Greg Bond (Co-editor)

Greg Bond teaches mediation, negotiation and cross-cultural communication in master’s programmes in commercial law and management and in MBA programmes at the Technical University of Wildau, Berlin, Germany. He has his own business working as a mediator, trainer and moderator, particularly in workplace mediation and corporate team development. He has a master’s in mediation from the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt / Oder, and a PhD in German literature.

Colin J Wall (Co-editor)

Colin J Wall is a chartered arbitrator, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in both the arbitration and mediation disciplines and an accredited mediator. He has served as a full-time dispute resolver, acting as an arbitrator, mediator, dispute adjudication board member and a dispute resolution adviser for the last 23 years. He is the current co-president of the UIA, World Forum of Mediation Centres, a past president of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, a past chairman of the Hong Kong Mediation Council, and is also a mediation trainer. He is a member of numerous mediation and arbitration panels and is an honorary professor at the University of Hong Kong. He has been listed among the Who’s Who Legal Top Ten most highly regarded commercial mediators for the last four years.

Tracy Allen

Tracy Allen is a full-time mediator, arbitrator and ADR teacher. As a business, tax, real estate and estateplanning attorney, she specializes in national and international mediation, the strategic management and design of corporate and cultural conflict resolution processes, arbitration and ADR training. She writes and teaches extensively throughout the world. She serves on the roster of several dispute resolution organizations, including state and federal courts, CPR, the World Intellectual Property Association, the International Chamber of Commerce, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, the American Arbitration Association, the American Health Lawyer Association and the National Centre for Dispute Resolution. She served on the Michigan Supreme Court ADR Task Force which designed and implemented guidelines for court ADR plans and training of mediators in Michigan. She served as co-chair of the Mediation Committee of the ABA Dispute Resolution Section and is a Fellow and past president of the International Academy of Mediators. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan (BA) and Wayne State University Law School (JD, LL.M Taxation).

Murray Armes

Murray Armes is the founder of Sense Studio, a leading firm of architects in London, specializing in international dispute resolution. He is a chartered architect, chartered arbitrator, mediator, adjudicator, expert witness and dispute board member on the FIDIC President’s List of International Adjudicators. He is a Society of Construction Law Councillor, Region 2 treasurer of the Dispute Resolution Board Foundation, and a practicing member of the Academy of Experts. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, a liveryman and court assistant of the Worshipful Company of Arbitrators and holds a master’s degree in construction law from King’s College, London.

Rebecca Attree

Rebecca Attree is an accredited mediator, non-executive director of ADR Net, accredited member by experience of the English Law Society Panel of Civil and Commercial Mediators and an INADR dual qualified mediator in the US. A Cambridge graduate, Rebecca worked as an English company commercial solicitor for City law firms Richards Butler (now Reed Smith) and Laytons before setting up her own international commercial law practice, Attree & Co, in 1995. Since 2010, Attree & Co provides mediation services to parties in a wide range of disputes. She frequently mediates multi-party disputes, with both represented and unrepresented parties.

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Mohamed Ali Chicktay

Mohamed Ali Chicktay is an academic at the University of the Witwatersrand Law Faculty in Johannesburg, South Africa. In addition to lecturing, he is an accredited mediator and arbitrator for the South African Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration. He has a PhD on the right to strike and ILO standards. He has recently published a number of articles in accredited journals and has recently co-written the book with the South African Law Society entitled Mediation, Negotiation and Arbitration — A Practical Guide to Dispute Resolution. His main areas of interest are labour law, disciplinary proceedings, negotiations, land, commercial and labour mediations and arbitrations. He specializes in these fields both as an academic and a practitioner.

Giovanni De Berti

Giovanni De Berti is an Italian avvocato and barrister of Gray’s Inn (England and Wales, non-practicing). He is now a full-time civil, commercial and family mediator, negotiator and arbitrator. He has been an international counsel for more than 40 years in commercial and corporate matters, mergers and acquisitions, sale of goods, agency, distribution, construction, media and entertainment, product liability, as well as a litigator in these and other fields. He has been an attorney, sole and party appointed arbitrator and panel chairman in domestic and international arbitrations, and attorney and mediator in domestic and international mediations. He has authored various books and articles, reporting, lecturing and training on arbitration and ADR at congresses, courses, seminars and workshops.

Heather Douglas

Heather Douglas has been working in the area of dispute resolution for the past 19 years since obtaining her LL.M (dispute resolution) and her Certificate of Commercial Mediation in 1996. Prior to that she was a litigation lawyer in private practice in Hong Kong. Since 1996 she has worked as an academic in Hong Kong; for an independent review tribunal in Queensland, Australia; as an adjudicator for the Financial O mbudsman Service in London; and as a caseworker within the Solicitors Regulation Authority for England & Wales. In January 2008 she returned to Hong Kong to work in the School of Law at City University of Hong Kong. She was a lead mediator at the Newham Conflict & Change Project in East London and has extensive experience as a volunteer community mediator. She has now joined Commercial, Mediation & Arbitration Services Ltd. as a consultant to focus on mediation and related activities.

Pedro Fida

Pedro Fida is a Brazilian attorney-at-law, who received his LL.B from the FGV São Paulo Law School. He was formerly counsel at the Court of Arbitration for Sport — CAS (Lausanne, Switzerland) and is currently partner of the firm Bichara e Motta Advogados (São Paulo, Brazil). He specializes in sports and entertainment law and dispute resolution, with an emphasis on sports-related contentions and transactions, especially those involving football, Olympic sports, doping, compliance in sports organizations, ethical investigations and disciplinary matters. His work experience includes commercial mediation and international commercial arbitration in the law firms Gómez-Acebo & Pombo (Madrid, Spain) and Pinheiro Neto Advogados (São Paulo, Brazil), and for the Brazilian government, where he served as general counsel for litigation in the Secretariat of Economic Law of the Ministry of Justice (national antitrust authority).

Thierry Garby

Thierry Garby was an attorney at the Paris bar, dealing mainly with international litigation and arbitration. In 2010, he left the legal profession to become a full-time mediator and trainer. He is the founder of the UIA World Forum of Mediation Centres, which brings together mediators and managers of mediation centres from around the world every nine months. He is the author of several books on conflict management, negotiation and mediation. He trains mediators all around the world through bars and law societies, universities, international organizations, chambers of commerce and mediation institutions. He is a mediator with the World Bank Group and the United Nations.

Rosemary Jackson

Rosemary Jackson QC was the first-ever female construction barrister in the UK and practiced as a commercial barrister in London for more than 30 years, specializing in construction and engineering law. Having qualified as a mediator in 2001, she became a full-time mediator, adjudicator and arbitrator in 2014. She mediates commercial disputes of all kinds in the UK and internationally. She was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2006 and practices at Keating Chambers in London.

Michel Kallipetis

Michel Kallipetis QC has 40 years’ experience as a practicing barrister in the commercial, professional negligence and employment fields. He is an accredited mediator with CEDR and ADR Chambers, serves on the Hong Kong HKIAC Accredited Mediator Panel and has been appointed to the Panel of International Mediators for the Singapore Mediation Centre. He is one of the first CIArb Mediation Fellows and was made a distinguished Fellow of the International Academy of Mediators in 2009. He is a full-time mediator, has undertaken in excess of 800 mediations in a wide variety of commercial and multi-party disputes involving international companies and the laws of other countries. He has been listed several times among the Who’s Who Legal Top Ten commercial mediators.

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Alan Limbury

Alan Limbury was awarded honorary life membership of the Business Law Section of the Law Council of Australia in 2013. He is a mediator and arbitrator, holding master’s degrees in law from Oxford University and in dispute resolution from the University of Technology in Sydney. Admitted as a barrister in England before emigrating to Australia in 1964, he practiced as a litigation lawyer in major Sydney law firms before turning to mediation in 1987 and, more recently, to arbitration, as managing director of his own consultancy, Strategic Resolution. Although based in Australia, he also mediates in Europe as an associate member of Crown Office Chambers in London. Between 2004 and 2010, during his membership of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, he became a Fellow through both the mediation and arbitration pathways and a chartered arbitrator, chairman of the Mediation Sub-Committee, chairman of the Practice and Standards Committee and a member of the board of management. He was listed among the Who’s Who Legal Top Ten commercial mediators in 2014.

Richard Lutringer

Richard Lutringer has been a full-time mediator since 2008, with offices in New York and Southern California. For many years he practiced as an international commercial and corporate lawyer in New York City with a major international law firm. He is currently chair of the Advisory Committee on Mediation for the NY County Surrogate’s Court, board member of the New York State Dispute Resolution Association, certified by AAA, IMI, CEDR and the ADR panels of the National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals. He regularly publishes articles and has presented workshops at professional organizations. He has law degrees from Cornell University and the University of Chicago (including studies at LMU in Munich), and has a certificate in Family Business Advising form the Family Firm Institute.

Christopher Miers

Christopher Miers is a chartered architect and chartered arbitrator and is managing director of Probyn Miers Ltd., London, UK. He specializes in dispute resolution work in the construction industry in the UK and internationally, where he regularly undertakes appointments as an arbitrator, adjudicator, mediator, board member or expert witness. He is a CEDR accredited mediator and is a panel member of Resolex, London. He is listed on various panels of arbitrators and adjudicators, including the FIDIC President’s List of international adjudicators. He is the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) representative to the Construction Industry Council Appeals Tribunal, and an RIBA representative on the Joint Contracts Tribunal in the UK. He is regularly appointed as mediator in construction disputes, and has mediated cases varying from fee disputes to retirement agreements.

Manon Schonewille

Manon Schonewille is executive director of Making & Saving Deals Academy International and business mediation provider for ACB Group. After graduation at the law faculty of Groningen University, she worked in several countries for multinational organizations. In the conflict management field she completed courses from CEDR in the UK and the Negotiation and Advanced Negotiation courses as part of the Program of Instruction for Lawyers at Harvard Law School. At the National Conflict Resolution Center (NCRC) in San Diego (US), she gained practical mediation experience and successfully completed the credentialing programme. Her special interests are deal-facilitation, transactional mediation and mediation advocacy. At Utrecht University she teaches the semester course Business Mediation, Conflict Management and M ediation Advocacy, as part of the interfaculty minor in mediation, and she publishes regularly. She is co-chair of the International Committee of the Dispute Resolution Section the ABA as well as one of the assessors for the certification of mediators for the Netherlands Mediation Institute. She is a member of the IMI Independent Standards Commission.