Brandon Malone is a solicitor advocate and arbitrator with twenty-five years of commercial dispute resolution experience across a range of sectors. He is qualified as a solicitor in Scotland and in England and Wales. He is the principal of the specialist commercial dispute resolution practice, Brandon Malone & Company with offices in Edinburgh and London. Brandon is a Fellow of both the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. He is accredited by the Law Society of Scotland as a specialist in Construction Law and as a specialist in Arbitration Law, and as an Accredited Solicitor Arbitrator. Brandon was the architect of the Scottish Arbitration Centre and has been the Chairman of its Board since it was established in 2011. He is also a Co-Director of the International Centre for Energy Arbitration, the Centre’s joint research project with the Centre for Petroleum, Mineral Law and Policy (CEPMLP) at the University of Dundee. An experienced arbitrator, Brandon is appointed to the panels of various international arbitration institutions, including the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR), China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC) and Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration (KLRCA). He sits on the Arbitration and ADR Committee of the International Chamber of Commerce. Brandon led the Scottish Arbitration Centre’s successful bid to host the 2020 International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA) Congress in Edinburgh, and Chairs ICCA’s Working Group on Cybersecurity in International Arbitration, a joint project with the New York City Bar and the CPR Institute. Brandon lectures on dispute resolution methods at the University of Strathclyde, is an Honorary Lecturer at the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy at the University of Dundee, and is an external examiner on the law and practice of arbitration at Robert Gordon University.