Christopher James Albertyn

Part-time Board member

Christopher James Albertyn has been a mediator and an arbitrator for more than 20 years and is currently a Vice-Chair of the Ontario Labour Relations Board. He was educated in South Africa and holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours), a Baccalaureus Procurationis and a Bachelor of Laws. He has practised as an attorney of the Supreme Court of South Africa and the High Court of Lesotho. He was the founding director of the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Natal and served as a delegate to the Convention for a Democratic South Africa. He is on arbitration panels in Canada, South Africa and the United States and has been admitted to the Minister’s list of arbitrators of the Ontario Office of Arbitration. Mr. Albertyn was appointed as a part-time member of the Public Service Labour Relations Board on February 18, 2008, for a period of five years.