Wolf Von Kumberg

Through my experience and background I have has covered all facets of dispute management. This has included developing adjudication systems, ADR guidelines, model ADR clauses, ADR policies and procedures, and Global conflict compliance. I have also worked to develop appropriate process design mechanisms for highly complex disputes including state-to-state, investor-state, and commercial matters. I have broad energy dispute resolution experience in both downstream, upstream, and renewable energy such as solar and wind projects, and have been involved in energy exploration and transit disputes. I was Counsel for Western Atlas involved in its oil and gas exploration and drilling activity globally. I have also worked extensively with The Energy Charter Treaty Organisation in relation to energy transit matters and sit on the ECT panel for transit disputes. This experience has shown me how important it is for business to resolve disputes at an early stage to avoid the cost, time and destruction of relationships that litigation often brings with it. Mediation is an excellent tool for this purpose. I have experienced the most intractable disputes being resolved through the assistance of a trained neutral. No dispute is incapable of being transformed through mediation. It is this experience that led me to come onto CEDR Faculty. The opportunity to share my mediation experience and enthusiasm is something I relish. To educate stakeholders who have an interest in learning about the process and how it can be used in their own business and personal environments is what makes Faculty a special place.