Personal bio
Douglas Harrison is an independent commercial arbitrator and mediator, handling both international and domestic Canadian business disputes. He has recently chaired an ICDR Canada arbitration, sat on a Stockholm Chamber of Commerce tribunal, and acted as a sole arbitrator of an Ontario-based ad hoc arbitration. He also acts as legal counsel in select matters, including designing arbitral procedures and enforcing arbitral awards, as well as doing opinion work. Mr. Harrison is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, a member of the CPR Panels of Distinguished Neutrals as both an arbitrator and mediator (Global Panel, Product Liability Panel and Pro Bono Panel), and is on the arbitration rosters of ICDR Canada, ICC Canada, the ADR Institute of Canada, the London Court of International Arbitration and the Ontario Farm Products Marketing Commission, among others. He is the chair of the Toronto Commercial Arbitration Society, a member of the executive of the ICC Canada Arbitration Committee and of the CanArbWeek organizing committee, as well as being a Co-Chair of the University Tribunal of the University of Toronto. For over 30 years, Mr. Harrison was with Stikeman Elliott LLP in Toronto conducting a broad corporate-commercial litigation and arbitration practice that included complex, high-value matters involving, among other things, breach of contract, competition law, insolvency, supplier-procurement disputes and restructuring. His practice also included environmental law, product liability, defamation, professional liability, and directors and officers insurance. He acted for clients from around the world in a wide range of industries including aerospace, chemicals, financial services, food processing, logistics, manufacturing, media, natural resources and pharmaceuticals. Mr. Harrison is the author of numerous publications on, and has spoken widely about, international and domestic arbitration and mediation.