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Doug Jones

Doug Jones is an international infrastructure and dispute resolution lawyer. He is a Sydneybased partner in the Australian law firm of Clayton Utz where he heads the international arbitration and major projects groups of the firm. Doug has extensive experience as arbitrator and counsel in international and domestic arbitrations under the ICC, LCIA, UNCITRAL, AAA, KLRCA, HKIAC, SIAC and ACICA Rules. He has also been regularly involved in the use of ADR including mediation in construction industry disputes. He is a Fellow and chairman of the board of trustees of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (London), vice president of the Asia-Pacific Council of the London Court of International Arbitration and vice chairman of the IPBA Dispute Resolution and Arbitration Committee, senior vice president of the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration, a Foundation Fellow and graded arbitrator of the Institute of Arbitrators & Mediators Australia, an arbitrator member of the Society of Construction Arbitrators (London), a member of a number of international panels of arbitral panels around the world, and a member of the Australian Executive Committee of the Dispute Review Board Foundation. He is Professorial Fellow of the Law School of the University of Melbourne, adjunct professor of law at Murdoch University and of the University of Notre Dame Graduate School of Law in Western Australia and honorary fellow of the Canadian College of Construction Lawyers.

Doug is acknowledged as a leading arbitrator in Chambers Global 2007, and Who's Who Legal 2007 and ranked as a 'Leading Lawyer - Dispute Resolution' in Asialaw Leading Lawyer 2007. In January 1999 he was made a member of the Order of Australia in recognition of his services to construction law and dispute resolution.

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