Dawna Wright is a senior managing director and leader of the Australian forensic practice of FTI Consulting. She is based in Melbourne, Australia. A chartered accountant with 25 years' experience, Dawna began her career as an auditor and has lived and worked in Canada, the United States, France and Australia. She reads, writes and speaks fluent French.
Dawna specialises in economic loss, business valuations and forensic accounting, acting as an expert witness, a consulting expert and an independent expert determiner. Her experience includes general commercial disputes, class action litigation, shareholder disputes, post-acquisition disputes, corporate investigations and financial statement restatements.
Dawna has acted as an expert in many complex and high-profile matters. She has provided expert testimony many times, in litigation in all jurisdictions of Australia, as well as arbitrations seated in Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong. She also has extensive experience with expert conclaves, concurrent evidence and mediations, which are used widely in Australia.
Dawna's international arbitration experience is mainly related to assessing economic loss in the mining, construction, pharmaceutical and manufacturing/distribution sectors. Her litigation experience also reaches across most other sectors.
Dawna has served as a director on several not-for-profi...
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