Thierry Garby

During his career as an attorney at the Paris bar, dealing mainly with international litigation and arbitration, Thierry Garby studied, practiced and started teaching negotiation. He became a mediator in 1998. In 2010, he left the legal profession to become a full time mediator and trainer.

He is a certified mediator by the International Mediation Institute and the Institut français pour la certification des médiateurs.

He is the founder of the World Forum of Mediation Centres, which brings together mediators and managers of mediation centres from around the world every nine months and of the Académie de la médiation, a French thinktank dedicated to the promotion of mediation

He is the author of several books on conflict management, negotiation and mediation.

He trains negotiators and mediators all around the world through Bars and Law Societies, Universities, International Organisations, Chambers of commerce, mediation institutions and Resolvers, a company he created to this effect.

He is a mediator with the World Bank Group and the United Nations.

He is a Distinguished Fellow of the International Academy of Mediators and a member of the Standards Commission of the International Mediation Institute, which determines the certification standards for mediators worldwide.