Tomas Kennedy-Grant, Q.C., a graduate of Oxford, is an experienced arbitrator and mediator. Qualified to practise in England and New Zealand, he has been in practice for 43 years, 10 of them (1992-2002) as a Master of the High Court of New Zealand. Since February 2002 he has practised full-time as an arbitrator, mediator and adjudicator.

He has been appointed under the ICC, SIAC and UNCITRAL Rules as chairman or presiding arbitrator, party-appointed arbitrator and sole arbitrator. He is appointed regularly as sole arbitrator in New Zealand disputes.

His principal areas are construction law, commercial law and dispute resolution. In the first he is the author of Kennedy-Grant : Construction Law in New Zealand (Butterworths 1999, reprinted Lexis-Nexis 2003) and co-author of Bayley and Kennedy-Grant: A guide to the Construction Contracts Act (Rawlinsons Media 2003) and has lectured at the University of Auckland and also been an occasional lecturer at the King's College London-National University of Singapore MSc in Construction Law. In the second he has lectured at the University of Auckland and, as a Master of the High Court of New Zealand, has had to deal with a wide range of commercial law issues. In the third, he is a member of 16 international arbitration panels and has lectured, tutored and written extensively, with papers published in Arbitration, Asian International Arbitration Journal, Construction Law Journal, the ICCA Yearbook, International Construction Law Review, New Zealand Business Law Quarterly, and New Zealand Law Journal.