To date Gwyn has issued well over 500 awards and decisions relating to adjudication and arbitration and has extensive experience internationally with the FIDIC form of contract, ICC and UNCITRAL Rules.

Gwyn is the past High Sheriff of Gwynedd.

He also lectures, teaches others on behalf of FIDIC on the FIDIC system and presents workshops and seminars throughout the world relating to dispute resolution. He has also presented teaching sessions within the EU in relation to the ISPA funding programme. He has published papers on the DAB system under FIDIC and is co-author of the ICE UK DB Rules. His co-authored book, Dispute Boards Procedures and Practice, is published by Thomas Telford and widely used throughout the world. He has served on the ICC Task Force relating to DB Rules and Procedures.

Gwyn continues to serve on many Dispute Boards throughout the world and is President Listed by FIDIC, having undertaken training and assessment for such listing. He is regularly appointed by the ICC and FIDIC when an institutional or Presidential Nomination is requested. He is a Chartered Arbitrator, Accredited Mediator and an international Adjudicator and has extensive global experience of dispute resolution in many differing jurisdictions and law forms. He also undertakes facilitation and mediation of construction and infrastructure disputes where disputed values have ranged from modest sums to claims in excess of $500M.   

Key specialties include: Dispute Resolution & Avoidance, Dispute Boards, Adjudication, Arbitration, Mediation and Facilitation in disputes relating to: Bridges, Dams, Civil Engineering Works, Roadways, Foundations, Infrastructure, Logistics, Multi-storey Structures, Oil & Gas, Power Stations, Tunnelling and Remote Location Projects including Environmentally Sensitive Contracting.

Gwyn is the designer and world patent holder of the offshore oil and gas platform Docking and Landing Boom System for hovercraft.

Country Experience

Abu Dhabi, Angola, Antigua, Argentina, Australia, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, China, Dubai, El Salvador, Egypt, Ecuatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Georgia, Gibraltar, Honduras, Italy, Kazakhstan, Korea, Kosovo, Latinamerica, Mexico, Morocco, Mozambique, Nigeria, Oman, Panamá, Perú, Philippines, Qatar, Romania, Rwanda, Saudí Arabia, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Spain, Sudan, Trinidad, Venezuela, Zaire

Languages Spoken – English, Welsh, Spanish 

Academic Qualifications 

• MSc Construction Law and Arbitration, King’s College London

• BSc Civil Engineering 

Professional Qualifications

• FCIArb Fellow of the Institute of Arbitrators

• FICE Fellow of the Institute of Civil Engineers

• FConsE Fellow of the Association of Consulting Engineers

• CEng Chartered Engineer

• CIArb Accredited Mediator

• FIDIC President Listed

Panel listings

• Panel Member Arbitrator: Chartered Institute of Arbitrators

• Listed Panel Adjudicator UK Govt. Climate Change Adjudication Service 

• Construction Industry Adjudicator 

• CIArb Panel Listed Adjudicator

• CIArb Accredited Mediator 

• ICE Panel Listed Adjudicator

• RICS Select Arbitration Panel member

• FIDIC International Panel Listed Adjudicator

• Dubai International Arbitration Centre: Listed Arbitrator    

• Beijing Arbitration Commission: Listed Arbitrator 

• International Arbitration Centre Lagos, Nigeria: Listed Arbitrator

• RICS Construction & Engineering Arbitration: Select Panel Member

• DRB Foundation Sustaining Member (US)

Professional Appointments and Memberships

• President of the Dispute Resolution Board Foundation (DRBF) 2007 – 2008 

• Past chairman Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Wales)

• FIDIC President Listed

• RICS Construction & Engineering Arbitration: Select Panel Member 

• ICE Panel Listed Adjudicator

• Society of Construction Arbitrators member

Professional Status

• Arbitrator

• Adjudicator

• Mediator

• Tribunal Panel Member 

• Dispute Adjudication Board Member

• Facilitator in the field of: Legal interpretation and contract conflict issues, Civil and Structural Engineering, Power, Oil, Gas, Infrastructure, Major Building Works.