Our People
Centre Staff
Andrew Mackenzie
Chief Executive and Registrar
Andrew Mackenzie has been Chief Executive of the Scottish Arbitration Centre since its establishment in 2011. A solicitor on secondment to the Centre from the Scottish Government, Andrew previously worked as a policy lead in Justice and as a legal adviser to that Government.
Andrew is Co-Chair of the Global Leadership of the Campaign for Greener Arbitration. A Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Ciarb), he is Honorary Secretary and Treasurer of the Ciarb Scottish Branch.
Andrew is Co-Chair of the International Bar Association (IBA) Government and Public Lawyers Forum. He has previously sat on the Advisory Board and Council of the IBA Section on Public and Professional Interest Council and is a former Co-Chair of the IBA Access to Justice and Legal Aid Committee.
Andrew also sits on the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service Arbitration Court Users Group and is a public interest member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland Investigation Committee.
Juliet Dodds
Business Manager
Juliet joined the Scottish Arbitration Centre as Business Manager in September 2020. She graduated from the University of Aberdeen in 2014 with a MA (hons) in History of Art. Since then she has held various posts in marketing and business development.
Dr Davide D'Aleo
Business Development Manager
Davide is the Centre’s Business Development Manager. He is Italian having obtained a bachelor of laws (with honours) from the University of Arberdeen, Masters of Science in International Business from the University of Leeds, and completed his PhD (international business and international commercial arbitration) at the University of Liverpool. Prior to his PhD studies, he worked in audit at one of the big four accounting firms.
Rebecca Wyke
Deputy Registrar
Rebecca Wyke is a senior associate in the dispute resolution team specialising in commercial dispute resolution.
Rebecca advises corporate and private clients in the UK and internationally on commercial disputes across a range of sectors. She acts on a wide variety of commercial disputes in English seated arbitrations and in the English Courts, including cases involving breach of contract, civil fraud, negligence, shareholder, joint venture and partnership disputes and jurisdictional conflicts.
Rebecca acts as Deputy Registrar of the Scottish Arbitration Centre alongside her role at Howard Kennedy LLP.
Rahaf Saeed
Administrator
Rahaf Joined The Scottish Arbitration Centre as an Administrator in May 2022. She has held various posts in Sales, Tendering and Business Development where she acquired a semi-international exposure during her time in Saudi Arabia. She is currently pursuing her undergraduate degree at The University of Edinburgh specializing in History.
Scottish Arbitration Centre Directors
Gillian Carmichael Lemaire
Chair of the Board
Gillian is a bilingual (English/French) arbitrator and mediator working in the UK and internationally. She started out as a litigator in Glasgow and, after moving to Paris, spent most of her career there in international arbitration and mediation, including partner roles in international law firms. She founded her own practice in Paris in 2014 and returned to the UK soon afterwards. Gillian is a former practising member of the Paris Bar (now an honorary member) and a former solicitor (now a Fellow of the Law Society of Scotland). She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a member of the Advisory Council to ArbitralWomen’s Board.
Angus Glennie (Lord Glennie)
Director
After a career at the commercial bar in London, where he specialised in commercial and international arbitration, and later as an advocate in Edinburgh, Angus was appointed a judge of the Court of Session in 2005 and worked originally as an intellectual property judge. He became Principal Commercial Judge in 2007, a position which he held for some four years. Angus was appointed an arbitration judge in 2010, delivering the first judgments under the Arbitration (Scotland) Act 2010. In 2016 he was appointed to the First Division of the Inner House of the Court of Session and was also appointed to the Privy Council. Angus is now joining Axiom Advocates in Edinburgh and re-joining his old chambers, Twenty Essex, in London, in each case as an arbitrator. He will also remain chair of the Arbitration Court Users Group.
Brandon Malone
Director
Brandon is an Advocate at the Scottish Bar, and a Barrister of the Inner Temple. He is a practising arbitrator, adjudicator and expert determiner, and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He is a member of the panel of arbitrators at AAA/ICDR, New York, SIAC, Singapore, DIAC, Dubai, CIETAC, Beijing, AIAC, Kuala Lumpur, SCCA, Riyadh, RSPP, Moscow, and BCDR-AAA, Bahrain. He is also an eminent Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (FRICS). He chairs the ICCA-NYC Bar-CPR Working Group on Cybersecurity in International Arbitration. Brandon is an Honorary Lecturer at the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy at the University of Dundee and is a former External Examiner in arbitration law at Robert Gordon University. He was a driving force behind the establishment of the Scottish Arbitration Centre. As well as having chaired the Board of the Scottish Arbitration Centre from its inception in 2011 until 2022 (he remains a director of the Centre), he is Co-Director of the International Centre for Energy Arbitration.
Mary Thomson
Director
Mary is a Chartered Arbitrator, accredited mediator (Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC)) and accredited adjudicator (HKIAC) now based in Edinburgh. She is also a barrister at 36 Stone Chambers (London and Singapore) and Pacific Chambers (Hong Kong (HK)) and former solicitor (England & Wales and HK), including as Partner in Dispute Resolution and Regional Head of Insurance at Brandt Chan & Partners/SNR Denton, HK. She is also Chair of ARIAS Asia and Immediate Past Chair of the Executive Committee of CIArb East Asia Branch.
Brandon Nolan
Director
Brandon Nolan is a Partner who is classified by Legal Directories as a leading lawyer both in Scotland and in London. He is described as “a first class construction lawyer” (Scotland) and interviewees praise his “highly intelligent, pragmatic approach” (London and UK wide). Brandon advises on all aspects of construction law including contract drafting, consultancy, advisory, and disputes work in the construction, engineering and oil and gas sectors. He has acted in proceedings in all the main UK Courts. Brandon also has substantial arbitration and adjudication experience and has conducted the advocacy in a number of major arbitrations. He is also extensively involved in alternative dispute resolution techniques such as mediation and expert determination. Risk and strategic advisory work also form a significant part of Brandon’s practice as well as forensic investigation work. Brandon is the immediate past chairman of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Scottish Branch.
Sarah Lancaster
Director
Roy Andrew
Director
Roy Andrew is a Managing Director of Kroll working for the Expert Services practice, based in London. Roy leverages 30 years of experience as a chartered quantity surveyor in the construction and engineering industry.
He specialices in the provision of expert evidence in the fields of quantum and quantity surveying in relation to construction and engineering disputes.
Prior to joining Kroll, Roy served in senior positions with major national UK-based building and civil engineering contractors where he gained extensive contractual and commercial management experience. Since 2008, he has worked with major consultancy firms in dispute resolution, representing employers, contractors and sub-contractors in producing and defending engineering and construction claims. Roy has served as an independent expert over 70 times, with experience in arbitration, litigation, adjudication, dispute adjudication boards and mediation, where he has also testified.
Roy has been appointed to major high-profile disputes both domestically and internationally, involving projects in the UK, Ireland, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago, South Africa, Algeria, Norway, Russia, UAE, Qatar, Mongolia, Slovakia, Greece and Estonia. His recent experience includes sectors such as energy from waste, power, dredging, major infrastructure, oil and gas, roads, marine, ports and harbors, commercial and residential buildings and utilities.
Roy is recognised by Who’s Who legal (WWL) as a Global Elite Thought Leader. He is listed in several prestigious categories of WWL. These include WWL Construction Expert Witnesses (2018-25), WWL Consulting Experts (2018-25) and WWL Arbitration Expert Witnesses (2022-25).
Roy holds a B.Sc. in quantity surveying from Glasgow Caledonian University, an LLM in construction law from the University of Strathclyde and a Post Graduate Diploma in international commercial arbitration and international construction contracts from the Queen Mary University of London. He is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. Additionally, he is a member of the Chartered Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors and the Academy of Experts.
Alice Leggat
Director
Alice Leggat is a solicitor practising in both Scotland and in England and Wales. She is a Legal Manager at SSE plc where she advises on all manner of energy-related construction and engineering disputes, in both jurisdictions. She has acted in many major disputes relating to, amongst others, onshore and offshore wind farms, hydro schemes and transmission projects. She has advised clients in the context of numerous dispute resolution processes, including arbitrations, mediations and adjudications as well as on disputes raised in court. Alice is an associate of the CIArb and in that capacity, assists with ensuring that young people are informed about arbitration in Scotland.
Duncan Bagshaw
Director
Duncan Bagshaw KC is an international arbitration and commercial dispute resolution lawyer based in London. He principally focuses on the oil and gas, energy and natural resources sectors in emerging markets.
Duncan has extensive experience in handling complex international disputes. He leads teams in cross-border and multi-jurisdictional matters, under the rules of major arbitral institutions. Many of Duncan’s cases involve issues of the highest commercial or political sensitivity, involving hundreds of millions or billions of dollars at stake. He has experience handling cases involving multiple forums and overlapping proceedings. He has often dealt with simultaneous proceedings in arbitration and/or in court.
Duncan has particular experience in Africa, having lived in the region and consistently handled cases involving projects in African jurisdictions, including both Anglophone and Francophone countries.