Gervase MacGregor

I am BDO's Chief Risk Officer and a member of the Executive Board, with responsibility for Legal, Governance, Quality & Risk across the firm. In this role, I work with our leadership, oversight bodies and regulators to help ensure the highest standards of governance and professional quality & risk management. Over more than three decades, I have held a range of leadership positions within BDO, including Head of Quality & Risk, Risk & Reputation Leader, leadership responsibility for Governance, Reputation & Legal, Head of Advisory, Head of Forensic Accounting and Chair of the International Risk Management Committee of the BDO global network.

I am one of the UK's most experienced accounting and valuation expert witnesses, with extensive international arbitration experience across London, Stockholm, Geneva, Paris, Zurich and Rotterdam under LCIA, ICC, SCC, ICSID and ad hoc rules. I've acted as expert witness in hundreds of legal actions and given oral evidence 85 times.

My main areas of expertise are natural resources, particularly oil and gas claims, state and operator disputes, takeover disputes, regulatory matters, and the valuation of companies and damages. Notable work includes advising the United Nations Compensation Commission on compensation claims against Iraq, including the Kuwait oil sector's US$23 billion claim, and investigating the affairs of the MG Rover Group on behalf of the Secretary of State. I'm the author of several books and am ranked across multiple Who's Who Legal guides.

Today, I am focused on governance, regulation, emerging risk and the opportunities and challenges presented by artificial intelligence.

Ask me about Governance, legal and regulatory matters, quality & risk, expert witness engagements, international arbitration, oil and gas disputes, natural resources claims, UNCC work and company valuations.