Masters of the Bench

After an education at Magdalen College School, Oxford, Stowe School, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (MA (Hons) in Law) and the Council of Legal Education in London; Andrew was admitted to Middle Temple in 1981 and Called to the Bench in 2009.  In 1987 Andrew became an employed barrister notably with Mobil (now ExxonMobil) from 1987 to his retirement in 2020.  His 33 years with the company included 16 years working overseas in Indonesia, Turkey, America, Singapore and Qatar. His last appointments were General Counsel of ExxonMobil International Limited in the UK and Senior Counsel to ExxonMobil’s worldwide LNG business.

Current appointments: Governing Board of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration; Advisory Council to the Centre of Commercial Law Studies at Queen Mary University of London and Chair of the Steering Committee for the Energy Law Institute; Past Chair of the Corporate Counsels' International Arbitration Group (CCIAG); Member of the London Court of International Arbitration; Advisory Board of the Turkish Commercial Law Review. Clubs: The International Arbitration Club, The Honourable Society of Knights of the Round Table, Beaverbrook Golf Club.  Languages: Turkish, French and Indonesian.