William Thomson holds qualifications in the Humanities and Law. He is an attorney and has been a Senior Commissioner at the CCMA as well as a panellist with Public and Private Sector Bargaining Councils and Accredited Private Dispute Resolution Agencies for over fifteen years. Before this, he was a director, mediator and arbitrator with the Independent Mediation Service of South Africa (IMSSA).

William is an Internationally Accredited Mediator (CEDR), a UCT Graduate School of Business and Internationally Accredited Coach and he is also a research associate in the Faculty of Law at UCT.  

William is a SETA accredited Trainer, Assessor and Materials Developer. He has over twenty years’ experience as a trainer and facilitator, originally having received training in the ‘Training for Learning’ methodology during his time at the Independent Mediation Service of South Africa (IMSSA) in the 1990's.

William facilitates courses on Negotiation, Collective Bargaining, Mediation and Labour Dispute Prevention at a number of South African Universities at certificate and postgraduate level and he also facilitates training for the International Labour Organisation (ILO) at their International Training Centre (ITCILO) in Turin and in other countries.