About Mediation: 

• When a dispute or a conflict occurs, mediation offers an instance in which a third party, a mediator, can help reach an agreement. 

• Structured and reassuring process - assisting in finding ideas of solutions or a mutually agreed compromise.

• Mediation can also be a form of law-making process: alternative dispute resolution (ADR), a way of resolving disputes and reaching an agreement with concrete legal effects.

Practice areas:

• Family matters

• Civil and Commercial matters

• Workplace/Labour law disputes

Personnal approach: 

• Structured and pragmatic method enabling parties to identify and define their issues and seek solutions to disputes by understanding the other's perspective, by changing the interactions or the relationship dynamic, by assisting a shift of attitudes.

• Encouraging mutual recognition, acknowledgments; strengthening capacities; enabling proposals and opportunities. 

Languages:

• French

• English

• Dutch

• Spanish

Qualifications:

• Master in Law (ULB, Brussels and UCLouvain, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium)

• LLM/Post-graduate in European Law (King's College London, UK)

• Post-graduate in Mediation: Civil, Commercial, Labour & Family matters (Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium)

Previous professional experiences:

• European Commission, DG Competition

• Law Firm, Associate lawyer

• Consultancy - Public  European Affairs, Consultant

• European Association, Executive Director

• Family Law: University teaching and research assistant at the UCLouvain - Center of family law

Nationalities: Belgian, French and American

Contact details: +32 (0)474 69 73 90