Academic degree: Candidate of Medical Sciences (1990)
Education level: Higher education
Tbilisi State Medical Institute (1986), Moscow City Law Institute (2003)
Name of the field of training and (or) specialty: Medical practice (1986), Law (2003)
Qualification: Doctor (1986), Lawyer (2003)
Professional development and (or) professional retraining:
2016, advanced training courses, ANO “Center for Mediation and Law”, 40 hours, “Features of the use of mediation. Commercial mediation”
Total work experience: 20 years
Work experience in the specialty: 15 years
Professional activity: founder and scientific director of the Scientific and Methodological Center of Mediation and Law; Chairman of the Subcommittee on Alternative Methods of Dispute Resolution and Mediation of the Association of Lawyers of Russia; founder, publisher and editor-in-chief of the only Russian-language specialized journal on mediation and ADR “Mediation and Law. Mediation and reconciliation”; Accredited mediator of CEDR (Center for Effective Dispute Resolution, London, UK), mediator of JAMS-International (USA-UK), regional mediator of the World Bank for Russia, Kazakhstan and Central Asia (2012-2013, World Bank Group Office of Mediation Services), member of the Board of EMNI (European Mediation Network Initiative), Member of the Association for Integrated Mediation, member of the Council of the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine University (Pepperdine University, USA), Associate Member of the Board of GEMME (European Organization of Judges for Mediation), Member of the Board of Directors of AAPMAD (Association of Academics for the Promotion of Mediation as Academic Discipline), member of the International Academy of Mediators (Distinguished Fellow) IAM (USA), which unites outstanding commercial mediators from all over the world, an international mediator in family disputes, including those subject to consideration under the Hague Conventions of 1980 and 1996, a member of the Dispute Board Federation (DBF), a representative of DBF in Russia

Field of scientific interests:

• Mediation in legal practice
• Mediation and relationship psychology
• Mediation and personality formation
• Mediation and social partnership
• Mediation in management and strategic planning
• Philosophy

Taught disciplines:

• Supervision of master’s degree students
• Supervision of the Master’s program “Mediation in the social sphere”

Participation in the editorial boards of scientific journals: Editor-in-chief of the journal “Mediation and Law. Mediation and reconciliation”

Achievements and rewards:
President of the National Organization of Mediators (NOM), Chairman of the Subcommittee on ADR and Mediation of the Russian Bar Association, member of the Government Commission on Minors and Protection of Their Rights, scientific director of the Federal Institute of Mediation, founder of the Scientific and Methodological Center for Mediation and Law, accredited mediator CEDR (Center for Effective Dispute Resolution, London, UK), mediator JAMS-International (USA- UK), member of the Association for Integrated Mediation, member of the Council of the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine University (Pepperdine University, USA

Publications:
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