Daniel Meltz AM

Daniel Meltz AM is recognised as one of Australia’s leading international arbitration practitioners with over 25 years of specialist experience. Daniel regularly appears as counsel in both institutional and ad hoc arbitrations as well as sitting as arbitrator internationally and domestically. In 2024 Daniel was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for services to international arbitration and alternative dispute resolution.

Daniel is skilled in commercial contractual disputes including construction, wind & solar, oil & gas, mining and general commercial sectors. He has appeared in a number of arbitration award enforcement cases before Australian courts. Daniel has specific institutional experience as counsel and/or arbitrator in ICC, SIAC, ACICA, LCIA, SCC, CIETAC and AAA-ICDR arbitrations and is highly ranked in leading arbitration guides.

Daniel is a Fellow of the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration and a panel arbitrator on AAA-ICDR, NZIAC, SIAC and ACICA. He currently holds an appointment with the Asian Development Bank as an arbitration expert advising several South Pacific states, including Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Timor-Leste, Tonga, Palau, Vanuatu and Samoa on accession to the New York Convention, drafting national legislation and capacity building.

Daniel was a Visiting Scholar at Stanford Law School, Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Technology, Sydney and lectured the LLM course in international arbitration at the University of New South Wales.

Please see Daniel’s CV for further information about recent cases.