Name: Dr Rob Nicholls

Qualifications: PhD, MA, BSc(Hons)

Title: Mediator and Independent Telecommunications Adjudicator

Organisation: UNSW Sydney

State: NSW

Immediation Practice Area: Mediation, Arbitration, Expert Determination

Profile

I am an accredited mediator and Australia’s Independent Telecommunications Adjudicator. In addition, I am also a member of the NBN arbitration pool. I am a senior lecturer in business law at the UNSW Business School and a member of the Centre for Law, Markets and Regulation at UNSW Law. I am also a visiting professional fellow at UTS Sydney Law. My research interests focus on regulation of networked industries and the financial services sector. I have a special interest in regulatory interactions associated with competition and consumer law and policy with an emphasis on the effects of technology in that space. I have had a thirty-year career concentrating on competition, regulation and governance. My first degree was in electronics and communications engineering from the University of Birmingham and I was awarded my PhD and MA by UNSW Sydney.

Before moving to academia, I worked for Webb Henderson, the ACCC and spent twelve years as a client-facing consultant at Gilbert + Tobin, including as a partner.

I am a practitioner member of the Dispute Resolution Institute, a Senior Member of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers, a member of the International Telecommunications Society and an associate member of the American Bar Association. I am a director of the Regulatory Policy Institute (ANZ) and the director of the UNSW Business School Cybersecurity and Data Governance Research Network.