Chern on Dispute Boards

Dr Chern is a Barrister practising at Crown Office Chambers,London. Additionally he is a Chartered Architect, Fellow of theChartered Institute of Arbitrators, Fellow of the Dispute BoardFederation, Chartered Arbitrator, Accredited Mediator andAdjudicator and holds the degrees of BArch (Honours) inArchitecture and Engineering and Juris Doctor. He has practisedsince 1972 specifically in the areas of engineering andconstruction disputes in the United Kingdom, the EU andinternationally. As an adjudicator he is on numerous appointingbodies including the FIDIC President's List of ApprovedAdjudicators, The Dispute Board Federation (Geneva) Panel ofApproved Dispute Board Members, and the Institution of CivilEngineers (ICE) Dispute Board panel. He has extensive experience incivil and structural engineering design issues, supervision ofconstruction, contract management, construction insurance,arbitration, mediation, adjudication and other methods of disputeresolution. He has had over 580 engineering construction disputereferences and has served on over 100 dispute boards in that time,acting as chairman on most occasions. He has over 40 years'experience in arbitration, mediation and adjudication and hashandled complex international commercial and construction mattersin over 20 countries worldwide located in North and South America,Europe, the Middle East, China, and Africa. Dr Chern is a member of various panels, groups and committees bothin the United Kingdom and abroad including the FIDIC AdjudicatorsAssessment Panel and the Dispute Board Federation Advisory Panel,the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) DisputeResolution Committee, the Association Suisse de L'Arbitrage, theCivil Mediation Committee, the Society of Construction Arbitrators,and the Association of Consulting Engineers, and he is a Fellow ofthe Centre for International Legal Studies in Austria, Fellow ofthe Dispute Board Federation (Geneva) and its Secretary, anda sustaining member of the Dispute Resolution Board Foundation inthe United States. Additionally he is a dispute board trainer forboth the FIDIC, the DBF, RICS, and International Chamber ofCommerce (ICC) rules and procedures. In addition to this book, Dr Chern is the author of a large numberof papers and articles on dispute boards, construction disputes,and mediation and is the author of International CommercialMediation and The Law Of Construction Disputes bothpublished by Informa Publishing London. Additionally he is theco-author and subject editor for Emden's Construction Law: ADRand Dispute Boards published by LexisNexis Butterworths,London.