The Centre’s Honorary Vice Presidents are The Hon Lord Dervaird (Professor John Murray QC) and Hew R. Dundas. Both men are well known in the world of international arbitration, and will play a vital role in promoting the work of the Centre.
The Hon Lord Dervaird (Professor John Murray QC)
The Hon Lord Dervaird (Professor John Murray QC) is a former judge of the Court of Session. He has experience as an arbitrator and as counsel in numerous international arbitration proceedings, both institutional (LCIA, ICC, NAFTA, and ICSID) and ad hoc, in Scotland, England, France, Belgium, Switzerland, the USA, Canada, South Africa, Tanzania, India, the West Indies and Singapore. He is a Member of the Advisory Board of the International Arbitration Institute, and an Honorary Council Member of the Conciliation and Arbitration Centre for Advanced Techniques (ATA), both Paris. He wrote the National Report, Scotland, in the ICCA International Handbook on Commercial Arbitration in 1995. He is Emeritus Professor at the University of Edinburgh, and lectures on international arbitration at London (King’s College) and Strathclyde Universities.
Hew R. Dundas
Hew is a full-time international arbitrator, mediator and expert determiner in oil and gas, energy and general commercial disputes. He is a panel arbitrator in Scotland, Beijing, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, New York, Chicago, India and Kazakhstan, and is a member of the London Court of International Arbitration, the Swiss Arbitration Association, the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators and other leading arbitral institutions. He was President of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (which currently has approximately 12,000 members in 110 countries) in 2007. He made significant input into the Arbitration (Scotland) Act 2010 and has co-authored the definitive book on the Act. He is also a visiting lecturer and examiner in International Commercial Arbitration at Edinburgh University and at the Centre for Energy Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy at the University of Dundee, and lectures on international arbitration law at several other universities.