Advisory Panel and Operational Directors

The Advisory Panel assists the Dispute Board Federation in providing guidance and expertise to developing countries. Its members bring together a wealth of practical real world experience dealing with finance and construction as well as the knowledge base needed to assist and advise developing countries in the methods and methodology necessary for the successful completion of infrastructure projects.

Supported Multinational Development Banks

The Dispute Board Federation supports the work of the various Multinational Development Banks such as The World Bank, The European Bank for Reconstruction & Development, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the Asian Development Bank and other such institutions.

The Advisory Panel Members are:

• George Pierson
  Parsons Brinckerhoff
• Dennis Long
  European Bank for Reconstruction & Development
• Cyril Chern
  Crown Office Chambers
• Clive Hassett
  ACE European Group
• Timothy W. Triplett
  Black & Veatch

Emeritus Members

• Charles Redman
   

Operational Directors

There are three key operational Directors in the DBF:

• Director of the Regional Councils
• Director of Development
• Director of Programmes

Regional Councils – Mark Tiggeman

The director of the Regional Councils who also acts as its Global Chair is Mark Tiggeman. Mark is a senior partner of Kennedys, which is an international Solicitor firm based in London and he has been very active with the DBF over the years. He is a leader in the field of Dispute Boards and their use on major infrastructure projects. Additionally as a Solicitor he brings over 22 years of experience in dispute resolution of major international matters to this role within the DBF

Director of Development – Ben Beaumont

Ben Beaumont the Director of Development. Ben is both a Barrister and Chartered Surveyor. The Dispute Resolution Federation has noted that it needs to have a focal person or role as a point of contact for not only the expansion of the DBF's activities in the promotion of Dispute Boards but also with a view to developing and designing training and certification for the various areas of dispute resolution undertaken by the DBF. These areas include education and training for those administering construction and other contracts together with training and testing of potential adjudicators and dispute board members. Ben has also been mandated to co-ordinate discussions, under the leadership of the management, with the various appointing bodies and law firms, which are seeking to reduce the costs of litigation and delay by the use of dispute boards.

Director of Programmes –  Dr. Götz-Sebastian Hök

The Director of Programmes who is also Chair of our Programmes Committee is Dr. Götz-Sebastian Hök. He has been mandated with the role of restructuring not only the Committee but also the various programmes put on by the DBF. Dr. Götz-Sebastian Hök, Berlin is a lawyer, arbitrator, adjudicator, lecturer at the University of Applied Science in Berlin and a senior and partner at the law office, Dr. Hök, Stieglmeier & Kollegen, in Berlin. His area of practise includes international construction contract law, international public procurement and trans-border real estate law. He is the author of a considerable number of papers and articles on topics in the field of contract administration and has also published several books in the fields of international contract law and international dispute resolution. His work, the Handbuch des internationalen und ausländischen Baurechts is widely considered the leading book in international construction in German. He has also translated the FIDIC Red, Yellow and Silver Books into German and French.