What is your profession and title?

mediator and lawyer

What is your ADR experience? (trainings and education)

Mediator, with a deep practice in the domain of successions, bank, commercial and real estate disputes.

Mediator trainer

Lawyer admitted to Italian bar from 1993 and to plead in front of Italian Court in Italy from 2007.

Ph.D. in European Law

Master on China Law

“Master class Médiation”, BBMC – Brussels Business Mediation Center, Bruxelles 2001.

“Transformative Mediation: core principles and practice“, Ljubljana, November 2011 (lectures by Joseph Folger, Adult and Organizational Development, Temple University, Philadelphia).

“Appling numbers theory to negotiation“, Marrakech, March 2009, Inmedio, Institut für Mediation, Beratung, Entwicklung (Berlin and Offenbach – Main).

“Das herz der business-mediation“, Europa-Universität Viandrina e Inmedio (lectures by Erica Ariel Fox, Harvard University Program on Mediation (PON), Berlin, November 2007.

“Mediation days”, Portoroz, Slovenia, 2007 (sponsored by European Commission).

“Mediation philosophy and practice in the Mediterranean area”, CERIUM (Centro di ricerca per lo sviluppo ed il recupero del potenziale umano), Cagliari, November 2005.

“Workshop for mediators in intellectual property disputes”, WIPO (Word Intellectual Property Organization) – Arbitration and mediation Center, Genève, June 2005.

“Mediation training”, Piedmont Chamber of Commerce, 2005-2009 (several training programs)

Co-founder of:

* Fondazione Aequitas ADR (www.aequitasadr.it), recognized in 2007 as an institute for mediation practice and training by Italian Minister of Justice.
* Accademia di Mediazione (www.accademiadimediazione.it), another training institute whose focus is the developing of “systemic mediation”, an idea that arises from mergering mediation experience and NLP skills.

Author of several books and articles on mediation and on other different subject about European Union law (principally on competition, pharmaceutical, wine and public law) and Italian real estate law.

2012 NLP Master Trainer course attendance (NLP-University, Santa Crux, California, U.S.A.)

Former “pro-bono” lawyer in front of TAS-CAS (Court of Arbitration for Sports) Ad Hoc Panel for 2006 Olympic winter games in Turin.

Recently admitted by CONSOB (the public institution that controls trade exchange in Italy) in its arbitrators and mediators panel.

District manager in Italy for World Mediation Organization

Italian rapresentative at EMNI (European Mediation Network Initiative)

For further information, please see: http://www.appiano.info

What, if any, ADR organizations or groups do you belong to?

World Mediation Organization - District mamager for Italy

What are you hoping to get from ADRhub.com

exchange of ideas, contacts, cooperation, education

Do you/your company have a website?

http://www.aequitasadr.it

What other ADR related sites do you visit?

http://www.word-mediation.org
http://www.virtualmediationlab.com

Are you on Twitter? If provide a link to your Twitter page.

http://twitter.com/E_Mario_Appiano