Paul Tichauer

Paul Tichauer is an independent arbitrator focusing on disputes in the industrial, materials, manufacturing, engineering and technology sectors. He has been Chair of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators’ Canada Branch since its inception in 2017 and is a member of the Standing Committee of the ICC International Center for ADR in Paris since 2016. This committee supports the Centre in the recommendation and appointment of Experts and Neutrals as well as its administration of Expert Proceedings. Dr. Tichauer is also Co-Chair of the inaugural CanArbWeek event in 2020.

In 2018, Dr. Tichauer was designated as the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators’ representative at UNCITRAL Working Group lll on Investor-State Dispute Settlement reform. In 2019, he was appointed by the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators as the sole Branch Chair on its Governance Review Working Party. Dr. Tichauer is also a member of the Toronto Commercial Arbitration Society’s Working Group on the reform of domestic arbitration legislation for the Province of Ontario. He has served as a tutor at the CIArb’s Accelerated Route to Fellowship course for several years, and as an arbitrator at the Vis Moot in Vienna and as a Judge at the ICC International Mediation Competition in Paris since 2015.

Dr. Tichauer’s recent arbitral appointments include serving as an ICC-appointed Sole Arbitrator of a multi-party, international dispute concerning the failure of an aircraft jet engine, as Sole Arbitrator for ICDR Canada and as a Public Arbitrator for FINRA – the Financial Regulatory Authority in the USA. More details regarding Paul’s arbitration activities are available at: www.ceoarbitration.com.

Prior to becoming a commercial arbitrator, Dr. Tichauer enjoyed a long and successful C-Suite career with companies providing highly-engineered products and services. He continues to have an active international practice mentoring senior executives from a wide range of manufacturing, engineering, professional and service firms. More details are available at www.tichauer.com.

A Rhodes Scholar, Dr. Tichauer received a BEng (Metallurgy) from McGill University, an MA (Philosophy, Politics and Economics) from Oxford University and a PhD (Metallurgy) from MIT. He also holds an MBA (Finance) with Distinction from Pace University in New York.

​Based in Toronto, Dr. Tichauer is a citizen of Canada by birth and Germany by heritage.