Biography
Peter Cameron is one of the world’s leading authorities in the specialist field of energy and minerals law. He sits as arbitrator in complex, high-value, cross border disputes at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and the International Court of the International Chambers of Commerce (ICC). He also takes instructions as an expert witness and has provided oral and/or written testimony in more than three dozen cases including disputes before the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), the ICC, the Singapore International Arbitration Court (SIAC), the Stockholm Court of International Arbitration (SCC), the Commercial Court and the Milan Central Criminal Court.
Peter is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, is on the List of Practitioners in International Arbitration at the Vienna International Arbitration Centre (VIAC) and has an Arbitrator Profile at Kluwer Arbitration. He is a member of ICCA, the LCIA and the International Bar Association. He is also Co-Director of the Centre for International Energy Arbitration. Prior to serving as an arbitrator, Peter acquired extensive knowledge of international commerce through his lengthy experience as consultant to The World Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and The Asian Development Bank. His leading publication on governance in the oil, gas and mining industries has been downloaded from The World Bank website almost 84,000 times since 2017.
In his academic roles, Peter is Director of the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy at the University of Dundee, and Professor of International Energy Law. He is also Professorial Fellow at the Europa Institute of the University of Edinburgh. He is editor-in-chief of the journal, ‘Global Energy Law and Sustainability’. Formerly, he was a professor at the European University Institute at Florence, Italy. Peter is the author of many publications, including ‘International Energy Investment Law: The Pursuit of Stability’ (Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, 2021) and ‘Stabilization Clauses: Do They Have a Future?’ in the Bahrain Chamber for Dispute Resolution’s International Arbitration Review (2020). His current research is on international arbitration and the energy sector for a forthcoming monograph.