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Paul Coughlan Head of Infrastructure Development, Brisbane Airport Corporation Paul Coughlan is the Head of Infrastructure Development at Brisbane Airport Corporation. He holds a degree in Civil Engineering and was the Project Director of the recently completed new parallel runway at the Brisbane Airport.  Paul led the project through the planning, approval and delivery phases.

Graham Easton is both a civil engineer and a lawyer. He is based in Sydney, Australia and works as an independent Arbitrator, Mediator and Dispute Board Member. Formal qualifications include: B.Sc. (Computer Science), University of Sydney, 1967; B.E. (Hons.) (Civil Engineering), University of Sydney, 1969; M.Eng. Sc., University of Birmingham, U.K., 1972; LL.B., University of New South Wales, 1988.He is a Barrister of the Supreme Court of New South Wales; a Grade 1 Arbitrator and Accredited Mediator, Resolution Institute, Australia; a Member of the London Court of International Arbitration; an Accredited Arbitrator, Singapore International Arbitration Centre.

Mr. Easton has lectured extensively on the contractual and legal aspects of engineering and related technical areas, both in Australia and overseas, including a seven-year period teaching Construction Management at the University of New South Wales. He was the joint author of a standard textbook “Civil Engineering Construction” published by McGraw Hill in Australia. For more than 30 years, Mr. Easton has acted as an arbitrator / court referee / mediator in over 250 disputes throughout Australia and overseas. He has been a member of many Dispute Boards on major projects and has been appointed to several international arbitration tribunals in Europe, Asia and the Pacific. Mr. Easton is a Past-President of the DRBF Executive Board of Directors and is a recipient of the Al Mathews Award for Dispute Board Excellence, the DRBF's top honor. He is the Lead Editor for the DRBF Manual – Guide to Practices and Procedures, published in 2019.

Ronald A (Ron) Finlay AM is a principal and the chief executive of Finlay Consulting and a sole legal practitioner trading as R.A. Finlay, Lawyer since 1997 and is regarded as one of Australia’s leading infrastructure and governance specialists. Ron is the independent Chair of the WestConnex Group, a member of the Naval Shipbuilding Expert Advisory Panel, the Foundation Executive Board Member and Secretary of DRBF Region 3 and has been Chair, a Member or a One-Person on over 20 Dispute Avoidance Boards, including current Chair of DAAB for Snowy 2.0. He was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 2015 for “significant service to the law, particularly in the area of dispute resolution, through public infrastructure advisory roles, and to the sport of Baseball”. Ron is a Past-President of the DRBF Executive Board of Directors.

Jessica Gallienne is the owner and founder of Organisation Dynamics, and brings over two decades of people, culture and collaboration experience across some of Australia’s largest and most successful organisations and projects. She is renowned for her incredibly powerful, dynamic and insightful facilitation and coaching skills – enabling people in organisations to apply novel approaches to navigate high performing teams through complex challenges. Jessica brings specialities in areas of high performance teaming, culture transformation, leadership development and alignment, strategy and governance, collective impact, organisation design and effectiveness, inter-organisational collaboration and community-based innovation. Her psychology and commerce backgrounds inform an approach which is both people-centric and offers pragmatic fit-for-purpose solutions. Her broad experience enables her to apply first principles in her approach, leading her to quickly identify the outcome and articulate a clear path to it.  Her commercial perceptiveness enables Jessica to provide a sound foundation to build cultural mechanisms for high performance. 

Pamela Jack is a dispute resolution practitioner, lawyer and consultant. She is a current dispute board member and an active member of the Dispute Resolution Board Foundation. Pamela has extensive legal experience in the fields of infrastructure, construction and property, having practised as a construction lawyer for more than 35 years, including leading the construction and infrastructure practice at MinterEllison. Pamela has extensive experience in disputes and in the many methods of dispute resolution, including arbitration, litigation, expert determination and mediation, as well as dispute avoidance and resolution boards. She has had substantial Involvement in many major infrastructure projects including Sydney Metro; the redevelopment of Tug Harbour at Port Hedland, Western Australia; Wiggins Island Coal Export Terminal; East West link in Victoria; Airport Link in Brisbane; and Epping to Chatswood rail link in NSW. Pamela is a committed advocate for the benefits of dispute avoidance boards and has acted as a trainer for DRBF workshops. She currently sits on a dispute board for a major road and tunnelling contract with a value in excess of AUD$2billion. In addition to her current consulting work and dispute board roles she sits on the board of Youth off the Streets, an Australian charity and on the board of the Two Good Foundation, a social enterprise.

Currently an independent non-executive Director of McConnell Dowell Corporation Limited (where he is also a member of Audit, Risk and Remuneration Committees of the Board), Chris is also Chair of the Dispute Board on a major Sydney infrastructure project and has been a member of two other Dispute Boards, one as Chair.

Kiri Parr is an academic, speaker and independent consultant in the construction industry in Australia. Kiri is passionate about improving outcomes in the construction industry with her work sitting at the intersection of construction law, procurement strategy, human behaviour and governance models. As well as operating her own consultancy practice, where she is sought after for her skills as a team builder, facilitator and advisor, Kiri is a Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne law school lecturing in the Construction Law Master’s program in two courses “Construction Project Delivery” and “Major Projects – the Legal Interfaces”. In industry Kiri is a member of the FIDIC Contracts Committee and is actively involved locally with Consult Australia and the Society of Construction Law Australia. Prior to establishing her own company in 2020, Kiri spent more than 20 years’ as a construction lawyer, initially in private practice and followed by 15 years as Regional General Counsel for Arup, a large international professional consulting company. During this time, Kiri was involved in numerous large projects in the region including Airport Link, Gold Coast Light Rail and Marina Bay Sands. From 2015 to 2019 Kiri was included in Doyle’s Leading In-House Construction Lawyers in Australia.

Derek Skinner Director of consultancy, Geodek Pty Ltd Derek Skinner is a Civil Engineer with over 40 years’ experience in the construction of roads and bridges, performing roles of site engineer, contract administrator and principal’s representative. For the past 10 years he has engaged in dispute avoidance and resolution as a member of 15 Dispute Boards for a range of transport infrastructure projects in Queensland and New South Wales. Derek has a keen interest in the successful delivery of projects through a focus on the health of the project and the relationships between the parties to identify and resolve issues before they become disputes.

Jim Sloman OAM is a civil engineer by training and very experienced in project and business delivery and governance. After 23 years with Lend Lease, Jim, in early 1997 became Deputy CEO and Chief Operating Officer for the Sydney Organising Committee for the 2000 Olympic Games. He was responsible for the planning and delivery of the Sydney 2000 Olympic (and Paralympic) Games and events with a workforce of 150,000 people that included 50,000 volunteers and many contractors, including a number of sponsors and rights holders. Since then, Jim has acted as a consultant to numerous other major events including the London 2012 Olympics and the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup. He was also an Independent Director of the Goodman Group from 2006 to 2018, Executive Chairman of Laing O'Rourke Australia from 2010 to 2021 (and remains a Strategic Advisor) and has been an Independent Director of SHAPE Australia since 2005.

Scott Stewart as Divisional Manager, Brisbane Infrastructure, Scott is responsible for the delivery of Council’s infrastructure portfolio of approximately $2 billion per annum, including asset management, infrastructure planning, design, project management, construction services, maintenance, waste and resource recovery, and transport planning and operations. By managing public funding and public-private partnerships, and establishing progressive delivery models, Scott is instrumental in the progressive and financially responsible delivery of Council’s major assets. Scott has more than 30 years of infrastructure and executive leadership experience across local and international roles in the private and public sectors, including major road, rail and urban infrastructure projects in Hong Kong, the United Kingdom, Singapore and Australia. Since joining Council, Scott has played an integral part in the development and delivery of major city-shaping projects including Brisbane Metro, Green Bridges program, and the TransApex program, including Go Between Bridge and Legacy Way toll roads. Scott holds a Bachelor of Engineering (First Class Honours), Master of Engineering Science (Project Management) and completed the INSEAD Advanced Management Program in France. He is also a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia and a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.