Duncan H. Cameron
Washington, DC, USA

Principal, Global InterMediation PLLC
Senior Counsel, Cameron & Hornbostel LLP

Conducts mediations in English.
Speaks Spanish.

Subject Specialties:
Domestic and international commercial disputes.

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PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

A Founder and Managing Partner, Cameron & Hornbostel LLP, 1972-2001; Partner, 2002-2006; Senior Counsel, 2006-Present.

Partner, Appleton, Rice & Perrin, 1968-1971.

Deputy Assistant General Counsel and Member of the Office of the General Counsel, Agency for International Development, 1963-1967.

Resident Legal Advisor, Dominican Republic, 1966.

Associate, Paul Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, New York City, 1959-1962.

Mr. Cameron has specialized in representing foreign clients doing business in the United States in corporate and banking matters, including dispute settlements and reinsurance claims, and in representing United States clients investing abroad.  He served as a consultant to the Foreign Investment Advisory Service of the World Bank in the Dominican Republic, Honduras and Panama between 1997-2000.


MEDIATION AND ARBITRATION

Mr. Cameron is a founder and principal of Global InterMediation PLLC.  He is a court appointed mediator of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, where he has mediated more than 40 civil cases, and he has served as counsel in other mediations.

Mr. Cameron is currently serving as an arbitrator on a three member panel in an arbitration case at the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes and has served as sole arbitrator of an international commercial dispute under an appointment by the U.S. District Court, District of Columbia.  He was counsel to a foreign government in a construction dispute conducted under the Rules of the International Chamber of Commerce. 

Mr. Cameron is a member of the Advisory Board, The Institute of Transnational Arbitration, Dallas, Texas.  He participated in the 16th and 17th annual workshops of the Institute of Transnational Arbitration in June 2005 and June 2006 in Dallas, Texas, and in the 4th annual conference of the Institute of Transnational Arbitration and the American Society of International Law in March 2007 in Washington, D.C.

Mr. Cameron also participated in the International Mediation Workshop in New York City in September 2006, sponsored by the JAMS Institute and in the Multi-Door training program for mediators conducted by the Superior Court of the District of Columbia in April 2005.  He has attended the Joint Colloquiums on international arbitration sponsored by the International Center for Dispute Resolution, International Chamber of Commerce and International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes, held in Washington, D.C. in November  2005 and in November 2006.


TEACHING POSITIONS

Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC.  Adjunct Professor of Law, 1970-80; 1989-2002.

Georgetown University School of Foreign Service.  Adjunct Professor of International Law, 1973-89.

INCAE, Alajuela, Costa Rica and Managua, Nicaragua.  Adjunct Professor, 2001-2006.

Victoria University, New Zealand.  Visiting Professor of Law, 1986.

University of the Americas, Mexico.  Instructor, Summer 1957.


OTHER ACTIVITIES

Board of Trustees, Escuela Agricola Panamericana (Zamorano), Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
Member, 1986-2002; Chairman of the Board, 1991-1997; Trustee Emeritus, 2002-Present.

Chilean-American Chamber of Commerce, Washington, DC.  Founder and Member, 1991-Present; President, 1992-1996.

Washington Foreign Law Society, Board of Governors, 1988-1990.

Historical Society of Washington, DC, Member, Board of Directors, 1998-2007.

Washington Tennis Foundation, Member, 1995-1999.


EDUCATION

Columbia University, Graduate Faculties, Department of Public Law & Government, Ph.D., 1965.
Columbia University, School of Law, LL.B., 1959.
Harvard College, B.A. cum laude, 1956.


MEMBERSHIPS

Cosmos Club; Who’s Who in America; Who’s Who in American Law; Vice Chairman, International Organization Committee, 2003-present, Section of International Law and Member, Section of Dispute Resolution, American Bar Association.


LANGUAGES

Reading and speaking knowledge of Spanish; reading knowledge of French.