Tim Martin has extensive experience as an arbitrator, counsel, expert and strategic advisor in the resolution of energy, oil & gas, project infrastructure and construction disputes. He has been a sole arbitrator, party appointed arbitrator, institution appointed arbitrator and tribunal chair in institutional and ad hoc international and domestic arbitrations.

Tim has more than 40 years of experience as general counsel, country manager, finance director, commercial manager and economist, working in more than 50 countries on some of the largest energy projects in the world. He has wide-ranging experience in various legal systems including the common law, civil law, Shari’ah law and the communist legal system. His business sector experience includes: energy, oil & gas, refining, petrochemicals, mining, infrastructure, construction, international trade & investment, regulatory & administrative, corporate governance, and finance & banking.

Tim has been counsel in international boundary disputes arising from oil & gas concessions that straddled disputed international boundaries and in sovereignty disputes in domestic courts. He has managed litigation strategy for complex, multi-jurisdictional disputes in national courts in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and Asia.

Tim established, organized and chaired the leading annual conference on Dispute Resolution in the International Oil & Gas Business for more than fifteen years, co-sponsored by the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators (AIPN) and leading international arbitration institutions around the world. He is founding Chair of the Journal of World Energy Law & Business, the leading journal on international energy and the official journal of the AIPN, which is published by Oxford University Press. Tim has published and spoken extensively on dispute resolution and energy issues throughout the world.

Tim is a Fellow and Chartered Arbitrator of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, a Fellow of the College of Commercial Arbitrators and a Member of the London Court of International Arbitration. He has been elected to the arbitrator panels of the ICDR, the ICC International Court of Arbitration, the SIAC, the Asian Institute of ADR, the Pacific International Arbitration Centre, the Bahrain Chamber for Dispute Resolution, the Saudi Center for Commercial Arbitration and the Energy Arbitrators List.

More details on Tim and his experience can be found at his website: http://www.timmartin.ca.