Qualifications / Training in ADR or Neutral Practice

Formal ADR Qualification

Namita Chauhan holds the Qualified Arbitrator (Q.Arb) designation — the recognised standard for arbitration practice in Canada — conferred by the ADR Institute of Canada (ADRIC) and the ADR Institute of Ontario (ADRIO). She is listed on the ADRIC National Roster of Qualified Arbitrators, making her available for appointment across institutional, ad hoc, and international arbitration proceedings.

The Q.Arb designation is awarded following completion of rigorous training in arbitration law, procedure, evidence, and award writing, combined with an assessment of practical competency. It reflects both the theoretical foundation and the applied readiness required to conduct arbitration proceedings to a professional standard.

Legal and Contractual Framework

Certificate in P3 Law and Practice in Canada — Osgoode Hall Law School, York University. This programme provides advanced grounding in the legal architecture of Public-Private Partnership contracts, concession agreements, performance-based service obligations, and the dispute resolution mechanisms specific to P3 procurement — including payment deduction frameworks, variation entitlement, termination provisions, and the interface between contractual dispute processes and formal arbitration.

Commercial and Contract Governance

Certified Advanced Practitioner in Contracts and Commercial Management — World Commerce and Contracting (World CC), formerly IACCM. This internationally recognised designation reflects advanced competency in contract strategy, commercial risk management, negotiation, claims positioning, and the governance of complex multi-party agreements — the commercial disciplines that sit directly beneath most infrastructure and commercial disputes.

Project and Programme Governance

Project Management Professional (PMP®) — Project Management Institute. The PMP designation reflects advanced competency in programme governance, schedule control, risk management, and stakeholder accountability across complex capital delivery programmes — directly relevant to the delay, disruption, and performance claim disputes that arise in infrastructure and EPC environments.

Technical Sector Training

220kV GIS Operations and Maintenance — Alstom Grid Technical Institute, France. Factory training on gas-insulated substation systems alongside international engineering teams — providing the direct technical foundation for dispute resolution in high-voltage transmission and substation matters.

Grid-Connected PV System Design and Installation — Global Sustainable Energy Solutions (GSES). Specialist training in grid-connected solar photovoltaic systems, supporting practice in energy transition and renewable infrastructure disputes.

Practical Formation

Beyond formal qualifications, Namita\\\'s training in neutral practice is grounded in 20 years of direct participation in the commercial dispute processes that precede and inform formal ADR. At Delhi Transco Limited she represented the organisation in arbitration and litigation alongside legal counsel — observing and contributing to dispute strategy, evidence development, and contract-based positioning from the inside. At Honeywell Building Technologies she applied evidence-based dispute resolution within a structured P3 commercial framework to recover disputed revenue and transfer remediation liability — developing the practical discipline of building and presenting a documented evidentiary position under commercial pressure.

That formation — technical expert, commercial manager, contract strategist, and dispute participant — is the foundation on which her qualification as a neutral is built. The Q.Arb designation formalised it.