The Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR), the not-for-profit international dispute resolution body and conflict management consultancy, has announced that the new Chair of its Board of Trustees is the Rt Hon Sir Julian Smith KCB CBE MP.
Sir Julian is a former UK Cabinet Minister and business entrepreneur who entered the UK Parliament in 2010 as Member of Parliament for Skipton and Ripon. He will be CEDR’s seventh chair in its 35 year history, and the third chair to have achieved CEDR’s internationally recognised Accreditation as a civil and commercial Mediator (in 2021).
Sir Julian Smith KCB CBE MP said, “I am delighted and honoured to have been appointed to chair the Board of CEDR, an organisation admired by many for its work in the UK and overseas. As CEDR enters its 35th year, I very much look forward to working with the trustees and executive team. There is a real opportunity to maximise the use of mediation in the justice system and to...