ALIEVA Fidana

Mediator in labour disputes at the Asian Development Bank, mediator and arbitrator at the International Court of Arbitration in Affiliation with the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Kyrgyz Republic, mediator at the Office of the Compliance Advisor Ombudsman of the World Bank Group, international trainer at the International Mediation Campus (Germany), founder and mediator of the Centre for Mediation and Negotiations (Bishkek).

Formerly: Deputy Chairman of the International Court of Arbitration at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Kyrgyz Republic.

Specialization: commercial disputes, investment disputes, labour disputes.

Languages: English, Russian (A), Kyrgyz, French (B).

Education: higher education, political science and international relations

Mediator training: certificate of the Kazakhstan Mediation Centre dated 13 December 2013 “Basic Mediation Course”; certificate of the Conflict Management International (CMI) (United Kingdom) dated 18 October 2014 “Commercial Mediation”, 13 hours; certificate of Pepperdine University (USA) dated 28 July 2018 “Mediation of Court Disputes”, 42 hours; certificate of Edwards Mediation Academy (USA) January 2019 “Mediator Skills”, 40 hours.

BALYUK Halyna

Arbitrator of the ICAC, Honoured Lawyer of Ukraine, Correspondent Member of the National Academy of Legal Studies of Ukraine, Doctor of Law, Professor, Professor of the Department of Environmental Law of the Faculty of Law of Kyiv Taras Shevchenko National University.
Formerly: Head of the Department, Secretary of the Executive Committee of the District Council of People’s Deputies of Kyiv, Associate Professor of the Department of Commercial Law at Kyiv Taras Shevchenko National University.

Specialization: commercial and civil law, private international law, international commercial arbitration, energy and environmental law.

Languages: Ukrainian (native), Russian (A), German (B).
Education: law degree.

Mediator training: Certificate of the Ukrainian Mediation Centre No. 19060413 dated 26 June 2019. “Basic Mediation Skills”, 60 hours; Certificate of the German -Ukrainian Partnership Project of the CCI KVP Ukraine dated 30 August 2019 “Integration of Mediation into the Practice of Arbitration Courts”.

CHYZHYKOV Gennadiy

Arbitrator of the ICAC, President of the Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Honorary Consul of the Republic of France in Donetsk, Merited Economist of Ukraine, Doctor of Economics.

Formerly: Professor of Donetsk National University of Economics and Trade named after Mykhailo Tugan-Baranovsky, First Vice President, President of Donetsk Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Specialization: economics of trade, foreign economic activity, microeconomics, investment, Ukrainian enterprises’ export activity in the market of EU countries.

Languages: Ukrainian, Russian (native), English, French (A).

Education: degree in economics

Mediator training: Certificate of the Ukrainian Mediation Centre No. 180402015 dated 14 April 2018 “Basic Mediator Skills”, 60 hours.

KOSTINA Olga

Attorney at law, Head of “Pravo Law Firm”, certified mediator, member of the Ukrainian Academy of Mediation.

Formerly: trainer in international projects focusing at the rights to information, alternative dispute resolution, family mediation project coordinator.

Specialization: commercial disputes, labour disputes, media law disputes.

Languages: Ukrainian (native), Russian (A), English (B).

Education: university degree in law, international information and public relations.

Mediator training: certificate of the German Academy of Advocates dated 26 August 2017, certified qualification “Mediator (DAA)” and “Mediation Lawyer (DAA)”, 90 hours; certificate of the Ukrainian Academy of Mediation dated 22 June 2019 “Suggesting Mediation. Overcoming resistance”; certificate of the NGO “Institute for Peace and Understanding” No. 137/19 dated 17 October 2019 “Improving the professional skills of reconciliation program facilitators”, 24 hours; certificate of the Steinbeis Consulting Centre for Business Mediation dated 29 June 2022 on participation in the 8th International Leipzig Mediation Forum, 8 hours.

KOSTYSHYNA Olga

Advisor to the President of the ICAC.

Formerly: Director of the Department of State Representation in International and Foreign Courts of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine.

Specialization: international trade, foreign investment, energy and natural resources, public procurement, private international law, public international law, commercial law, international commercial and investment arbitration.

Languages: Ukrainian (native), Russian, English (A), French (B).

Education: law degree.

Mediator training: certificate of the Ukrainian Mediation Centre No. 19060416 dated 26 June 2019 “Basic Mediation Skills”, 60 hours; certificate of the German-Ukrainian Partnership Project of the CCI KVP Ukraine dated 30 August 2019 “Integration of Mediation into the Practice of Arbitration Courts”.

KRUPKO Petro

Arbitrator and member of the Presidium of the ICAC, Vice President of the UMAC, Honoured Lawyer of Ukraine.

Formerly: Minister of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, First Deputy Minister of Justice of Ukraine, Member of Parliament of Ukraine of the VI-th convocation.

Specialization: private international law, international commercial arbitration, civil law, real estate, commercial law.

Languages: Ukrainian (native), Russian (A), French (B).

Education: Law degree.

Mediator training: certificate of the Ukrainian Mediation Centre No. 19120122 dated 18 December 2019 “Basic Mediator Skills”, 60 hours; certificate of the German-Ukrainian Partnership Project of the CCI KVP Ukraine dated 30 August 2019 “Integration of Mediation into the Practice of Arbitration Courts”.

LYTVYNENKO Zoya

Secretary General of the ICAC.

Formerly: Deputy Secretary General of the ICAC.

Specialization: international trade, international commercial arbitration, private international law, commercial law.

Languages: Ukrainian (native), Russian (A).

Education: law degree.

Mediator training: certificate of the Ukrainian Mediation Centre No. 19060415 dated 26 June 2019 “Basic Mediator Skills”, 60 hours; certificate of the German-Ukrainian Partnership Project of the CCI KVP Ukraine dated 30 August 2019 “Integration of Mediation into the Practice of Arbitration Courts”.

MAKHMUDOVA Alida

Arbitrator of the ICAC, certified mediator, member of the Qualification Commission of the Mediation Council of Azerbaijan, trainer of the course on basic mediator skills of the Academy of Justice under the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Azerbaijan, founder and director of Bona Mente Law Firm.

Specialization: international law, international commercial law, commercial law, administrative law, transport law, agrarian law; commercial and labour disputes.

Languages: Azerbaijani (native), Russian, English, Turkish (A).

Education: law degree

Mediator training: certificate of the Academy of Justice under the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Azerbaijan dated 08 January 2021. “Basic Mediation Skills, 48 hours.

NESTERENKO Alla

Director of the Legal Support Department at the Ukrainian CCI, authorized certifier of force majeure events, a mediator at the Ukrainian CCI, and arbitrator at the Court of Arbitration at the Ukrainian CCI.

Specialization: civil and commercial law.

Languages: Ukrainian, Russian (A), English, German (B).

Education: law degree.

Mediator training: certificate of the Ukrainian Mediation Centre No. 167 dated 30 May 2015 “Basic Mediator Skills”, 48 hours; certificate of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Munich and Upper Bavaria and the Ukrainian Mediation Centre dated 13 September 2015 “Business Mediator of the CCI”, 220 hours.

NOWACZYK Piotr

Arbitrator of the ICAC, certified mediator of the Lewiatan Mediation Centre (Republic of Poland), mediator at the District Court of Warsaw, mediator of the Mediation Centre of the Polish Bar Council, mediator of the Voivodeship Centre for Arbitration and Mediation in Olsztyn (Republic of Poland), certified FIDIC adjudicator, Fellow of Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb) (London), member of the International Association for the Protection of Industrial Property (AIPPI) and the International Trademark Association (INTA), expert of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO).

Formerly: President of the Arbitration Court at the Polish Chamber of Commerce, former partner at Dentons and member of the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris.

Specialization: commercial contracts, FIDIС construction contracts, international sale and distribution, investments, banking, IP/IT.

Languages: Polish (native), English, French, German, Russian (A), Italian (B).

Education: law degree.

Mediator training: certificate of the International Trademark Association (INTA) dated 09 June 2005, certificate of the Lewiatan Mediation Centre (Republic of Poland) dated 11 December 2018 “Mediation of Commercial Disputes”.

PETTIBONE Peter

Arbitrator of the ICAC, independent arbitrator and certified mediator, authorised lawyer/mediator (special master) of the First Department, Appellate Division of the US Supreme Court, corporate governance consultant, Doctor of Law.

Formerly: Partner at the international law firm Hogan Lovells.

Specialization: international commercial arbitration, commercial law, corporate law and corporate disputes, shareholder agreements, construction disputes, securities and finance law, energy-related disputes.

Languages: English (native), Russian (A).

Education: law degree.

Mediator training: certificate of the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (the United Kingdom) dated 24 February 2017 “Mediator skills”.

PRYTYKA Yuriy

Arbitrator of the ICAC, Member of the Presidium of the ICAC, Head of the Department of Civil Procedure of the Educational and Research Institute of Law of the Kyiv Taras Shevchenko National University, Honoured Lawyer of Ukraine, Doctor of Law.

Formerly: Deputy Minister of Justice of Ukraine.

Specialization: civil and commercial law, private international law, international commercial arbitration, international civil procedure and ADR.

Languages: Ukrainian, Russian (native), French (B).Education: law degree.

Mediator training: certificate of the Faculty of Law of the University of Pavia and Almo Collegio Borromeo (Italy) dated 13 May 2019 “Basic Mediator Skills”, certificate of the Ukrainian Mediation Centre No. 19060414 dated 26 June 2019 “Basic Mediator Skills”, 60 hours; certificate of the German-Ukrainian Partnership Project of the CCI KVP Ukraine dated 30 August 2019 “Integration of Mediation into the Practice of Arbitration Courts”.

ROMANADZE Luiza

President of the Ukrainian Academy of Mediation, mediator, attorney-at-law, mediation trainer, co-founder and honorary member of the National Association of Mediators of Ukraine, member of the Supervisory Board of the Association of Family Mediators of Ukraine, member of the Mediation Committee of the Ukrainian National Bar Association, Chairwoman of the Mediation Committee of the Ukrainian Bar Association, Honoured Lawyer of Ukraine, PhD in Law, Associate Professor.

Specialization: intellectual property disputes, urban development disputes, family disputes, corporate disputes, contractual disputes, labor disputes, cross-border commercial and family disputes.

Languages: Ukrainian, Russian, English (A).

Education: law degree.

Mediator training: certificate of the Ukrainian Mediation Centre No. 19 dated 30 May 2010 “Basic Mediator Skills”; certificate of Odesa Regional Mediation Group dated 02 February 2013 “Mediator Skills”, 27 hours and “Basic Mediator Skills: Second Level”, dated 02 April 2013, 16 hours; certificate of the Commercial Law Development Programme of the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Ukrainian Mediation Centre dated 22 May 2014 “Use of alternative means of resolving commercial disputes”; Certificate of the University of Hamburg (Germany) and the Free International University of the Republic of Moldova No. 0223-2014 dated 14 October 2014. “Multi-party mediation”; certificate of the University of Hamburg (Germany), Free International University of the Republic of Moldova and NGO “Interaction” (Tiraspol) dated 14 October 2014. 18 hours of practical training and master classes; certificate of the Canadian-Ukrainian Educational Project for Economic Growth dated 13 November 2014, “Pre-trial Dispute Resolution”; certificate of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) dated 29 May 2016, “Advanced Course on Arbitration and Mediation Procedures in accordance with the WIPO Rules”; certificate of the German Academy of Advocates dated 04 March 2017, confirming the qualification of “Mediator (DAA)” and “Mediator Attorney (DAA)”, 90 hours; certificates of Mediator GmbH (Germany) dated 28 October 2017, advanced training in mediation, 15 hours, and dated 02 November 2019, advanced training for trainers, 30 hours; certificate of INTESA Training Company (Ukraine) No. 2019040302 dated 03 April 2019 “Visualisation of Mediation.

SERGIEVA Svetlana

Head of Sergeyevs’ Law Office Limited, Vice President of the Ukrainian Academy of Mediation, Member of the Board and founder of the Mediation Committee of the Ukrainian Bar Association, Deputy Chairwoman of the Committee on Mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution of the Odesa Regional Bar Council, attorney-at-law, mediator.

Specialization: mediation, arbitration, maritime law, litigation, foreign economic disputes, merchant shipping disputes, corporate disputes, family disputes, contractual disputes.

Languages: Ukrainian, Russian (A), English (B).

Education: law degree.

Mediator training: certificate of the German Academy of Advocates dated 04 March 2017, confirming the qualification of “Mediator (DAA)” and “Mediator Lawyer (DAA)”, 90 hours; certificates of Mediator GmbH (Germany) dated 28 October 2017, advanced training in mediation, 15 hours.; certificate of INTESA Training Company (Ukraine) No. 2019040306 dated 03 April 2019 “Visualisation of Mediation”; certificate of the Ukrainian Academy of Mediation dated 11 February 2020 “The Art of Good Questions in Mediation and Beyond”, 15 hours, certificate of the Steinbeis Consulting Centre for Business Mediation dated 29 June 2022 on participation in the 8th International Leipzig Mediation Forum, 8 hours.

SHAMILOVA Yana

Chief Legal Counsel of Zaporizhzhia CCI, arbitrator of the Arbitration Court at the Ukrainian CCI and the Arbitration Court at Zaporizhzhia CCI, attorney at law.

Specialisation: commercial disputes.

Languages: Ukrainian, Russian (A).

Education: law degree.

Mediator training: certificate of the Ukrainian Mediation Centre No. 175 dated 30 May 2015 “Basic Mediator Skills”, 48 hours; certificate of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Munich and Upper Bavaria and the Ukrainian Mediation Centre dated 13 September 2015 “Business Mediator at the CCI”, 220 hours.

YEMELIANOVA Inna

Arbitrator of the ICAC, Vice President of the ICAC and the UMAC, Honoured Lawyer of Ukraine.

Formerly: Deputy Minister and the First Deputy Minister of Justice of Ukraine, Deputy Chairman of the Ukrainian Union of Lawyers.

Specialization: civil and commercial law, corporate law, private international law, international commercial arbitration, enforcement of court decisions.

Languages: Ukrainian (native), Russian (A), English (B).

Education: law degree.

Mediator training: certificate of the Ukrainian Mediation Centre No. 19060412 dated 26 June 2019 “Basic Mediator Skills”, 60 hours; certificate of the German-Ukrainian Partnership Project of the CCI KVP Ukraine dated 30 August 2019 “Integration of Mediation into the Practice of Arbitration Courts”.

YEROMENKO Galyna

The CEO and a lecturer at the Ukrainian Mediation Centre, Senior Research Fellow at the V.M. Koretsky Institute of State and Law of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, mediator accredited by the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR) (UK) and a member of the international network of mediation trainers (CEDR trainers-network), holder of Prince Yaroslav the Wise Order.

Formerly: First President of the National Association of Mediators of Ukraine, Chairman of the Commission on Mediation and Advisor to the President of the ICC.

Specialization: commercial mediation, organizational mediation; civil liability and compensation for damages caused by public authorities.

Languages: Ukrainian (native), Russian, English (A).

Education: law degree.

Mediator training: certificates of the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR) (UK) dated 01 December 2008 and 03 February 2009, certificate of the JAMS Foundation (USA) dated 12 September 2010, certificate of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Munich and Upper Bavaria dated 12 September 2014, qualification “IHK Business Mediator”, certificate of the Edwards Mediation Academy (USA), October 2019, “Mediator skills”, 40 hours.