Professor Colin Roberts
EurIng Professor COLIN ROBERTS LLM, DJur(JD), PGDipICArb, GDLP, BEng, PEng, CMinEng, CPetEng, CSci, FCIArb, FAusIMM(CP), FIMMM, FSAIMM, FEI, FAIE, FAIADR, MCIM, SPE
Colin Roberts practices as an International Commercial and Investment Arbitrator, International and Domestic Mediator, Accredited Adjudicator, Expert Determiner, Dispute Board Member, Resources & Investment Legal Academic, and International Natural Resources Geo‐strategist. He has qualifications as a Chartered Petroleum Engineer, Chartered Mining Engineer, Chartered Scientist and Lawyer, with over 50 years of multi-disciplinary resource industry experience, most of which has been in the developing world.
Admitted to the Supreme Court of Western Australia and the High Court of Australia, Colin is also a Professor of Resources Law and International Trade & Investment Law at WASM: Minerals, Energy and Chemical Engineering – Curtin University, and Director of Natural Resource Geo‐Strategy (NRG), Resource Dispute Resolution (RDR), and the Centre for International Dispute Resolution (CIDR).
After military service, Colin started his resources career as a driller and then 28-years as a mining, construction and petroleum engineer. He now specializes in dispute resolution, mitigation of sovereign risk, advising governments in resources law and policy, international trade & investment law and facilitation of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the resources, energy, and infrastructure sectors.
Colin holds, and has held, numerous public and private directorships, including: eight years as the Honorary Investment Consul for Pakistan in Australia, Authorized Emissary for the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) ‐ World Bank Group, Australian Consular Warden – Zambia, Past Chairman of the AusIMM‐WA, Past-Chairman of the Mining Institute of Scotland, Past‐Chairman of the Society of Petroleum Engineers–WA (SPE) and has served or is serving on committees and boards of Energy Resources Law (formerly AMPLA), Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb-Aust), Australian Institute of Energy (AIE) and others.
Colin dedicates 20% of his professional time pro-bono-publico and has volunteered for the Youth Legal Service and is a volunteer for the Citizens Advice Bureau. He is supported by a team of highly skilled and successful professionals whose collective aims are to promote the rule of law and human rights, encourage global prosperity, the reduction of poverty through responsible foreign direct investment in the natural resource sector and the subsequent elimination of civil and global conflict.
Colin’s interests include, but are not limited to the fields public and private international law, including: resources law and policy, mitigation of political and sovereign risk, international commercial and investment arbitration; alternative dispute resolution (ADR); natural resource exploration and exploitation; major project development; foreign direct investment in the developing world; international trade and investment law; transnational business; international competition law; law of the sea; governance, globalization and international treaties. His major geographical regions of interest and expertise are Africa; Europe; Central, Southern and Eastern Asia and the Australia-Pacific.
In his spare time, he serves as Patron of the International Bar Association (IBA), the AusIMM (Australasian Institute of Mining & Metallurgy) Ethics Committee and the AusIMM Perth Branch Committee.
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