Dr. Christopher Malcolm
Dr Malcolm is a Consultant Senior Legal Advisor to the Ministry of Justice, Jamaica; Secretary General JAIAC, and a dispute management practitioner, who has been admitted to practice law in Jamaica, British Virgin Islands, Dominica, St. Lucia and Belize. His primary areas of focus are banking and finance, arbitration and alternative dispute resolution (ADR), construction and real estate, corporate and commercial, trade and investment, regional integration and economic development. He is an alumnus of Munro College; The University of the West Indies at Cave Hill; Norman Manley Law School; Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University London; and UNCTAD Virtual Institute, in collaboration with the Universities of Barcelona and Chile. Dr Malcolm has worked collaboratively with lawyers and other professionals from across the globe, including in the area of capacity building.
He is a former Attorney General, British Virgin Islands; Director, Mona Law Institutes Unit; Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law at Mona, University of the West Indies; Partner, Malcolm Gordon, Attorneys-at-Law; Consultant, Fulford Chambers (Turks and Caicos Islands); Council Member, Asian Institute of Alternative Dispute Resolution; former Head, Legal Unit, Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States; Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators; former Chair, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators – Caribbean Branch; Fellow, Asian Institute of Alternative Dispute Resolution; Secretary General, Jamaica International Arbitration Centre Limited; Member, Technical Advisory Group, Improved Access to Justice in the Caribbean (IMPACT) Project; Panellist, Asian International Arbitration Centre; Panellist, Dispute Resolution Centre of Trinidad and Tobago (DRC); Member, Sports Law Association of Malaysia; Member, Inter-Pacific Bar Association (IPBA); and Executive Director, Street Law Caribbean Limited.