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Dick Appuhn is a consulting engineer based in Rome Italy serving mainly the European design and construction communities.  His professional experience covers engineering design and construction management where he has been active since the 1960’s starting in the United States and moving to the international market place in 1970. His affiliations extend to the Association for Advancement of Cost Engineers, Society of Construction Law and the DRB Foundation where he served as President of the Executive and Region 2 Boards of Directors and as a member of the International Committee for Training. He is a member of the Contracts Committee for the European International Contractors Association.  Dick is an active arbitrator and adjudicator in Europe, Africa and the Far East. He was appointed to the Standing Committee for ADR of the International Chamber of Commerce Court of Arbitration. Dick is an affiliate member of FIDIC and is an accredited trainer and is registered on the President’s List of Approved Adjudicators. He graduated with BS and MS Degrees in Civil Engineering and Engineering Geology from the University of California at Berkeley. Dick is a recipient of the Al Mathews Award for Dispute Board Excellence, the DRBF's top honor. 

Çağdaş Evren Bayrak LLM, BScEng, DipAdj, FCIArb, MCIOB, FICCP, CPCM, PMP, CCME, is an award-winning experienced contracts claims and disputes professional and a FIDIC President’s List Adjudicator. He is a Civil Engineer with two Law degrees from UK, a chartered construction manager, and a fellow member of many other reputable international organizations. He has won FIDIC Contract Users' Award in 2021 among respected finalists. He has started his own practice, ProADR in 2019, which specializes in providing assistance on Contract Management, Claims, Dispute Avoidance and Resolution in the MENA region.

Ogün H. ÇİÇEK is graduated from the Middle East Technical University Department of Civil Engineering in 1991 with a bachelor's degree and a master's degree (Water Resources) in 1995. He has specialized in water and waste infrastructure projects, as well as development works,  providing engineering, procurement, contract management, project management, corporate development and capacity building services. He has also worked as DAB member for a couple of FIDIC Contracts and is member of DRBF. Ogün H. Çiçek has founded Aqwadem Consulting in 2005, and still works as the general manager of the company. Mr. Çiçek is Board Member of Association of Turkish Consulting Engineers and Architects ( member of FIDIC and EFCA) and his current responsibilities in the Association includes support to Dispute Adjudication Board (DAB) mechanism related services and related capacity development in the country.

Waleed El Nemr has 25 years of experience in contracts and claims management, encompassing positions in various international project management firms, such as Bechtel, Fluor Daniel, and Hill International. He has also assumed several roles during dispute resolution proceedings in construction projects, acting as arbitrator, expert adjudicator, an expert appointed by the tribunal, expertly appointed by an arbitration party, arbitrator, and dispute adjudication board (DAB) member. He is the Dispute Resolution Board Foundation (DRBF) country representative (Egypt) and Director representing MENA, Vice President of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators – Egypt Branch, and President of the Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering – Greater Cairo section. He is the author of numerous papers and a speaker at numerous conferences, seminars, and webinars on the topic of construction contracts and claims. He is currently the Contracts Director of Hill International’s Africa branch, based in Egypt, and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at The American University in Cairo.

Dr. Yalçın Eyigün is Director-General of Infrastructure Investments for the Ministry of Transport. He has served as the Deputy Director-General at the Ministry of Transport, Maritime Affairs, and Communications, Infrastructure Investments Directorate. Throughout his tenure at AYGM (General Directorate of Infrastructure Investments), he undertook various responsibilities such as Urban Rail System and Mainline Railway Projects Survey and Construction Works Sector Responsible, the In-Charge for the Eurasia Road Crossing Project, and the Supervisor for Marmaray Construction Activities. He has worked at the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Rail Systems Directorate. During this period, Eyigün held positions such as the Control Engineer Responsible for Rail System Project and Construction Works, Assistant Director, and Director. Dr. Eyigün has been a guest lecturer Yalova University, Department of Transportation Engineering and as an Assistant Professor at Istanbul Commerce University, Department of Civil Engineering. He Istanbul Technical University, Department of Civil Engineering in 1995 and holds a Master's and Ph.D.

Emhemmed Ghula is a Libyan Civil Engineer with MSc in Project Management from UK, Owner of Consultancy Expertise Company, Member of DRBF MENA Board, DRBF representative for Libya, Chairman of Libyan Engineering Arbitration Centre, Executive Member of Arab Organization for Engineering Arbitration, Dispute Resolution Board Member, Arbitrator. With a big record of projects in the MENA region.

Kazım Gökhan Elgin graduated from Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Civil Engineering in 1998. After his graduation, he completed his M.Sc in Business Administration. He is currently attending to a Ph. D program at Gebze High Technology Institute, Business Administration Department. Between 1998-2000 he worked as civil engineer for a foreign company and was responsible for the preparation of the retrofitting designs of selected hospitals in İstanbul and İzmİr in Turkey. In 2000 he started working at Prime Ministry Project Implementation Unit as a “Coordinator” for the implementation of the World Bank funded “Marmara Earthquake Emergency Reconstruction Project (MEER). Since 2006, he has been a Founder Director of Istanbul Project Coordination Unit (IPCU) leading the international organizations (World Bank, European Investment Bank, Council Of Europe Development Bank, Islamic Development Bank, KfW Development Bank, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and Eco Trade and Development Bank) funded Istanbul Seismic Risk Mitigation and Emergency Management Project (ISMEP) with a budget of 2.5 Billion Euro that aims to improve the city of Istanbul’s preparedness for a potential earthquake. Kazım Gökhan Elgin is a frequent international speaker. He has been featured by national and international several media organizations, including CNN, the New York Times and he also has a speech at United Nations General Assembly on 12th April 2012.

He is an experienced professional with expertise in contract and claims management. His skillset encompasses contract administration, delay and disruption costs, forensic delay analysis, project planning and project management. Instructs forensic delay analysis modules for Masters Programme at Milan Polytechnic Institute. Oskar is a member of the DRBF since 2018, as well as the other professional organisations such as the SCL and the AACEi. Over the last 5 years he has been extensively involved in adjudication and arbitration proceedings on multibillion Euro disputes.
He graduated with BS and MS Degrees in Civil Engineering and Hydraulics from the Lund Institute of Technology in Sweden. His began his career in engineering and construction in 2006 in Ethiopia.

Erhan Ozturk is a Civil engineer with MSc degree on Construction Project Management and LLM degree on Construction Law & Arbitration. He is a claim/contract management consultant and Dispute Board practitioner. He has nearly 20 years of professional experience in contract and project management for internationally construction projects funded by IFI’s such as World Bank, EBRD, EIB, CEB, and USAID. He has expertise in interpretation of contracts, tender and contract management / negotiations, claim & change management, dispute resolution and Dispute Adjudication Board case management. He has hands-on experience in a wide variety of projects such as railways, tunnels, highways, airports and industrial plants constructed in Asia, Africa and Europe. He is a member of DRBF, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Turkish Engineers and Architects Association, and Society of Construction Law.

Basar Sahin holds a BSc in Civil Engineering and an LLM degree in Construction Law. He is an arbitrator, expert witness, and Dispute Board member. He has held contract, commercial and project management positions with firms for nearly 25 years and gained experience in contract-claim management with a special emphasis in cost control, scheduling and dispute resolution methods. His professional career started in Turkey as a construction field engineer and he then pursued commercial management in the USA for nearly 10 years before returning to Turkey and co-founding lCM Consulting. During this time, he has taken responsibilities from tender to post contract stages in all aspects of commercial management including negotiation of change orders, delay, acceleration, differing site condition and inefficiency claims for lump sum contracts as well as cost reimbursable contracts. His hand-on experience includes involvement in a wide variety of projects such as railroads, highways, tunnels, airports, power plants, marine works, housing and oil-gas business in countries including Georgia, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, Iraq, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Kuwait, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Algeria, Morocco, Libya, Egypt, Jordan, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Albania, Nigeria, Bulgaria, Pakistan, Hungary, Slovakia and the USA. He is enlisted at FIDIC President’s List of Approved Adjudicators, and serves as DRBF Representative for Turkey.

Samuel Whitehouse is a Chartered Quantity Surveyor and expert witness with over 40 years of experience in contracts and dispute management. For the last 20 years Sam has worked on major civil engineering projects throughout the Middle East, Africa, Asia, Central America, and Europe. He is a Managing Director at FTI Construction Solutions and is based in the United Arab Emirates where he serves the local and international market. Previously Sam was the Commercial Director of a major Tier 1 general contractor headquartered in the United Kingdom. Sam has gained extensive experience of Dispute Boards and adjudications throughout the world and serves as the Dispute Resolution Board Foundation Representative for the United Arab Emirates.