Doug Jones is an international infrastructure and dispute resolution lawyer. He is Sydney-based and a door tenant at Atkin Chambers, London.. He has practised extensively throughout Australasia and Asia in project, structuring and financing, contract drafting and advice during project implementation and dispute resolution since his first admission to practice in 1972.
Doug has extensive experience in international and domestic arbitrations including under the ICC, LCIA, AAA, KLRCA, SIAC, ACICA Rules. He sits regularly in London in International Arbitrations. He has also been extensively involved in the use of ADR including, expert determination, adjudication and mediation in infrastructure related disputes.
Recent arbitral appointments include:
- Chair, UNCITRAL ad hoc arbitration, Singapore seat, power station construction dispute;
- Sole arbitrator, ad hoc arbitration based on ICC Rules, Sydney seat involving power technology disputes arising from projects in SE Asia and the USA;
- Party appointed arbitrator LCIA arbitration, London seat involving power station construction dispute
- Chairman, LCIA arbitration, London seat, offshore oil and gas production platform construction dispute
He is a Chartered Arbitrator and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (London), Chairman of its Board of Trustees and Past Chairman of the Australian Branch, Co Vice Chair of the IBA Committee on International Construction Projects, and Vice-Chairman of the IPBA Dispute Resolution and Arbitration Committee, Senior Vice-President of the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration, a Foundation Fellow and Graded Arbitrator of The Institute of Arbitrators & Mediators Australia, International Arbitrator Member of the UK Society of Construction Arbitrators, Member of a number of International Arbitration Institutional Panels of Arbitrators, and Australian executive committee member of the Dispute Review Board Foundation. He is Editorial Advisory Board Member of the International Construction Law Review, Editorial Board Member of the International Trade & Business Law Review, Editorial Board Member of Global Arbitration Review and a member of The Melbourne Juris Doctor Advisory Board of the University of Melbourne.
He is Professorial Fellow in the Law School of Melbourne University and Adjunct Professor in the Law School of the University of Notre Dame, Australia.
In January 1999 he was made a Member of the Order of Australia in recognition of his services to construction law and dispute resolution.

