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Working Groups
The Organizing Committee of the 7th ICC International Commercial Mediation Competition is assisted by two Working Groups.
1. Competition Rules Working Group
This Working Group is in charge of proposing changes to the format of the Competition and of drafting the new Competition Rules taking into consideration the feedback of previous editions of the Competition. This year’s Working Group is placing a special emphasis on the further development of the role of the mediators in the Competition, as well as on improving the consistency in the judges’ scoring.
2. Competition Problems Working Group
During the ICC International Commercial Mediation Competition students resolve mock commercial disputes (“Problems”) with the help of a mediator. These Problems are drafted by international commercial mediation experts.
Each member drafts a Problem consisting of three parts: general information and confidential information for the Requesting and Responding Party, respectively.
Working Groups members
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Ronald Austin
Ronald is the Senior Advisor to the International Real Estate Group and Moderator of the Global Mediation Group at Clifford Chance where he was a partner for over 35 years. Having commenced his career in London, he has practised in Paris since 1970 having qualified as a solicitor, conseil juridique, conseil juridique et fiscal and avocat.
Ronald is a CEDR Accredited Mediator, a Mediateur Agréé by the CMAP, a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) and a member of the Board of the RICS Paris Dispute Resolution Group. He has practised as a legal adviser at all stages of the cycle in international real estate transactions, acting for English, Japanese, German, French and other investors in landmark transactions. He has advised on French and Belgian investments of various types in Nigeria. He has advised on numerous legal aspects of Formula One Motor Racing. He is developing a mediation culture in Clifford Chance through his creation of the Global Mediation Group of which he is the Moderator. Ronald acts as a mediator in business disputes and lectures on mediation to the Paris Bar School (EFB) and the Institute of Construction (ICH). Ronald has written numerous articles and spoken at numerous conferences on real estate, sports law and mediation. |
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Joy Davies
Joy Davies is a Principal Lecturer in the Professional Division at Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University, England. Joy was admitted as a Solicitor in England and Wales in 1987 and practised commercial litigation in private practice prior to joining Nottingham Law School in 2002. Joy is an accredited mediator with the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and has participated in international conferences on dispute resolution. Joy, who holds a Masters degree in Advanced Litigation and a Masters degree in Education, specialises in Commercial Litigation and Dispute Resolution at the law school. Joy is Course Leader for the LLM in Advanced Litigation and Dispute Resolution, the LLM in Professional Practice and the MBA in Legal Practice. Joy designs, produces and delivers courses to practitioners in law firms and runs the Nottingham Law School Mediation Skills Competition. |
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Rosemary Howell
Dr. Rosemary Howell has experience as a lawyer, strategic planner, teacher and CEO and has served a term as the Secretary General of the Law Council of Australia. She delivers strategic planning, coaching, facilitation, mediation and training services to a diverse range of business and government clients in 6 countries. She currently holds 3 Board positions. She also teaches negotiation and dispute resolution at undergraduate and postgraduate level as a Professorial Visiting Fellow at the University of New South Wales in Australia and leads its Master of Dispute Resolution program which she developed in 2009.
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Lars Kirchoff
Professor Doctor Lars Kirchhoff, practicing mediator and international lawyer, is director of the Institute for Conflict Management and the Master's Program in Mediation at the European University Viadrina as well as partner of the Berlin-based mediation firm TGKS. After graduate studies in Passau, Dublin and Berlin, and research positions held at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Prof. Kirchhoff specialized in Alternative Dispute Resolution, International Law and International Commercial Arbitration during his postgraduate studies at Yale Law School and at the U.S. District Court of Northern California. In addition to his practical work as a mediator, Lars Kirchhoff is teaching mediation and ADR skills at the German Academy of Judges, Bucerius Law School, the United Nations, and the Training Academy for International Diplomats at the German Federal Foreign Office.
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Geoff Sharp
Geoff Sharp is a commercial mediator from Wellington, New Zealand. He has conducted hundreds of mediations over the past decade and runs a busy national mediation practise. In 2008 Geoff was honoured as LEADR’s 3rd Australasian Fellow and the same year was invited to join the Visiting Faculty of California’s Pepperdine University Law School at its Annual Summer Professional Skills Programme for Mediators. Geoff participated in Bond University’s Distinguished Practitioner in Residence program and is a Vice-Chair of the Independent Standards Commission of the International Mediation Institute. In May 2009 Geoff was appointed to the Advisory Board of the Centre for Dispute Resolution, Singapore. As well as being admitted to the Bar in both New Zealand and Australia, Geoff is a nationally accredited mediator in Australia and is a member of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre’s panel of mediators. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the International Academy of Mediators (USA).
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Colin Wall
Colin 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 20 years. He is a current Co-President of the Union Internationale des Avocats, 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. Colin is a member of numerous mediation and arbitration panels and is an Honorary Professor at The University of Hong Kong and a guest lecturer in Arbitration, Mediation and ADR at various undergraduate and postgraduate courses.
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Alan Limbury
Alan Limbury is a Mediator and Arbitrator, holding Masters 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 practised as a litigation lawyer in major Sydney law firms before turning in 1987 to mediation 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. During his membership of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, between 2004 and 2010, Alan 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 also a Director of the Australian Branch and its Vice-President, Mediation. |
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Tracy Allen
Tracy Allen is a full time ADR provider, working worldwide as a mediator, arbitrator and ADR trainer. For more than twenty five years, Ms. Allen practiced law specializing in business, tax, real estate, probate and estate planning. She co-authored and certified the first formal court annexed basic mediation training program for her home state of Michigan in 2001 and is currently an adjunct professor at Pepperdine University Straus Institute for Conflict Resolution and Lipscomb University Institute for Conflict Management. Ms. Allen was trained as a mediator and arbitrator in the 1980’s by various internationally recognized organizations and is an IMI certified mediator. She is a Distinguished Sustaining Fellow and a past president of the International Academy of Mediators. Ms. Allen mediates and arbitrates a variety of national and international commercial matters and has been listed as a provider with the WIPO , CPR and AAA for many years. She continues to advise multiple professional ADR organizations and state agencies on dispute resolution, design, prevention and management. She has authored numerous articles and contributed to several publications on topics relevant to conflict resolution. Ms. Allen maintains her own company in southeast Michigan and is one of the originators and collaborators in developing the ICC Mediation Advocacy Competition. |
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Giovanni de Berti
Giovanni De Berti has been in practice for many years as a lawyer, arbitrator and mediator, is the senior partner of the Milan law firm De Berti Jacchia Franchini Forlani, a member of the Italian Bar and a non-practising barrister of Gray’s Inn. He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a fellow in mediation, and has been a member of the Practice and Standards Committee, a chairman of the Mediation Sub-committee and of the Med-Arb Working Group of the CIArb. Giovanni is an accredited mediator with, inter alia, the Milan Bar Mediation Institution, the Milan Chamber of Arbitration, CEDR, ICDR, the International Mediation Institute and the Italy-China Business Mediation Centre. He has been active as arbitrator, mediator and attorney in institutional and ad hoc arbitration and mediation proceedings and as author, lecturer and trainer on arbitration and ADR.
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Heather Douglas
Heather Douglas - Teaching Fellow in the School of Law at City University of Hong Kong.
Heather is a solicitor admitted in the jurisdictions of England & Wales and Hong Kong but not currently in practise. She is also an accredited mediator with the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre and a member of the Hong Kong Mediation Council. Heather has been involved in dispute resolution for the last 15 years in Australia, England and Hong Kong. She has taught negotiation and mediation to both undergraduate and postgraduate students at CityU and is regularly involved in delivering mediation training in Hong Kong. Heather will leave CityU in July 2011 to focus on her mediation work.
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Thierry Garby
Thierry Garby was an attorney specializing in international business law and in litigation. He published Learn How to Negotiate in 1991 and Conflict Management in 2004.He was trained in mediation with the Brussels and Paris Bar, the WIPO and Harvard. Thierry Garby was the president of the Association Internationale des Jeunes Avocats (AIJA) in 1989. He was the president of the Mediation Commission of the Union Internationale des Avocats. He was the Vice President of the Mediation Commission of the International Bar Association. He created and still co-presides over the World Forum of Mediation Centres. He is a mediator and an arbitrator with most mediation and arbitration centres. He now teaches negotiation and mediation. |
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Richard Lutringer
Richard Lutringer mediates commercial, financial, securities and business disputes, including disputes among partners and shareholders and probate disputes. Mr. Lutringer has served as a judge/mediator at the annual ICC Mediation Competition in 2009 and 2010 and is on the mediation roster of the American Arbitration Association, the Federal District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the New York County Supreme Court, Commercial Division and the New Jersey Superior Courts, board of directors of the Greater NY Chapter of the Association for Conflict Resolution, Chair of the Standards and Ethics Committee of the New York State Dispute Resolution Association, Chair of the Mediation Advisory Committee of the New York County Surrogate’s Court. He has a J.D. with Specialization in International Affairs from Cornell University, a Master of Comparative Law from the University of Chicago and has taken courses in civil law at L.M.U., Munich, Germany.
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Chris Miers
Christopher Miers is a Chartered Architect and Chartered Arbitrator and is Managing Director of Probyn Miers Limited, London, UK. He specialises in Dispute Resolution work in the construction industry in the UK and internationally, where he regularly undertakes appointments as an arbitrator, adjudicator, mediator, dispute board member or expert witness. Christopher is a CEDR accredited mediator and is regularly appointed as mediator in construction disputes. He was a founder member of the Construction Contracts Mediators Group and is a Panel Member of Resolex, UK. He is the author of the guide to Mediation within the UK Architect’s Legal Handbook. He is an international adjudicator on the FIDIC President’s List and is listed on many panels of Arbitrators and Adjudicators. He is the RIBA representative on the Appeals Tribunal for the Construction Industry Council, and an RIBA representative on the Joint Contracts Tribunal in the UK. Christopher has worked on projects in the Caribbean, Costa Rica, France, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Nepal, New Zealand, Portugal, Sudan, UAE, Ukraine and United Kingdom.
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Fabienne van der Vleugel
Fabienne van der VLEUGEL is a lawyer since 1996, member of the Brussels, Meaux (East of Paris) and New York Bars. She is a Graduate of Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium), Erasmus student at University of Seville (Spain), with a LL.M. of Georgetown University Law Center, Washington DC (USA). She began her career with Baker & McKenzie, before joining the corporate department of Landwell (Brussels) and, as manager, the Financial Services Department of Landwell (Paris). She is now the managing partner of her own law firm, VDV AVOCATS, located in Serris (East of Paris, Val d’Europe). The law firm specializes in providing legal assistance to companies, and a strong emphasis is given to Alternative Dispute Resolution. Fabienne is an Accredited Mediator with Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (MCIArb), CMAP, IEAM, BBMC and CMBL. She is a founding member and General Secretary of AMIDIF, a local association of independent mediators of Paris area. She is teaching International Law / European Law at UPEC.Fabienne has authored some articles on topics relevant to company law, commercial law and conflict resolution.
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