael is based in London and regularly appointed as an independent quantum expert to provide opinion on all types of construction claims in international arbitrations and litigations. He is particularly adept at assessing claims with complex factual matrices such as inflationary impacts, defective works and the re-procurement and completion of works following termination.
Michael is consistently recommended and marked out as a Future Leader in Who’s Who Legal. He is recognised by his client and instructing solicitors as being “extremely thorough in his approach”, “able to see beyond the instructions given and raises matters of importance”; and “approachable, knowledgeable and an asset in the context of on-going litigation or arbitration”. His analysis and opinion have also been described as the “gold standard” by his instructing lawyers.
Michael is also a qualified barrister providing him with a deeper understanding of evidential and procedural aspects when providing expert opinion in international arbitration and commercial litigation.
Margarita Papaioannou is a senior director in the Expert Services practice, based in the London office. She is a civil engineer and delay expert with 13 years of experience in the construction industry, specializing in forensic construction programming, project advisory services and dispute resolution.
Mark specialises in advising on domestic and international construction, engineering and infrastructure projects. He acts for a wide range of clients including contractors, developers, consortiums, investors, and employers, advising on the full lifecycle of a project from its inception to project completion.
Mark has experience in advising on and negotiating amendments to all major standard form construction contracts including the JCT, NEC, FIDIC, LOGIC, IChemE and ICE suites of contracts. He also has considerable experience of drafting and negotiating bespoke construction documents used internationally, including EPC contracts.
Mark is ranked as a key lawyer for non-contentious construction by the Legal 500 UK, and is commended for “working with clients to get deals over the line” and “making himself available, working to deadlines and helping the client achieve successful outcomes”.
Claire King is a partner at Fenwick Elliott LLP specialising in the resolution of both domestic and international construction, engineering and energy disputes. She has in-depth knowledge of the FIDIC form of contract and has worked across a wide range of sectors within the industry including in relation to power, desal, water / sewage treatment, data centres and nuclear implicated facilities. She is recommended in legal 500 for international arbitration and is an alumni of the King’s MSC for Construction Law for which she came top in her year both years running.
Jatinder has nearly 20 years’ experience in non-contentious domestic and international construction and projects work. He acts for the full spectrum of clients involved in the development process including financial institutions, pension and property funds, government departments, investors, developers, contractors, consultants and tenants, advising from inception and procurement strategies to project completion. Jatinder has been noted as “extremely astute” in The Legal 500 UK guide regarding the development of a waste-to-energy facility in Essex.
Jatinder has broad experience of dealing with and negotiating many standard forms of contract including the FIDIC, LOGIC, JCT, NEC, ICE, IChemE, RIBA and ACE suite of documents. He also has considerable experience of drafting and negotiating bespoke construction and commercial contracts, including EPC contracts, bonds, guarantees, memorandums of understating, heads of terms, consortium agreements, joint venture agreements, framework agreements and facility management contracts.
Giuseppe is an Italian qualified lawyer with experience in international arbitration and litigation before the Italian courts.
As an Associate at Fenwick Elliott, he advises and represents clients in both contentious and non-contentious matters, particularly focusing on disputes in the construction and energy sectors.
He holds a postgraduate degree in Construction Law and Dispute Resolution from King’s College London. Prior to joining Fenwick Elliott, he trained and practiced at an international law firm in Milan, where he represented clients in the commercial, construction, energy, and insurance sectors in both arbitration and litigation. He completed his undergraduate studies at Bocconi University in Milan.
Giuseppe is a regular contributor to leading publications on construction law and dispute resolution. His recent articles have appeared in the International Construction Law Review, the International Energy Law Review, the Kluwer Arbitration Blog, and the Italian journal Rivista Trimestrale degli Appalti.
In 2018, he was awarded the first prize by the European Society of Construction Law for his dissertation “Dispute Boards: A Comparative Study of International Practice”.
David Falkenstern is a managing director in the Expert Services practice, based in the London office. He is a civil engineer with over 20 years of experience in the construction industry. He specializes in providing expert advice and consultation on major construction projects in the areas of programming, programme assessment, planning, productivity, time impact, delay and disruption, with a focus on resolving disputes.
Current President of the Executive Board of Region 2 of the Dispute Resolution Board Foundation (DRBF), Jeremy is a partner at Fenwick Elliott LLP, the UK’s largest construction law firm and is listed as a leader in his field in Who’s Who Legal: Construction 2021.
An accredited adjudicator and member of the CIArb Adjudication Sub-Committee, Jeremy is the co-author of Understanding the FIDIC Red and Yellow Book: A Clause by Clause Commentary, the third edition of which was published in 2018, and lead editor of Building Contract Disputes: Practice and Precedents. Jeremy is a member of the Board of Examiners on the Construction Law MSc programme at King’s College, and also teaches on the MSc Building Information Modelling Management Programme at Middlesex University.
Alice is a construction lawyer at First Rail in the UK, and has worked as legal counsel for engineering, technology and construction companies and employers including Samsung, Salini (Webuild) APT, Permasteelisa, Daewoo, Eleclink (Eurotunnel), Cimolai (Steelworks), Emitec (UAE), Huawei, ADNOC, ARABSAT. She has experience of the major standard forms of contract including FIDIC, JCT and NEC. Her contentious experience includes Arbitration and Court cases such as: GERDP (Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam Project): value of ICC Arbitration claim 900Million USD (value of contract: 5BN USD); Eleclink v Balfour Beatty (ICC Arbitration claim: 300M GBP).
Her non-contentious experience in drafting and negotiating bespoke contracts including professional appointments, consultants and Sub-Consultants’ appointments, insurances, collateral warranties and negotiating amendments. She conducted mediations on various construction and engineering projects including Renewables, Mining, Dredging, Tunnelling, Cable l Solar panels, Battery Storage (UAE-Saudi Arabia) and cabling, railways, indirect burners, high voltage cables. She as also a part time lecturer at the College of Contract Management.
Murray has enjoyed a diverse and rewarding career in the international construction industry, where prior to joining J.S. Held, Murray was the Founder and Managing Director of Sense Studio Limited. Specialising in dispute avoidance and resolution, he is a FIDIC President’s List international adjudicator and on the arbitration, dispute board, adjudication and mediation panels of CIArb, RIBA, RICS and CEDR, among others, working on significant appointments relating to construction disputes. His verifiable track record in dispute avoidance influences his work as a Dispute Board Member, and he is a Past President of Region 2 of the Dispute Resolution Board Foundation. In recent years, Murray has been appointed as Dispute Board Member for the €17bn ITER Project in France and also for the High Luminosity Project at CERN and more recently for a large nuclear project under the ICC DB Rules, an embassy project in Central Africa and a power project in West Africa.
He has developed specialist expertise in energy and transport projects, including airports and metro rail projects.