Officers, Board & Committees

Chair
Sir Alan Ward

Immediate Past Chair
Sir Henry Brooke

Vice Chair
Bill Wood QC (also elected to represent individual mediators)

Treasurer
Richard Schiffer (who also represents the ADR Group)

Hon. Secretary

Clive Lewis OBE DL (who also represents the Globis Mediation Group)

The Board of the CMC
The Board of the CMC, in addition to the Chair, the Vice Chair, the Secretary and Treasurer, are the following:

Board Members
Heather Allen, Katie Bradford, Amanda Bucklow, Paul Randolph and David Richbell (elected to represent individual mediators); Dominic Stanton (representing the Academy of Experts), Mark Mattison (representing the Association of Northern Mediators), Andy Rogers (representing CEDR), Representative of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Nicola Cullen (representing the Department for Business Innovation and Skills), David Parkin (representing the Ministry of Justice), Colin Manning (representing the Bar Council) and Peter Causton (representing the Law Society).

Andrew Wareing (ACAS) also attends Board Meetings as an observer and to contribute from the ACAS perspective, but has no vote.

Chief Executive: Jon Siddall

Registrar: Tracey Stewart

Mail address

The Civil Mediation Council

The International Dispute Resolution Centre

70 Fleet Street

London

EC4Y 1EU

United Kingdom

Telephone 0207 353 3227

Email registrar@civilmediation.org

Committees of the CMC Board

(a) Academic Committee

Board Members: Paul Randolph

Non-Board Members: Loukas Mistelis (Chair), Robin Ap Cynan, Penny Brooker, Frances Burton, Bryan Clark, Fiona Cownie, Debbie De Girolamo, Aaron Hudson-Tyreman, Sue Prince, Simon Roberts, Rahim Shamji, Shirley Shipman, Ben Waters, Lisa Webley

(b) Accreditation and Training Review

Board Members: Anthony Glaister (Chair), Paul Randolph, David Richbell, Andy Rogers, Dominic Stanton, Bill Wood

Non-Board Members: Suzanne Lowe, Tom Thomas OBE

(c) Communications

Board Members: Heather Allen, Paul Randolph (Co-chairs), Amanda Bucklow, Dominic Stanton

Non-Board Members: Beverley Barton, Ronald Bradbeer, David Douglas, Spenser Hilliard, Roger Levitt, Peter McLoughlin, Kisane Prutton, Andrew Sims, Tom Thomas OBE

(d) Government Relations

Board: Sir Alan Ward (Chair), Paul Randolph, Dominic Stanton

Non-Board Members: Ronald Bradbeer, Jeremy Tagg, Tom Thomas OBE, Diana Wallis

(e) Outreach, Conferences and Forums 

Board Members: David Richbell (Chair)

(f) Workplace

Board Members: Andrew Wareing (Chair), Clive Lewis OBE DL, Paul Randolph, Nicola Cullen

Non-Board Members: Neil Campbell, Fiona Colquhoun, John Crawley, John Drowley, Hannah King / Anna Shields, Nicole Eisele,  Katherine Graham, Linda Hoskinson, Kisane Prutton, Rahim Shamji, Sarah Veale, Marilyn Webster, Louisa Weinstein