Christopher Miers is a leading expert in construction dispute avoidance and resolution who has earned industry-wide recognition for his extensive expertise as an advisor and negotiator on complex multidisciplinary projects worldwide. An Architect with a Master Degree in Construction Law, he has over 35 years’ experience with standard and bespoke forms of international contracts involving substantial building projects, rail and transport systems, energy and power, and sports infrastructure. He has been appointed in over 400 projects of up to €15 billion value and on claims in excess of €200M. He sits on various dispute resolution panels worldwide, including on the Chairman’s panel for Dispute Boards for ‘Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympics & Paralympics'. Regularly instructed as an Arbitrator and Mediator and highly regarded for his accumulated expertise as an Expert Witness, he is past President of the Dispute Resolution Board Foundation’s (DRBF) international Board of Directors; a ‘FIDIC President’s List’ Approved Adjudicator; past Chairman of the Society of Construction Law; a visiting Professor at Peking University, School of Transnational Law and a visiting lecturer in UK universities. In 1998 he founded ‘Probyn Miers’ which has grown to be the UK’s leading ‘think tank’ of Architects in forensic analysis and international dispute avoidance and resolution with offices in London and Dubai. He is the author of several publications, and is regularly called on to collaborate in international forums on his specialist topic of ‘How to Avoid Disagreements Escalating into Disputes’