Doug Jones is a partner at Clayton Utz, where he is the national head of the major projects, construction and international arbitration practice groups. He practises in the following areas of law: major projects and infrastructure; construction; procurement (including large-scale infrastructure and construction); transport and logistics; government services and international arbitration.

Doug has extensive experience as arbitrator and counsel in international and domestic arbitrations under the ICC, LCIA, AAA, KLRCA, SIAC, DIAC and ACICA Rules. He has also been regularly involved in the use of ADR in international disputes.

He is a chartered arbitrator and president elect (2011) of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb), London, president of the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (ACICA), a foundation Fellow and graded arbitrator of the Institute of Arbitrators & Mediators Australia, an arbitrator member of the Society of Construction Arbitrators (London) and a member of the Australian executive committee of the Dispute Review Board Foundation. He is an editorial board member of Global Arbitration Review, co-editor-in-chief of the International Construction Law Review, editorial board member of the International Trade and Business Law Review and a member of the Melbourne Juris Doctor Advisory Board of the University of Melbourne.

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