IMI ISC Intercultural Taskforce
Co-Chairs:
Professor Harold (Hal) Abramson (US)
Professor of Law, Touro Law Center, New York
Hal is an experienced trainer, teacher and commercial mediator of cross-cultural disputes, and also author of numerous articles and two books, Mediation Representation – Advocating as a Problem-Solver in Any Country or Culture (2nd edition, NITA 2010, Oxford University Press, to be published in late 2011), and International Conflict Resolution-Consensual ADR Processes (West, 2005, co-author).
Joanna Kalowski (Australia)
Joanna is a mediator, mediation trainer and judicial
educator with a longstanding involvement in cross-cultural aspects of dispute resolution, and has mediated commercial, industrial and academic disputes as well as Aboriginal land claims as a member of Australia's Native Title Tribunal.
Members:
Gigi de Groot (The Netherlands/Sweden)
Managing Director itim international (culture & management consultancy), Stockholm.
As an intercultural management expert, Gigi supports her clients in creating cultural competence and increasing global effectiveness. She has worked with people from over 60 different cultures, both in NGOs and commercial organisations. She is Dutch but lives in Sweden.
Jeremy Lack (Switzerland/U.K/U.S/Israel)
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ADR Neutral and Attorney-at Law with Altenburger Ltd (Geneva, CH), Quadrant Chambers (London; UK), and Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer LLP (New York, USA)
Jeremy handles cross-border commercial disputes involving parties from different countries and cultures, working in common law and civil law systems. He is the Co-Chair of the International Committee of the American Bar Association's Dispute Resolution Section, the Chair of CIArb's Mediation Subcommittee and a member of the Executive Committee of the Swiss Chamber of Commercial Mediation (Suisse Romande).
Professor Joel Lee Tye Beng (Singapore)
Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore
Joel has extensive experience as a teacher and trainer of negotiation and mediation and is a consultant with CMPartners (USA) and a principal mediator with and Training Director for the Singapore Mediation Centre. He is a member of the ADR Advisory Council of the Subordinate Courts of Singapore, the co-editor and co-author of the book "An Asian Perspective on Mediation" (Academy Publishing, Singapore, 2009) and an Associate Editor for the Asian Journal on Mediation.
Professor Ian Macduff (Singapore/New Zealand/Malaysia)
Director, Centre for Dispute Resolution, Singapore Management University.
Ian is an independent mediator and trainer in a number of fields of dispute resolution. He has been consultant and trainer for the World Health Organisation for a capacity building programme in Sri Lanka from 1999 to 2001 and again in 2004. He is co-editor of Ethnic Conflict and Secessionism in South and South East Asia (Sage, 2003); co-author of Dispute Resolution in New Zealand (OUP 1999), and of Guidelines for Family Mediation (Butterworths, 1995).
Hannah F. Tümpel (France/Germany)
Manager, ICC Dispute Resolution Services, Paris
Hannah is a qualified German lawyer and trained mediator. She is in charge of all ADR dispute resolutions services provided by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) including mediation. Further, her department is in charge of hosting and organizing the ICC International Commercial Mediation Competition. She is a regular speaker on mediation at international conferences and teaches mediation and ADR courses in various universities in Europe.