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Professor Hal Abramson is a full-time faculty member at Touro Law Center, New York, where he has taught, trained, arbitrated, mediated, and published articles and books on negotiations, mediation, mediation advocacy, and intercultural and international disputes for more than 30 years.

Professor Abramson’s teaching and training experiences include visiting for a year as a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the U.S. Air Force Academy for the purpose of building their negotiation program and teaching as a full-time visitor at two of the top ADR programs in the U.S., Cardozo Law in NYC and UNLV Law School in Las Vegas where he still serves as a Senior ADR Scholar.  He also has taught or trained on dispute resolution in nineteen countries on six continents.

Professor Abramson, an award-winning author, has published extensively including the leading treatise on representing clients in mediation entitled MEDIATION REPRESENTATION-Advocating as a Problem Solver (Aspen 3rd edition, Oxford University Press 2nd edition, and in Russian) that received the annual book award of the CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution. He co-authored the textbook, INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT RESOLUTION-ADR CONSENSUAL PROCESSES (West).  His recent article on “Nelson Mandela as Negotiator” also received the CPR Award for the best professional article. He recently received Touro University Presidential Award for Scholarship (sole recipient, 2020). For his contributions to the field of dispute resolution, he received the 2013 Peace Builder Award from the New York State Dispute Resolution Association.

Professor Abramson has engaged in a wide range of dispute resolution initiatives since early in his career. He served as Chair of the ABA Committee of the Section for Dispute Resolution that drafted the mediation representation rules for its national competition and served as a member of the inaugural committee that launched the International Chamber of Commerce’s global mediation competition in Paris. For IMI (International Mediation Institute) in The Hague, he chaired the task force that designed the first ever program for certifying intercultural mediators. He served as a public member of the NYS Board that licenses CPAs, and as a consultant to AIG Insurance for training their lawyers and adjusters on mediation advocacy. After Sandy Storm, he assisted FEMA in designing a system for resolving disaster relief claims. For the International Academy of Mediators (IAM), he designed a Scholar-in-Residence program and served as the first one.

In connection with the new Singapore Mediation Convention, he represented IMI and IAM, and assisted the U.S. State Department when the UN (UNCITRAL) drafted the treaty on enforcing cross-border mediated settlement agreements. In addition to participating in drafting sessions over the three years, he served as an expert advisor to UNCITRAL when he designed three mediation education programs for the UN Delegates. He also co-chaired the first symposium on the Convention after it was adopted by the General Assembly. The symposium included speakers who helped draft the Convention and prepared chapters for a book that he edited and has been published.

Professor Abramson is an experienced domestic and international commercial mediator. He has been selected for the International Who’s Who of Commercial Mediation since its inaugural year. He has mediated a range of cases including international ones with translators. He also serves on the Association of American Law Schools’ twenty-person panel that facilitates strategic planning processes at law schools.

At Touro, Professor Abramson served for nine years as vice dean responsible for academic programs, faculty development, and international programs and was one of the first two faculty members inducted in the Law Center’s Builders Society. He also has taught online courses and a range of business-related courses, including contracts, sales, remedies, international business transactions, business organizations, and anti-trust.  He established the law school’s first summer abroad program at Russia’s premier university, Moscow State University, and served as an ABA CEELI (Rule of Law) Specialist in Russia when he worked on two reform projects during Russia’s chaotic effort to build a democracy in the 1990s.

His academic credentials include a Bachelor in Business Adm, Juris Doctor, Master in Public Adm, and LLM.

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Jonathan Rodrigues is certified mediator, with an academic background in Psychology and Law at Goa University, India. Jonathan graduated from his LL.M. studies in Mediation and Conflict Resolution with Distinction from the University of Strathclyde, UK. He currently leads The Institute of Organisational Dynamics, which is a membership think-tank of The TCM Group, based in London. Back in India, Jonathan founded The PACT, a firm dedicated to mediation awareness and training. Through various educational initiatives hosted by The PACT, Jonathan has been able to work with nearly 10,000 law students in India, initiating them into the world of mediation. Over the last two years, Jonathan led  the online mediation services and outreach verticals at India's premier private mediation service provider – CAMP Arbitration and Mediation Practice, based in Bangalore.

Prior to his mediation career, Jonathan enjoyed a successful career in journalism, and was positioned as a senior copy-editor and writer at The Times of India. Jonathan is currently working on a couple of mediation publications, and blogs regularly at Mediate.com and International Mediation Institute. He recently contributed, as an author, to 'Conciliation and Mediation in India' published by Wolters-Kluwer (February 2022) and 'Mediation Moves' published by Wolfgang Metzner Verlag (March 2022).

Jonathan has a TEDx Talk on the Multi-Door Dispute Resolution System, highlighting the immense responsibility of the lawyer and user to promote mediation. He is currently setting up for a broadcasting gig in his role at The TCM Group, where he will host an online chat show titled "@PACE" featuring global insights on the emerging people and culture profession in conflict resolution.

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She holds a degree in Law and Administration. Postgraduate in Negotiation, Mediation and Conflict Resolution – Universidade Católica Portuguesa/Porto Law School-ICFML. Training in Family Mediation at PUC/RJ. Mediator of the TED of the OAB/RJ. Judicial and private mediator certified by the ICFML. Trained mediator by the “Harvard Negotiation Theory” - (CMI INTERNATIONAL GROUP) Harvard University - Massachusetts; Circular-Narrative Mediation – Sara Cob; Linear/Transformative/Circular Narrative Mediation – Marinês Suares. Instructor and Supervisor in Mediation by the CNJ. Organizational Mediator Trained by TRIGON Entwicklungsberatung/ IMO Brasil/ ECOSOCIAL.

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Alessandra Vick has over 10 years of experience with communication and conflict resolution. ICFML certified mediator, lawyer and teacher.
Master in Law from the University of Coimbra - Portugal.
Specialist in negotiation, mediation and conflict resolution by ICFML in partnership with Universidade Católica Portuguesa and specialized in "Online Dispute Resolution" by the ODR Foundation.
Mentor, Consultant and Trainer.

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Lawyer and facilitator.
LL.B at University of São Paulo Law School (1987); LL.M at University of São Paulo Law School with focus on Business Law (1989) and founding partner of Ragazzo, Simões, Lazzareschi e Montoro Advogados in São Paulo, Brazil (since August 11, 1990). Worked before at Pinheiro Neto Advogados and also as a Legal Manager at Alcoa Alumínio S.A.

Certified Mediator (ICFML, IMI, ALGI Mediação, IMAB, MEDIARAS, ADR & ODR INTERNATIONAL, and ODR FOUNDATION) and Trained Negotiator (UCLA-Berkeley, SCOTWORK and Harvard-PON).

Arbitrator and Private Mediator with several cases concluded, mainly before the following institutions ( or Chambers of Arbitration and Mediation): ICC, CAM-CCBC, CAMARB, AMCHAM, CIESP-FIESP, CAMES, CAE-EUROCÂMARAS, SP-ARBITRAL, FECOMÉRCIO ARBITRAL, INAMA.

Conciliator at the TED (Tribunal of Ethics and Discipline) from OAB/SP (Brazilian Bar Association - São Paulo Chapter) since 2018, working with the 3rd and the 6th Chambers.  Member of AASP (Lawyer´s Association of São Paulo),  member of CBAr | GEMEP (Brazilian Arbitration Committee, Group of Private Business Mediation); and Director and Consultive Counselor at ICFML-Brazil.

Teacher and Coordinator of the Mediation and Arbitration Courses for the MBA Programs of CEU-LAW SCHOOL in São Paulo, and Teacher of Negotiation and Communication for Post-Graduate programs at FIAP and IBMEC-SP also in São Paulo.

Married since 1990 and happy husband of Adriana and a proud father of Juliana, Rodrigo, Rafael, Daniela, André and Patricia and a funny and learning grandfather (so far) for the little and beauty Lorena.

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He is a senior lawyer in the area of ​​Dispute Resolution. He has around 15 years of experience in dispute resolution, focused on litigation and the last 10 years in arbitration and mediation.
Over the past few years, he has been involved as a lawyer in more than 20 arbitrations, both international and domestic, under various arbitration regulations and based in several countries. He represents clients from various sectors, namely energy, transport, tourism, construction and international trade.
He organizes and participates, including as a speaker, in seminars and conferences, frequently collaborates in master's and postgraduate courses at the main law schools in matters related to arbitration and mediation. He is the author of several articles and speaker at conferences on arbitration and mediation, having, inter alia, collaborated on the APA's Annotated Voluntary Arbitration Act since its 3rd edition. He has an LL.M. in International Legal Studies from Georgetown University - Law Center in Washington DC. He is a certified mediator by the ICFLM and a member of APA – Portuguese Arbitration Association.

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A Lawyer of counsel at Abreu Advogados, where she integrates the practice areas of Labour Law, Litigation & Arbitration and Corporate, Commercial and M&A.

She focuses on matters relating to regular advice to national companies, including opinions, analysis and drafting of contracts, audits, disciplinary procedures, hiring and firing, counterordenations and litigation, and also provides regular assistance of private clients, especially in the areas of labor, family and civil law.

She has intervention in the following sectors of activity: automotive sector, tourism & leisure, third sector, insurance, technology, media & telecommunications and private clients & family businesses.

Bárbara is a Researcher at the Center for Legal and Economic Research (CIJE), Faculty of Law of the University of Porto.

She is Speaker and Invited Lecturer in the Postgraduate Course in Labour Law organised by the Oporto Court of Appeal and CIJE and in the Law Master's Seminar of the Catholic University of Porto "From Negotiation to Mediation: Managing Differences”.

Bárbara is currently attending a PhD course in Labour Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Porto.

She has Law degree (2003) and Master degree in Law in a specialization in Legal-Privatistic Sciences, Labour Law, from the Faculty of Law, University of Porto, Post-graduate studies in Labour Law at the Institute of Company and Labour Law and an Executive Master in Management for Jurists by the Católica Porto Business School (2011).

Bárbara is a Mediator Certified by ICFML and she is the Executive Director of the Portuguese Pole of the Institute for Certification and Training of Lusophone Mediators.

Bárbara is Member of the Portuguese Bar Association since 2005.

Bárbara lives in Porto with her husband and two children and loves hosting family and friends at her home.

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Executive Director for Executive Education - Católica Porto Business School and Business Recovery Mediator.
Doctoral candidate in Business Administration at ISCTE – IUL. BSc in Business Administration and Management (1996). Postgraduate in Management and Industrial Organisation (2000) and Management (2009). Degree of Business Recovery Mediation at ICFML (2021). Currently is Executive Director for Executive Education at CPBS - Católica Porto Business School. Full member of the Order of Economists and the Order of Certified Accountants. He was Visiting Professor at ISG – Business and Economics School (2018-2021), Vice-President of sports club Sporting Clube de Portugal (2013-2018), CEO of education group Ensinus, which included ISG – Business and Economics School (2007-2016), Director of education group Unisla (2011-2013), Visiting Professor at ISCAD and ULHT (2004-2007), Director at media conglomerate Grupo Media Capital (2002-2007), Manager at Vodafone (1998-2002) and Auditor at PWC (1996-1998). He is Vice-President of ANESPO – National Association of Professional Schools, AMRE – Association of Business Recovery Mediators and ITREN – Institute of Energy Transition and is a member of the Board of CNEF – National Confederation of Education and Training. He is a member of the Supervisory Board of CCP – Confederation of Commerce and Services of Portugal.

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Catherine Davidson is a mediator practising in Australia and internationally.

She is nationally accredited (NMAS), and certified by the International Mediation Institute (IMI) and Singapore International Mediation Institute (SIMI). Catherine has mediated over nine hundred commercial and workplace disputes and is appointed to international and national panels including the Abu Dahbi Global Markets Arbitration Centre Panel of Mediators, SIMI Mediator Panel, NSW Government Office of Small Business Commissioner Panel, Australian Disputes Centre Mediator Panel, Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman (Franchising) Mediation Panel, the NSW Farm Debt Mediation Panel and is a Mediator with the NSW Personal Injury Commission.

Catherine has a legal background having practised commercial litigation in Sydney and London.

Her commercial disputes practice includes construction, engineering and infrastructure, corporate, intellectual property, banking and finance, insurance, professional negligence, professional services, transport, wills/estates, commercial leases, IT, partnership agreements, franchising, small business and medical matters.

Catherine is a member of the teaching faculty with the Australian Disputes Centre mediation courses in Asia Pacific. She lectures on Negotiation Skills in the Advanced and Executive MBA programmes of University of Technology Sydney, and teaches Negotiation and Conflict Management in the public and private sectors in Australia, India, China and South-East Asia. She is visiting faculty for MNLU Mumbai India; and the University of Law and Political Science Shanghai China.

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Cátia Marques Cebola is an Assistant Professor, teaching Alternative Dispute Resolution and Civil Law, at the Polytechnic of Leiria in Portugal.

She carried out her doctoral work at the University of Salamanca, Spain and defended her thesis on the theme Mediation – a complementary way to the Administration of Justice. She has a Graduation and a Master in Civil Law by the University of Coimbra, Portugal. In 2006 she took a Practical Course of Mediation approved by the Portuguese Ministry of Justice and attended the Harvard Mediation Program in 2010.

She is author of several studies and articles about mediation and arbitration and participates in research projects related to the study of mediation, in particular she was partner in the EMEDEU project financed by the EU (JUST/2013/JCIV/AG/4689) that aimed to development of a prelegislative proposal for the improvement of the effective electronic mediation in cross-border civil and commercial matters at European level, laying the groundwork for future real application of the European rules about ODR and legal study and design of the European Code of Conduct for electronic mediators.

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Daniel Rainey is a principal in Holistic Solutions, Inc. (HSI ), and an adjunct faculty member in graduate dispute resolution programs and law schools.

He is currently a Fellow of the National Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution, a member of the Board of Directors for the InternetBar.Org, and a founding member and founding Board Member, and Chair of the Governance Committee of the International Council for Online Dispute Resolution (ICODR).  He is the Co-Chair of Working Group 3 of the ODR Task Force for the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution, and  Co-Chair of the International Mediation Institute’s Online Mediator Competency Task Force.  He is an immediate past member of the Supreme Court of Virginia’s Access to Justice Commission, Self-Represented Litigants Committee.  He was recently added as a participant observer to the Uniform Law Commission’s Study Committee on the Singapore Convention.

He was one of the instructors for the first university ODR course (at the University of Massachusetts – Amherst), and he (with Colin Rule) designed and taught the first ODR course required in a graduate dispute resolution program (at Creighton University).  He has developed graduate level ODR courses for several universities, in addition to skills-based ODR training for dispute resolution centers and professional associations.  As a consultant, he has worked with clients in the the development of ODR resources, intercultural negotiation skills, Ombudsman programs, and organizational conflict engagement programs in the public, private, and non-profit sectors.

He is one of the Editors-in-Chief of the International Journal of Online Dispute Resolution. He is also an author/editor of the award-winning book, Online Dispute Resolution Theory and Practice (2nd edition published in 2021), and numerous other book chapters and articles about ODR and ADR.

In September, 2017, he retired as the Chief of Staff for the National Mediation Board, and in October, 2017, at the Association for Conflict Resolution annual conference, he received the Mary Parker Follett Award for innovation in dispute resolution.

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Founder of Faleck & Associados, the first dispute resolution firm fully specialised in mediation and settlement counsel in Brazil, with a unique track record in business mediations, national and international, and dispute systems design for major and notorious national cases. Received his LLM degree from Harvard Law School and his PhD degree from the University of São Paulo. Held significant government positions in Brazil in antitrust matters and consumer protection. Featured by Who’s Who Legal as a Global Elite Thought Leader and as the leading business mediator in Latin America. Adjunct Professor on Advanced Topics in Dispute Resolution at the Straus Institute at Pepperdine Law School - Malibu-CA. Author of articles and books in the field.

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Ellen Waldman has been active in the fields of mediation and medical ethics for over two decades.

In the area of dispute resolution, she writes,   trains, consults and mediates in a broad range of cases, including end-of-life in the health –care context. Former chair of the International Mediation Institute’s ethics committee, and task-force member for the California judicial council’s working-group on training requirements for court-connected mediators, Waldman has been deeply involved in policy questions relating to the qualification and ethics training of mediators.

She has published more than 25 articles on numerous dispute resolution topics and crafted the first book-length treatment of  ethical dilemmas in mediation, entitled Mediation Ethics: Cases and Commentaries.

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She is an independent lawyer based in Lisbon, with over 20 years of experience in international dispute prevention and resolution. Filipa has acted in more than 50 arbitrations, involving jurisdictions in Europe, Africa and Latin America, in Portuguese, English, French and Spanish and in a wide variety of sectors.

Before devoting herself exclusively to dispute prevention and resolution, Filipa worked in construction law. During that time, Filipa acted for both public entities and private companies, drafting and negotiating contracts, assisting Clients in the execution of various large construction projects in Europe and other continents and successfully negotiating several settlements at the pre-dispute stage.

In 2020, Filipa left a leading Portuguese firm to focus on her practice as arbitrator and mediator. Filipa acts regularly as arbitrator and is also a CEDR-accredited mediator.

Filipa is a member of the board of the Arbitration Centre of the Portuguese Chamber of Commerce and Industry. She also co-chairs the mentoring programme of CEA Mujeres for women in arbitration, is a member of the arbitration practice committee of the Portuguese Arbitration Association and an associate of the NOVA Centre on Business, Human Rights and the Environment. Filipa has been consistently recognized as counsel and arbitrator by international major legal directories including Who’s Who Legal.

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He has 15 years of experience in international dispute resolution including roles as mediator, arbitrator, attorney, and academic. He is an associate professor of law at Waseda University, where he teaches courses in commercial and investment mediation, and a mediation training expert at the Office of the Ombudsman for United Nations Funds and Programmes. James is the chairman of a working group of the International Mediation Institute and an officer of the Mediation Committee of the International Bar Association. He has worked with the United States Agency for International Development and the International Finance Corporation on mediation capacity-building projects. His publications on mediation appear in the Asian Journal on Mediation, The Journal of World Trade, and the Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Law Journal. A Fellow in the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, James began his career as an attorney specializing in international arbitration in Paris and was legal counsel at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes of the World Bank in Washington.

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He is an Appropriate Dispute Resolution (ADR) Neutral and Attorney-at-Law who provides a broad range of international dispute prevention and resolution services.  He specializes in complex commercial disputes, cross-cultural disputes, online dispute resolution, new technologies, start-ups and intellectual property matters.  He is a member of the Independent Advisory Committee of the International Mediation Institute (IMI), a member of its “Mixed Modes” taskforce, and sits on the Board of the Swiss Chamber of Commercial Mediation (Section Romandie).  Jeremy is a panelist with several international ADR institutions (including AAA/ICDR, CPR, CMAP, ICC, SCCM, SIMC, WIPO).  He qualified as an English barrister in 1989, as a US Attorney-at-Law in 1990/1 (NY State, CAFC & USPTO) and is admitted to the Geneva Bar since 2003 as a foreign lawyer, and is a member of its ADR Commission.  Jeremy is a Door Tenant with QUADRANT CHAMBERS (GB), counsel to HELVETICA AVOCATS SARL (CH) and LEGAL REBEL (NL), and a consultant to NEGO-MEDIATIONS SARL (CH).  He also serves as general counsel to SONARSOURCE SA and MINDMAZE HOLDING SA, and as an ombudsperson to the DRUGS FOR NEGLECTED DISEASES INITIATIVE, a non-profit organization.  He has served on several boards of directors and as a business executive for several start-ups.  Jeremy has a MA (Oxon) degree in Physiological Sciences and in Jurisprudence from Lincoln College, Oxford University.  He is a co-founder of www.neuroawareness.com, INNOVADR and several start-ups.  Jeremy handles international negotiations, mediations, conciliations and arbitrations, and mixed modes of ADR processes in a wide range of fields and industries.  He is a certified IMI mediator and mediation advocate and has written and lectured extensively on Guided Choice dispute resolution and the design of combined ADR processes to customize ADR proceedings early in on complex cases.  He has two daughters and lives in Geneva, Switzerland with his wife, with whom he co-mediates.  For more information, please see: www.lawtech.ch.

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She holds a degree in Law, Faculdades Integradas Vianna Junior (2005) and a Master's Degree, Federal University of Viçosa (2016).

She is a certified judicial and private mediator by the Escola Judicial Desembagador Edésio Fernandes - EJEF (2013) and Institute for Certification and Training of Lusophone Mediators- ICFML (2015). Mediation and Conciliation Instructor at - ENAM (2014). Mediator at the International Mediation Institute - IMI (2016). Member of the Collaborative Practices group, certified by the IBPC (2015). Guest professor of the Postgraduate Course at UNIVIÇOSA.

Judicial Support Officer at the Minas Gerais Court of Justice (2006), currently holding the position of supervisor of CEJUSC in Juiz de Fora-MG (2015). Facilitator in Restorative Justice at Escola Superior da Magistratura do Rio Grande do Sul - Ajuris (2016).

Experience in the field of Law, with an emphasis on Law, working mainly on the following subject: training, conciliation, mediation.

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Executive Director of Fundação Getulio Vargas Mediation and Arbitration Chamber. Technical Coordinator of FGV Mediation. Academic Coordinator of Center for Judicial Innovation, Administration and Research (CIAPJ) at FGV. Counselor and President of the Mediation Commission at OAB-RJ. Mediation and Negotiation Teacher at FGV EBAPE, LLM FGV Direito Rio, EMERJ and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Doctor in Law from Université Paris 1 Pantheón Sorbonne and from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Masters in Law from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Lawyer and Mediator.

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He is a facilitator of mediated agreements at Faleck & Associates (2021). He holds a LL.B from Positivo University (2018) and has received extensive training in ADR. In Brazil, he has been trained at the State of Parana/Curitiba District Family Courts (2017).
In the US, Lucas has attended the Mediating the Litigated Case (2022) and the U.S. Law and ADR programs (2019) at the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution/Pepperdine University.
In Israel, Lucas has attended the Hebrew University of Jerusalem/Hamline University program on conflict resolution according to the three major religions Judaism, Christianity, and Islamism (2020).

Lucas has also acted as a mediator at State of Paraná/Curitiba District Family Courts (2017-2018) and is an associated member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators – Brazil Chapter (2022).

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Marcelo Perlman is a commercial mediator established in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

He is a Distinguished Fellow of the International Academy of Mediators (IAM), has been included in the Panel of Distinguished Neutrals of The International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution (CPR), from New York, and in the rosters of mediators of reputable providers in Brazil and Portugal. Marcelo is also registered as a judicial mediator by approval of the Court of Justice of the State of Sao Paulo. His mediation practice has been recognized in the rankings Mediators - Brazil – 2021 and 2022, published by Leaders League, and by the 2021 Lexology Client Choice Awards for Mediation in Brazil.

Marcelo obtained his Law degree from University of São Paulo and his LL.M. degree from University of Chicago Law School with a final grade equivalent to High Honors. He is trained in commercial mediation by Pepperdine University, by the Center for Dispute Resolution, run by Kenneth Cloke, both in California, by the N.Y. Bar, jointly with Fordham University, in New York, and by Instituto Mediare, from Rio de Janeiro.

Marcelo has been recognized as leading lawyer by Chambers Global and Latin America, Legal 500 Latin America, Latin American Corporate Counsel Association - LACCA, Best Lawyers and IFLR1000.

Marcelo is currently Co-Chair of the Mediation Task Force of the Instituto Brasileiro de Direito Empresarial – IBRADEMP (Brazilian Institute of Business Law), effective member of the Special Committee for Commercial Mediation of the Sao Paulo section of the Brazilian Bar Association, and member of the Advisory Committee of Instituto Mediare. He is also Vice Chair of Membership of the Insolvency Section of the International Bar Association - IBA, and Vice President of the Board of Officers of the non-profit Brazilian Jewish hospital Albert Einstein.

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Partner of Eizirik – Advogados, with more than 20 (twenty) years of experience in corporate and capital market issues. Postgraduate in Business Law - Law of Economics and The Company by Fundação Getúlio Vargas - FGV, Rio the Janeiro. Graduated in Conflict Mediation by MEDIARE, 2014.

Specialist in Mediation and Negotiation by the Program on Negotiation of Harvad Law School, USA, and advanced mediator certified by Instituto de Certificação e Formação de Mediadores Lusófanos - ICFML. Post graduated in Negotiation, Mediation and Conflict Resolution by ICFML, 2020, and specialized in On Line Dispute Resolution by the ODR Foundation.

Mediator of the Brazilian Chamber of Mediation and Arbitration - CBMA, the FGV Mediation and Arbitration Chamber and the Mediare Panel.

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Marilia works exclusively with consensus building.

Collaborative lawyer and mediator certified by the ICFML - Instituto de Certificação e Formação de Mediadores Lusófonos/IMI, with training by the ODR Practitioner Certification Program. Lecturer and invited professor in specialization and post-graduation courses dealing with the adequate means of conflict resolution. Bachelor in Performing Arts from USP – Universidade de São Paulo. Specialist in Family and Succession Law from Escola Paulista de Direito - EPD. President of the Board of the Brazilian Institute of Collaborative Practices - IBPC; accredited professor by the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals - IACP; member of the National Commission of Mediation of the Brazilian Institute of Family Law - IBDFAM, and Gemep/CBAr - Group of Corporate Mediation of the Brazilian Committee of Arbitration. Participant of the group Families in the XXI Century of the Psychoanalysis Department of Instituto Sedes Sapientiae. Coordinator of the joint book "Family Problems in Law", author of legal articles and fiction short stories.

Marilia loves reading and going to the theater, as well as being curious about new technologies and storytelling. She lives in São Paulo, Brazil, with her husband and two young-adults-sons, in a house where she takes care of worms and community composting, cultivating flowers, affections, and ideas.

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Mônica de Salles Lima

President of the ICFML's Brazil Branch (Institute for the Certification and Training of Lusophone Mediators) Partner at Fonseca e Salles Lima Advogados Associados. Lawyer, graduated from UERJ. Postgraduate in Civil Law and specialization in Civil-Constitutional Law. Mediator with MEDIARE training in Conflict Mediation and in Mediation and Negotiation by the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School Executive Education. Judicial Mediator. ICFML Certified Advanced Mediator. Certified Lawyer in Mediation by the ICFML. Member of the OAB/RJ Mediation Commission and member of several lists of mediators in Brazil, including: CBMA, CAM-CCBC, FGV, CAMARB, MEDIARE and OAB/RJ

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She has a long experience as an attorney-at-law focusing on commercial contracts and corporate matters such as M&A transactions and reorganisation of businesses.

She helps clients setting up projects and negotiating cross-border contracts, mostly related to ICT and new technologies. 25 years ago she discovered the power of mediation for the resolution of disputes and since then she has developped a practice as mediator in civil, labour and commercial disputes in a wide range of fields and industries.

Helena is a certified mediator with IMI, the Belgian Federal Mediation Commission, Mediation and various foreign mediation institutions. She is a Member of the IMI (International Mediation Institute), Independent Standards Commission and sits on the board of bMediation.

Helena is a member and former chairman of the Mediation and Conflict Prevention Commission of the UIA.

She is a frequent lecturer in Belgium and abroad on ADR (Alternative Dispute Resolution) matters and has a vast experience in mediation training, in Europe and worldwide.

She is a deputy judge at the Court of Appeal of Brussels and is a director of the Belgium - Luxemburg - Brazilian Chamber of Commerce.

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Maria Cavaleiro Brandão is a Managing Associate of the Labour practice at Vieira de Almeida Law Firm (VdA).

She is an ICFML certified Dispute Mediator (2016) and in that role developed unique negotiating skills. She has participated as speaker in the II and III International Mediation Café – Portugal Chapter and in the II Congress of the National Federation of Conflict Mediation (FMC). She integrates the List of Mediators of the Commercial Arbitration Centre of the Portuguese Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Her academic background is Law Degree, Universidade Católica Portuguesa Porto Law School; Postgraduate in Building and Construction Law, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Porto Law School; Postgraduate in Labor Law and Labor Procedural Law, Universidade Católica Portuguesa Porto Law School; Dispute Mediation Course with double certification, Instituto de Formação e Certificação de Mediadores Lusófonos (ICFML), Universidade Católica do Porto.

Other professional background: before joining VdA, she was a Senior Associate at PLMJ – Advogados, SP, RL (between 2009 and 2021); Founding Partner at Cavaleiro Brandão, Pinheiro Torres, Cabral, Sousa e Silva e Associados law firm (between 2006 and 2009); and Partner at Vellozo Ferreira, Cavaleiro Brandão, Pinheiro Torres, Cabral e Associados law firm (between 1997 and 2006). She was a Civil Procedure II (Enforcement Proceedings) Trainer at Porto Bar Association’s Training Center (between 2007 and 2009).

Member of the Portuguese Bar Association since 1995.

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Born in Porto
Law Degree
Post Graduate in Sports Law
Member of the Jurisdictional Council of the LPFP – Portuguese Professional Football League
Member of the Justice Council of the FPC – Portuguese Cycling Federation
Councilor for Sports, Youth and Tourism of the Oliveira de Azeméis
Specialization in Local Public Finance and Good Governance
Director of ICFML - Institutional Relations
Consultant / Trainer
Businessperson

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Legal Analyst at the Public Ministry of the Union, assigned to the Public Ministry of Labor. Master and Doctor in State Law - Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo. Postgraduate at the Catholic University of Porto-Portugal in the course of Mediation, Negotiation and Conflict Resolution. Mediator trained and certified by ICFML-IMI and ESPM-SP. Director of Relations with ICFML Certificates. Coordinator of the Mediation and Public Administration Subgroup of Café com Mediação. Member of the Mediation Task Force with Public Administration of the CAM CCBC Mediation Advisory Board. Author and Co-author of Books and Articles on Public Law and Mediation.

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Renata is dual qualified lawyer in Portugal and Angola. She is the founding partner of PLMJ Colab Angola – RVA Advogados, a leading law firm based in Luanda. Coming from an international family and with a teaching background at Angolan universities, she gained relevant experience in multicultural relationships. As lawyer, she has solid experience in the negotiation of commercial contracts involving international parties. She has also mediated labour disputes and acted as lawyer in construction arbitrations.

Renata is a ICFML (Instituto de Certificação e formação de Mediadores Lusófonos) certified dispute mediator and active member of ICFML Portugal.

She obtained her Law degree at Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Porto Law School and completed post graduate studies in Human Rights, International Relations, Arbitration and Mediation.

Renata speaks fluently Portuguese, English and Italian. She lives between Porto, Lisbon and Luanda and describes herself as a meditative person.

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He is a New York qualified attorney and counsellor-at-law, currently Of Counsel at Abreu Advogados in Lisbon. He is a graduate from the University of Paris X Nanterre Law School. He has an LL.M in Alternative Dispute Resolution of the University of Texas in Austin, during which he became a certified mediator, and where he participated in the Graduate Portfolio Program in Alternative Dispute Resolution, presenting his research on "Cyber- Arbitration". He has authored various articles and book chapters on the topic of mediation and ADR, including an award-winning paper entitled "Cross-Border Commercial Mediation". He is the co-founder of the ICFML – Instituto de Certificação e formação de Mediadores Lusófonos, a non-profit organization aimed at training and certifying Portuguese-speaking mediators. Thomas also teaches mediation and negotiation in Portugal’s best law schools.

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She is a collaborative lawyer, mediator and professor.
Graduated in Law at Universidade de São Paulo (1993), Master's Degree in Law at Universidade de São Paulo (1999) and Master's Degree in Law at Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata” (2000), Sandra is actually doing her studies for Civil Law PhD. Sandra is professor at Faculdades Metropolitanas Unidas, for Mediation and Arbitration Practice. She has experience in Law, focusing on Conflict Mediation, Civil Law and Collaborative Practice.
Sandra is a conflict mediator since 2001, with a variety of national and international courses in this area, such as Transformative Mediation, with Joseph Folger; Negotiation, with Giuseppe di Palo; Narrative mediation with Sara Cobb; Social Constructionism, with Kenneth Gergen and Sheila McNamee. Sandra is certified by ICFML as an advanced mediator.
She is a founder partner at Instituto D'accord de Mediação de Conflitos. Sandra is a private mediator and institutional mediator for many Mediation and Arbitration Chambers. She is registered by the National Justice Council of Brazil as a judicial mediator and mediation instructor.
Sandra acts as a member of different national institutional groups for the development of Conflict Mediation in Brazil , such as the National Council for the Institutions of Arbitration and Mediation (CONIMA), National Forum for Mediation (FONAME), Mediation Commission for the State of São Paulo Bar Association and for the Federal Bar Association.
Her competencies go from Mediation for civil, organizational, business conflicts; Mediation for community conflicts; Mediation for Family conflicts; Collaborative Law; Consensus building; Trainer for mediation and dialogue processes; to Conscious contracts.
Sandra’s Language Skills are: Portuguese (native speaker); French (advanced); English (advanced); Italian (advanced); Spanish (intermediate) and German (intermediate).

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She is both a lawyer and a mediator. Specialized in dispute resolution, including litigation, arbitration, mediation, and negotiation. An expert in mediation and dispute resolution, she writes and speaks on the topic as an invited guest to congresses and courses. ICFML has certified her as a lawyer in mediation (2018) and with advanced certification (2018). Furthermore, she holds certification in Mediating Disputes (2015) and Negotiation (2015) at Harvard Law School, and she has completed a transformative mediation course with Prof. Joseph Folger (2015) at IMAB - the Institute of Mediation and Arbitration of Brazil. Participates in a dispute resolution board foundation that certifies performance in dispute boards regarding service provision contracts for the Rio 2016 Olympics.  Member of the list of mediators of several Arbitration and Mediation Chambers, with experience in civil, commercial and energy disputes.

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Mediator for private and judicial disputes, specializing in family businesses and community conflicts.

For now, she is certified as a mediator for ENAM-CNJ, EPM-SP, and ICFML, in Brazil, and for IMAP, in Portugal.

Her legal background is in commercial, family and real estate.

Fernanda has experience in training mediators in Brazil for CNJ and EPM. She regularly observes, writes, and speaks on the development of mediation and dispute resolution, as a lecturer and invited professor in specialization and post-graduation courses.

She is a Master in Alternative Solutions for Business Disputes, research line in Mechanisms of the National System of Dispute Solutions, by Escola Paulista de Direito – EPD. Currently undertaking doctoral research in International Politics and Conflict Resolution at the University of Coimbra, Portugal. Fernanda’s language skills are in Portuguese (native speaker); English (advanced) and Spanish (intermediate).

Fernanda ran in the last municipal election in Piracicaba/SP-Brazil, which inspired her to study international politics and conflict resolution. Her hobbies include doing exercise and talking a lot. Loves to spend time with family and friends, even better when it involves food. Currently lives in Vila Nova de Gaia/Portugal, with her husband and the best landscape of Porto, where they develop a law office, digital mediation service, a bunch of love, a PhD research, affections and new ideas (all together).

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Ana Maria Maia Gonçalves is a mediation trainer and practitioner and online dispute resolution expert. She has over 35 years of experience as a business leader in global organizations, as a lawyer, mediation trainer, mediator and executive coach.

She started her career in the IT industry and in only a few years, she was leading a team of 150 customer support professionals at Microsoft France, before launching successfully a highly strategic Regional Support Center for Microsoft Europe. She then got trained as a lawyer, became an international expert about conflict resolution, and then an executive coach and is now MCC accredited by the International Coaching Federation and ICFML Master, ADRg and IMI certified mediator.
She developed an international non-for-profit organization dedicated to professionalizing the practice of mediation in Portuguese-speaking countries, the Institute of Certification and Training of Portuguese-speaking Mediators (ICFML), led a diverse team of volunteers based in three continents and had to regularly influence high-power stakeholders from various industries to get their buy-in. She is a regular facilitator in global leadership development programs and lecturer in international conferences on conflict prevention, resolution and negotiation and delivers conflict resolution courses in various universities in Europe. Ana is fellow of NCTDR - University of Massachusetts, mediator of the Global Mediation Panel of the Office of the Ombudsman for UN Funds and Programmes and  co-founder of the Alliance of Mediators for Universal Disclosure – UDPM. More recently, before the pandemic made Zoom ubiquitous, she co-designed and delivered the first online course about how to use online technologies to resolve conflicts at distance.

With a rich experience in learning, practicing and teaching mediation worldwide, Ana is prepared to mediate in a unique way. She has experience in cross-border disputes in Europe, Australia and the United States. She is a lawyer and mediator (like so many) but her senior management experience at Microsoft has equipped her with a ready understanding of the nature of cross-border business and its complexities in a globalized business environment.
Ana is an ideas person, but her deep roots in business and also in the law give her the unique ability to put those ideas in ways that resonate with business, while assisting business people to think beyond the usual boundaries of problem-solving.

Ana has strong intercultural skills; she has lived, worked and traveled in many countries, and she recognises and adapts easily to a wide range of different demands and settings. Ana is a graduate from UAL Lisbon (2008). She is trilingual English, Portuguese and French. She lives in Singapore with her husband and son, has two granddaughters who live in Australia with her daughter, and enjoys sailing and photography.

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Ursula Caser is a mediator practising in Europe with a focus on Portugal and Germany

Born in Oberstdorf, Germany, her basic profession is Physical Geographer. Since 2000 she holds a master degree as a Mediator from the European Master in Mediation.

Her main areas of work focus on community mediation, public dialogue, consensus building and mediation in complex planning and decision making processes (public service, academic field, schools, enterprises), facilitation and moderation of meetings and public participation processes, training and lecturing (facilitation techniques, conflict management, general and multiparty mediation). www.uc-mediation.eu

She is a specialist for research integrity and public engagement; an experienced trainer and coach in the field, designing and conducting institutional, organisational and individual trainings and coaching programs since 2007.

Ursula works also an official conflict mediator (accreditation by the Portuguese Ministry of Justice) for the Julgados de Paz of Cascais, Lisbon, Sintra, Seixal and Odivelas.

As a mediator she holds accreditations by CEDR – Center of Effective Dispute Resolution, IMI – International Mediation Institute and is a member of the Board of Examiners of the Master in Mediation by the FernUniversität in Hagen. Furthermore she is Part of the OSCE – Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe - Mediation Rooster and a Certified EPOMM-Trainer

From 2015 to 2021 she was a researcher at the Munich Centre of Technology in Society at the Technical University in Munich, Germany and since 2021 she is a researcher at Univerity of Hamburg, Germany, focussing specifically on co-creative investigation, knowledge transfer management, mediation and preventive conflict management in planning and decision-making processes, collaborative governance dynamics and stakeholder involvement in RRI-uptake,  foresight and technology assessment
www.uni-hamburg.de/en/transfer/kontakt/team-ta/ursula-caser.html

She works and lectures in Portuguese, German, English, and Spanish.

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He is a bachelor of Law from the Law School of the University of São Paulo – USP. Especialist lato sensu in Diffuse and Collective Rights from the Escola Superior do Ministério Público do Estado de São Paulo. Holds a Master's degree from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo - PUC-SP.

In addition, he has extensive experience in several institutions such as chair of the Board of Directors at the Brazilian Institute for Mediation and Arbitration (IMAB), member of the College of Former Presidents and President of the Ethics Committee of the National Council of Mediation and Arbitration Institutions - CONIMA and of the IBPC - Brazilian Institute of Collaborative Practices, also member of the Mediation and Arbitration Commission of the Brazilian Bar Association – São Paulo section and of the Mediation and Arbitration Commission of the Brazilian Arbitration Committee – CBAr.

He's written several articles on negotiation, mediation, and arbitration, and co-authored the following books: What is Conflict Mediation – First Steps Collection, Editora Brasiliense, São Paulo, 2007, and Aspectos Actuals sobre Mediation and Other Extrajudicial Resolution Methods of Conflicts, Editora GZ, Rio de Janeiro, 2012; author of the books: Mediação - A Brazilian Experience, Editora CL-A First Edition 2017 -Second Edition 2019, and of A Mediação e a Administração Pública, Editora CL-A 2021 and organizer of the books: Family Mediation - the experience of the 2nd Court of Tatuapé Forum Family, CL-A Publisher 2018; Business Mediation - Brazilian experiences, Editora CL-A 2019, and Justice - reflections on paths beyond the Judiciary, Editora CL - A 2022.

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He is a collaborative and consensual lawyer formed by PUC/SP. Mediator certified by ESA/OAB/SP, ALGI, Mediaras,

ICFML, IMAB and ODR, among other courses. Director of Relations with

the ICFML-Polo BR. Secretary General of the Commission on Advocacy in Mediation and Conciliation of OAB/SP. Postgraduate in Proper Conflict Resolution, by ESA/OAB/SP, and Family Law by the EPD/SP. He works in private mediation and Ad hoc mediator linked to several Chambers. Mediator and Judicial Conciliator, in Regional Forum–SP. Member of IBDFam. Certified by the IBPC. Instructor and Mediator of the Court of Disciplinary Ethics

TED3 from OABSP. He currently holds the position of Associate Director

on the Board of Directors of Hospital Alvarenga and Board of Nossa Senhora Auxiliadora do Ipiranga Foundation (FUNSAI).