Clare Ambrose is a full-time arbitrator with expertise and wide-ranging experience in the shipping and energy sectors. She has practised as a barrister from Twenty Essex since 1993, becoming a full-time arbitrator (and full member of the LMAA) in 2017. She was appointed a Deputy High Court Judge in 2018.

She has vast experience sitting as an arbitrator in complex and technical disputes relating to charters and contracts of affreightment, also shipbuilding and repair, offshore construction, long term energy supply agreements, ship sales and commodity trading. However, appointments also include broader commercial disputes, for example relating to joint operation, agency and management agreements, competition law, finance and banking services, construction projects, distribution agreements, professional negligence and share purchase agreements.

As arbitrator she has had over 300 appointments in international arbitrations, sitting as chair, sole and co-arbitrator. Appointments have been made under the rules of the LCIA, ICC, LMAA, SCMA, SIAC, SCC and UNCITRAL, and also on an ad hoc basis.

Clare is a Fellow of CIArb and a Centre for Dispute Resolution (CEDR) accredited mediator.
She frequently lectures on arbitration issues and is co-author of the leading textbook on shipping arbitration, London Maritime Arbitration (4th edn, Informa 2017).