Tom Thomas OBE has been the Deputy Chair of the Civil Mediation Council Limited since April 2017, having previously set up Greater London and East Anglia Mediation LLP (GLEAMED) in April 2008. He is a practicing civil, commercial and workplace mediator and has previously been the Chair of a NHS Market Dispute Resolution Panel and a Visiting Fellow at The Institute for Democracy and Conflict Resolution at University of Essex. Before that Tom spent 10 years working in The City, ultimately as Director, Strategic Development, at Amey PLC and before that was a senior Army officer.