Danny McFadden

Director, Asia Initiative

E-mail: dmcfadden@cedr.com

Direct dial: +44 (0) 20 7536 6022

Danny McFadden is a CEDR Director having joined CEDR in 2004. He is dually qualified as a lawyer both in Australia and the UK and has been involved in negotiation, mediation and international business for over 20 years.  After completing his Masters in Commercial Law, specialising in dispute resolution and international trade, Danny returned to the UK to further his career in international dispute resolution. Now based in London, and as a CEDR Accredited Mediator, Danny mediates regularly in the commercial and property sectors with a particular expertise in cross-cultural and multinational disputes.

Danny is a fluent speaker of both Mandarin Chinese and Indonesian. Before entering the legal profession he worked throughout Asia and has managed a number of businesses providing commercial services to international clients. The experience of successfully starting and running his own businesses means Danny fully appreciates the realities and underpinnings of the business environment. He has worked with people of all nationalities and has a clear understanding of the dynamics of mediating and arbitrating across national boundaries.

He has worked to develop CEDR's capacity to offer cross-cultural mediation and his efforts have resulted in CEDR establishing an international mediation service in Beijing with the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) Mediation Centre, which is the largest in Asia, and providing consultancy to the legislatures of Hong Kong and Vietnam.

In recent years Danny has delivered training courses on ADR in Azerbaijan, Cameroon, China, Guyana, Vietnam, the UK and Kazakhstan and is a member of CEDR’s training faculty. He is in demand as a speaker and has presented papers at conferences in China, Hong Kong, Ireland, USA, UK, Poland, Sweden, Taiwan, Australia and Spain.

In 2008, taking temporary leave of absence from CEDR, Danny joined the United Nations Ombudsman’s Office in New York as an expert adviser on the establishment of a new Mediation Division. His report on the design of an integrated conflict resolution system formed part of the terms of reference for mediation in the new UN Justice System. In 2009 he spent a further 3 months as the Interim UN Director of Mediation in New York, mediating cases and also assisting in the selection of staff for the new Mediation Division.

Danny is a member of the Law Society of England and Wales, Civil Mediation Council, International Bar Association, World Jurist Association, Asian Lawyers Association, 48 Group, British Expertise and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

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