Greg Rooney
Greg has been a practising mediator in Australia since 1991. He has mediated more than 1,500 disputes in a diverse range of conflicts including multi-party disputes involving government institutions, commercial and industrial disputes, agricultural disputes, franchise disputes, matrimonial disputes and disputes involving conflict in the workplace.
Greg has been a Director of the Mediator Standards Board that regulates the Australian National Mediation Accreditation Scheme. For the last eleven years he has mediated over 200 face-to-face mediations between religious leaders and individual victims of sexual abuse in the Catholic, Anglican and Protestants religions in Australia as well as abuse within the Australian Defence Forces.
He has lectured in mediation, dispute system design and project Alliancing in a number of Australian universities, including the University of Queensland and Southern Cross University. Greg has conducted dispute resolution training for a number of public and private Australian institutions. He has published papers on a number of mediation based topics in a number of national and international journals copies of which can be downloaded from his web site.
Website: www.gregrooney.com.au
Margaret Ross
Margaret is a barrister and mediator in Australia, where she has been a legal practitioner for 39 years and a mediator for 34 years. She has mediated in excess of 1,000 disputes since 1990. She specialises in Family Law, Mediation and Dispute Management in a wide area of disputes.
Margaret is a Nationally Accredited Mediator and a Registered Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner. She is a member of the National board of AIFLAM (Australian Institute of Family Law Arbitrators and Mediators) and is a member of several Mediation panels, including the Advanced Panel of LEADR Mediators, the Office of the Mediation Adviser, the Law Society and Supreme Court of South Australia Panels, Flinders University and the Catholic and Anglican Churches and the Australian Defence Force.
She has conducted dispute resolution and mediation courses for several Universities and has co-designed and facilitated dispute resolution courses for government and non-government organisations in Australia. Margaret has presented at a number of conferences in relation to mediation and the law, and has published several papers on this area.
Website: www.margaretross.com.au
Sergio Fontana
Greg and Margaret acknowledge Sergio’s facilitative role in helping us create the next chapter of our Tuscany Mediation Retreat in our new venue at Tenuta di Lupinari and with our Humanistic Mediation Retreat at Zivieri in Sasso Marconi, Bologna.
Sergio Fontana is an Italian civil and commercial mediator and former civil lawyer with more than twenty years of legal experience and over a decade of practice in mediation. He is currently the manager of InMedio, Italian Mediation Panel, and Scientific Responsible for “InMedio Formazione” italiana training Company
Sergio has been registered as a mediator since 2010 with the Mediation Body of the Bar Association of Modena and has conducted more than 2,000 mediation procedures involving a broad spectrum of civil and commercial disputes, including contractual matters, real estate rights, lease disputes, inheritance and property divisions.
His mediation practice combines facilitative and negotiation-based approaches and focuses on helping parties move beyond positional bargaining towards constructive and durable solutions.
His articles on mediation and dispute resolution have been published in national and international journals such as Filodiritto, Mediate.com and Mediares.