Andrew Mackenzie has been Chief Executive of the Scottish Arbitration Centre since its establishment in 2011. A solicitor on secondment to the Centre from the Scottish Government, Andrew previously worked as a policy lead in Justice and as a legal adviser to that Government.

Andrew is Co-Chair of the International Bar Association (IBA) Government and Public Lawyers Forum and Chair of the IBA Section on Public and Professional Interest (SPPI) Council’s Working Group on UN SDGs and ESG. He is a former Member of the IBA SPPI Council and former Co-Chair of the IBA Access to Justice and Legal Aid Committee. An Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, he also co-chairs the European Sub-Committee of the Campaign for Greener Arbitration and sits on the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service Arbitration Court Users Group and is a public interest member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland Investigation Committee.