Organising Committee

Federico Antich graduated at the School of Law, University of Florence, Italy and earned an LLM in U.S. and Global Business Law at Suffolk University Law School, USA, after having completed postgraduate studies at Harvard Law School, UC Davis, UC Berkeley and at King’s College, UK. He practices as an Attorney at Law in Florence since 1997. Since 1999 he also practices as a civil and commercial mediator and is currently accredited by several Organizations including the Center for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR), the International Mediation Institute (IMI) and has been the first Italian to be inducted as a Distinguished Fellow of the International Academy of Mediators (IAM). He currently serves as President of the Italian Delegation of the Mediation Center for Europe, the Mediterranean and the Middle East (CEM) and as Co-Chair of the Mediation Committee of the International Bar Association (IBA). He is also a Member of the American Bar Association (ABA) – International Section, the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (MCIArb) and since 2004 he has been involved in teaching the theory and practice of non-contentious dispute resolution, having also received certification as a trainer of trainers in mediation by CEDR, by Mediation Works Inc. Boston (MWI) and as a trainer in higher education by the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard University.

Martin Hauser is a certified mediator in Germany and France. He leads national and international commercial mediations in English, French, and German. Martin has a legal background in intellectual property, IT, licenses, distribution, competition, complex industrial projects, and international business law. With over 30 years of practice as a business lawyer in commercial litigation, international arbitration, international commercial and investment mediation, and negotiations, Martin works full-time as a commercial mediator on the resolution of complex and emotional legal conflicts. He is accredited with mediation institutions such as ICC Centre for ADR, Paris, CMAP, Paris, WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center, Geneva, EUCON, Munich, VIAC, Vienna, IFCM/IMI, Paris/The Hague, and listed with the Paris Court of Appeals and CNMA, Paris. Martin is Officer of the IBA Mediation Committee Advisory Board and past Co-Chair (2021-2022) of the IBA International Bar Association Mediation Committee. He is a member of the VIAC Board, Vienna. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the IAM, Dallas, and is selected by WWL Who’s Who Legal as Thought Leader Global Elite in Commercial Mediation. Martin is a member of the Munich (Rechtsanwalt) and Paris (avocat honoraire) Bars. He practiced from 1988 to 2019 as a founding partner at BMH AVOCATS, Paris. From 1980 to 1983, he was a research fellow in French intellectual property and competition law with the Max-Planck-Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich. Martin holds degrees of Master of Arts (M.A.) in negotiation and mediation from the European University Viadrina Frankfurt Oder (2015), Master of Comparative Jurisprudence (M.C.J.) from New York University (NYU) (1986), Doctorate in Law (Dr. iur.) from the University of Munich (1983) and law degrees from the Universities of Munich and Freiburg i. Br. (1985, 1979).