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Chris Albertyn is an arbitrator and mediator working in Ontario, Canada.
He was educated in South Africa and in the U.S. He worked as a trade union organizer for a textile union in Durban, South Africa, in the mid-1970s. He practised labour law in Durban in the 1970s and 80s at Chennells Albertyn. He was the founding Director of the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban.
Since 1985, he has worked as a mediator and arbitrator of labour disputes. He has lived in Toronto since 1993. He was a Vice-Chair of the Ontario Labour Relations Board for over 20 years. He is the former Chair of the Ontario Education Relations Commission and the Ontario Colleges Relations Commission.
He is a member and a Past President of the Ontario Labour-Management Arbitrators’ Association.
He is a member of the National Academy of Arbitrators (NAA) and a former member of its Board of Governors. In 2021-2022 he chaired the NAA’s Special Committee on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging. He also chaired the NAA’s International Studies Committee for several years.
