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Jonathan Cartledge brings over twenty years of experience including as an executive leader building organisational capability, championing culture and delivering effective partnerships for positive change. He draws on diverse experience across the not-for-profit and public sectors in Australia and the UK, encompassing strategy, public affairs, government relations, and program leadership. Jonathan has a deep understanding of how to drive change, influence and support collaboration for organisational success.

Graeme Christie is a Construction Lawyer with over 30 years’ experience in construction law. He has been involved in many major construction projects both on and offshore and is well known in the construction industry. He is regularly listed amongst the leading practitioners in this field in New Zealand. Graeme is a sought after specialist in the New Zealand construction industry. He has spoken at many conferences due to his expertise in contract law both in New Zealand and abroad and for many years was a lecturer in construction law at the School of Architecture, University of Auckland. He also assists clients to resolve construction disputes by means of negotiated settlements, mediation, arbitration, adjudication, and litigation. He has acted as arbitrator on an ICC international construction dispute sitting in London and as arbitrator in New Zealand. He has also been appointed adjudicator in a number of New Zealand adjudications. He serves as a member of the DRBF Region 3 Board of Directors.

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Jon Davies is Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Constructors Association. Jon has been passionate about construction since he was given his first Lego set. After 30 years working in contract and commercial roles with contractors on three continents, Jon is keen to use his experience to drive positive change in the industry he loves. Jon serves as a member of the DRBF Region 3 Board of Directors.

Graham Easton is both a civil engineer and a lawyer. He is based in Sydney, Australia and works as an independent Arbitrator, Mediator and Dispute Board Member. Formal qualifications include: B.Sc. (Computer Science), University of Sydney, 1967; B.E. (Hons.) (Civil Engineering), University of Sydney, 1969; M.Eng. Sc., University of Birmingham, U.K., 1972; LL.B., University of New South Wales, 1988. He is a Barrister of the Supreme Court of New South Wales; a Grade 1 Arbitrator and Accredited Mediator, Resolution Institute, Australia; a Member of the London Court of International Arbitration; an Accredited Arbitrator, Singapore International Arbitration Centre. Mr. Easton has lectured extensively on the contractual and legal aspects of engineering and related technical areas, both in Australia and overseas, including a seven-year period teaching Construction Management at the University of New South Wales. He was the joint author of a standard textbook “Civil Engineering Construction” published by McGraw Hill in Australia. For more than 30 years, Mr. Easton has acted as an arbitrator / court referee / mediator in over 250 disputes throughout Australia and overseas. He has been a member of many Dispute Boards on major projects and has been appointed to several international arbitration tribunals in Europe, Asia and the Pacific. Mr. Easton is a Past-President of the DRBF Executive Board of Directors and is a recipient of the Al Mathews Award for Dispute Board Excellence, the DRBF's top honor. He is the Lead Editor for the DRBF Manual – Guide to Practices and Procedures, published in 2019.

Pamela Jack is an experienced dispute board member having been involved in the Dispute Resolution Board Foundation since its formation in Australia. She currently sits on a number of dispute boards and on an Independent Dispute Avoidance and Resolution Panel overseeing a multi-contract infrastructure project. Pamela recognises the benefits of collaborative project establishment, regular engagement between the parties on any issues, implementation of avoidance techniques and timely dispute resolution. Pamela is an advocate for the use of dispute boards and for the party's involvement in consensual resolution, rather than imposed outcomes. She is also involved in training of potential dispute board members, through advanced training workshops and conferences in Indonesia, the Philippines and Australia. Pamela is also an experienced non-executive director.

Chris is currently the Chair of two Dispute Avoidance Boards on Sydney infrastructure projects and is engaged by government agencies and private sector companies in advisory, dispute resolution and knowledge transfer activities. Until recently, he was an independent non-executive Director of constructor McConnell Dowell Corporation Limited and a member of the Audit, Risk (including IT) and Remuneration Committees of the Board. Previously, Chris was Chief Executive of State Owned Corporation the Transport Infrastructure Development Corporation (TIDC), which later became a division of Transport for New South Wales and Chris was appointed Deputy Director General. During this period, dispute boards were introduced into TIDC projects. Prior to his time in government, Chris was Principal and Director in advisory consultancy Evans and Peck and before that held senior executive positions in construction contracting organisations.

Australia’s recent history, from Sydney Light Rail to North West Metro. Through his years working in the NSW Government, Larry helped transform NSW’s infrastructure pipeline and he has an acute awareness of what it takes to get things done. His passion for improving Sydney has always been front and centre, and he has been a Director of the Committee for Sydney for six years. One of Larry’s passions is improving the culture of the infrastructure sector and he is a strong advocate for increasing diversity and inclusion in the industry.

Ian McIntyre is a Civil Engineer with more than 40 years of experience in major civil engineering and multi- disciplinary resources, transportation, power and industrial infrastructure projects throughout Australia, Asia and Dubai as a construction contractor executive and as a consultant. Ian is well known in regard to the design of project and program strategies and also in regard to methodology for analysis of project delivery problems and failures. He has frequently been retained in ‘trouble shooting’, independent review, due diligence and expert determination roles and has considerable experience in analysis of the reasons for and effects of project delivery problems. His professional practice has, in recent years, been divided between expert witness, dispute board, and expert determination roles and also advisory roles at the formative and delivery stages of projects. He was also retained in 2019 as an adviser to a Judge of the NSW Supreme Court in regard to delay analysis aspects of a case in the court. Consulting assignments have covered a wide range of infrastructure and systems integration projects, including hydro power projects, dams, tunnels, roads, bridges, airports, ports, railway rolling stock, power stations, wind farms, transmission lines, mineral processing plants, water processing plants, water distribution systems, LNG processing plants, automated crane control systems, automated toll collection systems, bulk handling facilities, industrial facility developments, CBD office buildings, public entertainment and convention facilities, hospitals, schools, hotels and ICT system integration projects. These consulting activities were undertaken throughout Australia, Dubai and Asia, especially Indonesia, Malaysia, Hong Kong, China, Vietnam and Singapore.
Expert reports have related to project scheduling issues, project management decisions, project management processes, the effect of various events or factors on project performance, causation, delay, disruption, construction methods, productivity, loss of production, quality of work, contract administration, the cost and valuation of variations, the reasonable cost of work carried out, delay costs, project overheads, corporate overheads, loss of profit, and quantum of damages.
Ian is President of the Region 3 Board of Directors (Australia and New Zealand) of the Dispute Resolution Board Foundation. He is also Chairman of the Industry Advisory Committee to the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and a member of the Dean’s Advisory Committee, Faculty of Engineering, UNSW. Ian is graded as an Arbitrator, trained as a mediator and trained in regard to Dispute Boards. He is an experienced expert witness and facilitator. He is included in the Resolution Institute Register of accredited Expert Determiners.