Dr. CAMERON OAM FORD SC

Barrister | Arbitrator | Mediator

Dr Cameron Ford OAM SC is an independent arbitrator, counsel and mediator practising from Singapore and Australia. He was awarded an Order of Australia Medal for services to law and was President of the Northern Territory Bar Association from 2025 to 2026.

Cameron has been a partner in the international dispute resolution group of Squire Patton Boggs in Singapore. He also spent about a decade as in-house counsel with National Australia Bank, Downer Group and Rio Tinto, managing large commercial and investor-state disputes. He is a barrister and was earlier a dispute resolution partner in a firm.

That in-house experience gave him a deeper appreciation of the commercial pressures on businesses and their desire for efficient disposition of disputes.

Cameron is on the arbitration panels of SIAC, HKIAC, KCAB, CIETAC and BAC and has acted as counsel and arbitrator under rules including SIAC, ICC, ICSID and UNCITRAL. He is also a registered adjudicator under an Australian construction security of payment scheme, has written over a dozen determinations and has advised on numerous adjudication applications and responses.

He has been Editor-in-Chief of the Northern Territory Law Reports since 2004 and Executive Editor of the Northern Territory Law Journal since its inception in 2009. His writing covers arbitration, security for costs, security of payment, jurisdiction, constitutional law and civil procedure. (See Publications.)