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Certified Mediator
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Current Position & Background
Wolf is a dual qualified lawyer (Canada and England) mediator, arbitrator and dispute board member, who has spent his 30 year career as a senior legal executive with Litton Industries Inc. and Northrop Grumman Corporation dealing with international legal and compliance issues in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. His experience spans: investor-State, aviation/aerospace, the board room, large infrastructure projects, programme development and implementation, joint venture formation, licensing and IP management, corporate structures, international ADR including arbitration, mediation and dispute boards, compliance and governance, export compliance, ethics training and conflict management consulting. He specialises in investor state, aerospace/aviation, technology/IP, energy, maritime and construction/engineering/infrastructure disputes.
Wolf has established his own international consulting firm “Global Resolution Services Limited” aimed at providing solutions for the regulatory, compliance, governance, CSR and conflict risk scenarios faced by companies wishing to engage in the global market. He has also specialised in investor State mediation a field he has been working in for the past decade as a neutral and the past 25 years as a user. He has handled investor state mediations in the Middle East, Europe and Africa involving the extraction industry, technology/telecoms, hospitality/tourism and education.
Wolf was the first Chair of IMI, and has sat on the boards of CEDR, London, the AAA-ICDR in New York, USA and was the Chair of the Management Board of the CIArb. He has been named to the ICSID Conciliation Panel by the President of the World Bank in 2024.
Mediation Experience
Career History:
– Managing Director, Global Resolution Services Limited, 2015–Present
– Assistant General Counsel, Northrop Grumman Corporation, 2000–2015
– European Legal Director, Litton Industries Inc., 1987–2000
– General Counsel, Sperry Marine Limited, 1996–2000
– Litigation Counsel, Smith Lyons, 1985–1987
Teaching & Mentoring
Wolf teaches mediation and mediation advocacy courses for the AAA-ICDR, CEDR and the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He has also taught mediation advocacy courses for NYLS in New York.
Mediation Publications
The Climate Emergency Disputes Crisis Affecting Industry Today” – September 2024 – IBA Business Law International Vol 25 No 3
“The Development of Investor-State Mediation and its Future in Supporting Energy Transition” – 2022
“The Use of Conflict Avoidance Boards in Green Projects: A Conflict Avoidance Blueprint for Global Environmental Sustainability” – October 2021
Investor State Mediation and the Singapore Convention – March 2021
The Time for Investor State Mediation has Come: A Concept Paper – June 2020
GC Insider: Aviation and Aerospace Supply Chains, At the Tipping Point – June 2020
Mediations in an Emergency – GC Magazine, March 2020
Investor-State Dispute Settlement – Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Law Journal, Volume 18/Issue 3, 2018
The Energy Charter Treaty and ADR – ADR & Arbitration Review, Volume 1: Issue 2, April 2016
Enabling Early Settlement in State Investor Arbitration – ICSID Review, June 2014
Law Society Gazette – London as a Seat of Arbitration, April 2015
How Mediation can help Resolve Disputes Before and After Transactional Due Diligence – Corporate Financier, March 2011
Global Law and Business, Legal Risk Management Governance and Compliance Guide
Making Mediation Mainstream – IMI
A Perfect Storm is Gathering – IMI
Affiliations
Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
Fellow CMC
American Arbitration Institution
Institute of Directors, England
Former Chair, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb)
Former Chairman and Director, International Mediation Institute (IMI)
Former Director, American Arbitration Association (AAA/ICDR)
Former Director and Interim Chairman, CEDR
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