Dr Spedding's vast experience of 27 years encompasses constitutional law, community law, copyright law, corporate advice, joint ventures, project finance, drafting contracts, consultancy agreements and technology transfer. Based in London, she specialises as an independent legal adviser in environmental law and has been involved in a number of donor-financed environmental projects in Asia, notably India, where she was admitted to the New Delhi Bar as an Advocate in 1989. She has advised on CSR and corporate responsibility over many years to enable organisations to integrate these concepts to improve performance within the organisations and achieve a sound reputation. Dr. Spedding has extensive experience in and knowledge of international and comparative developed and developing regulatory regimes. She has assisted with particular regulatory drafting needs, as well as implementation and enforcement aspects in various jurisdictions.

Dr. Spedding qualified as a solicitor in the UK in 1975: she left the firm where she trained to obtain more corporate experience with a more internationally minded firm. She added to her experience through an LL.M. in European and International Law and an extended work experience at the Legal Service of the European Commission in Brussels. She was invited to pursue a Ph.D. in European and International Law relating to the freedom of movement of the legal profession while continuing in practice. Over the years since her PhD. (1984) Dr. Spedding has had many works published commencing with "Transnational Legal Practice in the EEC and USA" in 1987, having been admitted to the New York Bar as an Attorney at Law in 1985. She has always maintained an interest in the freedom of legal professionals and in assisting the independence and integrity of the legal profession: hence the launch of the Women in Law newsletter that has been developed in 2002/3 and is to be launched this October under the auspices of the International Bar Association, following the announcement at the World Women Lawyers Conference in July 2003. Since then she has developed WIL's services internationally and the network has expanded into key jurisdictions.

Since the 1980's her work has been published extensively, particularly in the area of environmental law and management, energy and risk, and has spoken regularly at conferences and in-house training sessions.

Dr Spedding was awarded the Alexander Maxwell Law Scholarship Trust Award in the 1995/1996 awards for her contribution in this area. She was also nominated as a People's Peer as a result of her service in the environmental field in 2000 and runner-up as the first law society committee member in environmental law in 2002.

Dr. Spedding has dealt with environmental and energy projects that involve advising both the public and private sectors on the appropriate choice of partners, having regard to different environmental regulatory and voluntary frameworks. Having worked in various regions and mixed cultures Dr Spedding has developed a trans-boundary approach to the provision of her services. She has also assisted in the resolution of issues through alternative dispute resolution outside the usual litigation process and developed a useful understanding and negotiating ability. Over the last two decades she has spent considerable time overseas, particularly in the USA, Europe and India. This experience has enabled her to have a unique understanding in what is involved in international projects. Moreover, it has convinced her of the value of high quality personal services and the need to ensure that they are available to organisations regardless of their size and their basic resources. She has been particularly concerned with the needs of small business and regulation concerns. For three years she was External Policy Advisor to the Forum for Private Business (FPB) in the UK to assist with problem solving in this area.

As a natural extension of her legal practice and legal writing Dr Spedding has become increasingly concerned with issues of risk management and due diligence. She advises business in the UK and abroad on issues relating to ethical business practice, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility and risk. These include energy risk and carbon footprinting. Her handbooks have been published and well received internationally.

Throughout her professional life she has carried out pro bono work and assisted an ethnic minority charity assisting women, children and the handicapped in particular. She is increasingly concerned with the link between traditional positive values and modern living and has edited various sanskrit and Vedic origin texts in the area of health, yoga, the environment and lifestyle: see www.adhyatmikfoundation.org and www.balancedlives.info She is Vice President of AF and in this capacity she has advised the Greenbriar Spa and the Ananda in the Himalayas in relation to appropriate projects. In this context she has concentrated on substantive legal and lifestyle issues of women in law and launched the Women in Law service as the pioneering e newsletter for women: see www.womeninlaw.com and above.