JOANNA KALOWSKI MEMBER & ADVANCED TRAINING
Joanna
is an Australian mediator and management consultant with
wide experience in the settlement of commercial, industrial
and environmental disputes, and Native Title land claims.
She has been working with groups as a mediator and
facilitator for over twenty years in sensitive inter-racial
and political settings.
A former Chair of LEADR she is now a member of the WIPO
(Geneva) Panel of Neutrals and of the Centre de Mediation
et d’Arbitrage de Paris, Joanna spent eight years as
a Member of the Federal Administrative Appeals Tribunal and
three on National Native Title Tribunal, where she mediated
land claims between indigenous groups, pastoralists,
representatives of state and Federal government,
environmentalists, industry bodies and utilities companies.
Jo is currently on the board of the Public Interest
Advocacy Centre and the advisory council of the Indigenous
Law Centre of the University of New South Wales, and in
2001 she was Chairman of LEADR, Australia’s largest
non-profit dispute resolution organisation.
Jo is a fluent speaker of French, German and Italian who
writes and lectures widely on mediation and cross-cultural
communication. As a mediator and facilitator, her special
interest is in cross-cultural and public issues matters,
where disparate groups come together to make decisions and
resolve contentious issues through dialogue. She is a
Member of MATA and is faculty on the MATA Advanced Mediator
Training Course.