Peter Fenn

Brief Curriculum Vitae Dr Peter Fenn University of Manchester PO Box 88 Manchester M60 1QD Tel +161 306 4233 Fax +161 200 4646 Email: peter.fenn@manchester.ac.uk Peter Fenn BSc PhD FRICS FCIArb Date of birth: 20/12/1955: Adjudicator, Arbitrator, Expert and Mediator Present Posts Senior Lecturer Partner University of Manchester MJM Chartered Quantity Surveyors Trustee of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Elected member of Dispute Resolution Faculty Board at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors Professional Qualifications Fellow Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors; Registered Mediator Centre for Dispute Resolution; Diploma in Arbitration College of Estate Management; Fellow Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Industrial Experience 1980 1983 Assistant Quantity Surveyor, Chartered Quantity Surveyors London. 1984 Site based Quantity Surveyor, Balfour Beatty Construction Liverpool. 1984 - 1988 Quantity Surveyor, Civil Engineers British Rail London and Swindon. 1988 date Self employed consultant, Bristol Manchester and Dundee. 1993 - date Mediator at the Centre for Dispute Resolution (CEDR) London. 1994 - date Mediator on the President’s Panel at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. 1999 - date Independent Expert on the President’s Panel at the RICS 2000 - date Mediator on the Panel at the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators 2002 - date Mediator on the Panel at the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre 2004 – date Adjudicator on the panel at the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Academic Experience 1988 Visiting lecturer, Bristol Polytechnic. 1988 1990 Lecturer, Dundee Institute of Technology. 1990 - 2001 Lecturer, UMIST. 1992 - date Tutor University of Bath 1994 Tutor Horsens Polytechnic Denmark 1995 Visiting Professor Florida International University 1995 Visiting Professor University of Kentucky 1997 - 1998 Scholar in Residence University of Kentucky 2000 Visiting Lecturer Tsinghua University China 2001 - date Senior Lecturer University of Manchester Dispute Experience Registered Mediator at CEDR from 1993; President’s Panel of Mediators at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors 1994; Panel of Mediators at the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators 2000; President’s Panel of Independent Experts at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors 1999; Mediator Leeds Court Scheme 2000; Mediator Manchester and Liverpool Combined Court Scheme 2000; Mediator Birmingham Court 2002; Mediator Guildford Court 2003. Adjudicator on the President’s Panel at the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators 2004 Some Recent Notable Referrals and Experience 2004/8 Appointed as Mediator by party agreement on more 50 occasions 2004 Appointed as Mediator by the President of RICS 2003 Appointed as Mediator by Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and Guildford Court 2003 Appointed as Conciliator by Chartered Institute of Arbitrators 2002 Appointed as Mediator by Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and Birmingham Court 2001 Appointed by Chartered Institute of Arbitrators as Mediator 2001 Appointed by Manchester Law Society as Mediator 2000 Appointed by Leeds Combined Court as Mediator 2000 Appointed as Independent Expert by the President of RICS Recent Major Industrial Consultancy 1995 The World Bank, The British Council and the National Institute for Highways and Transport India. Delhi India on the use of ADR. 1997 Report for MOD on target cost and incentive contracts. 1998 Report for Hong Kong Construction Association on the Allocation of Risk in Construction Contracts. 2000 Onwards: Course Tutor CIArb Mediation Training; Course Director CIArb Mediation Assessment 2003 Report for Hong Kong (SAR) Government on Dispute Resolution and Avoidance Mechanisms Overseas Experience Mediation in various countries,1998 Report for Hong Kong Construction Association on the Allocation of Risk in Construction Contracts; 2000 Invited Speaker at Honk Kong Whose Risk Conference and follow up to Grove Report. 2000 Invited Speaker at Tsinghua University Publications I have edited and authored 4 books and written more that 30 technical articles, a full list is available on request. My research has been cited in two government reviews: The Latham Review) and The Woolf Report.