Hon. Barry Leon, FCIArb is an independent arbitrator and mediator with Arbitration Place, 33 Bedford Row Chambers, and Caribbean Arbitrators, and mediator with Wyeth Thomas Mediation. For a three-year term (2015–2018), Barry was Presiding Judge of the BVI Commercial Court. Barry is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb), an International Mediation Institute Certified Mediator, and a Fellow of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers. Barry is an Arbitrator on the American Arbitration Association National Roster of Arbitrators, and a member of the Cayman International Mediation and Arbitration Centre (CI-MAC) Rosters of Arbitrators and Mediators, the Jamaica International Arbitration Centre (JAIAC) Panel of Neutrals (Arbitration, Mediation, Facilitated Contract Re-Negotiation, Neutral Evaluation), and the Vancouver International Arbitration Centre (VanIAC) Domestic Arbitration, International Arbitration, and Mediation Panels. He is Co-Chair of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration’s Caribbean Task Force, a past Chair and active member of ICC Canada’s Arbitration Committee, and a member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR. He is Vice Chair and Branch Committee Member of the Caribbean Branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, a member of the BVI Arbitration Group and its governing Committee, a member of the Board of Governors of the Canadian Guyanese Congress, Co-Chair of the Canadian Arbitration Report, a member of the Organizing Committee for Canadian Arbitration Week, a member of the International Trust Arbitration Organisation’s Research Council, and a member of the North America Committee of the Campaign for Greener Arbitrations. He is an Executive Editor of the Canadian Journal of Commercial Arbitration, and a Co-Moderator of OGEMID. Also, Barry is a Director of the International Law Association’s Canadian Branch and a member of the Canadian Bar Association’s International Law Section, International Arbitration Club of New York, Toronto Commercial Arbitration Society, London Court of International Arbitration, American Society of International Law, and New York International Arbitration Center. Before 2015, Barry was Partner and Head, International Arbitration Group at Perley-Robertson, Hill & McDougall. Until 2009, he was a Partner with Torys LLP in its Litigation and Dispute Resolution Practice, and for many years, Practice Coordinator. Barry is a recipient of the 2023 Award for Distinguished Service in Canadian Arbitration from Chartered Institute of Arbitrators’ Canadian Branch, and CPR International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution’s “Award for Outstanding Contribution to Diversity in ADR”. He has been short-listed for Global Arbitration Review “best prepared arbitrator”.