Nadja Alexander is an award winning author and educator, a conflict intervention professional, and an adviser on mediation policy to international bodies and national governments. She is the Academic Director of the Singapore International Dispute Resolution Academy and Visiting Professor of Law at Singapore Management University. Her work has appeared in English, German, French, Arabic, Russian and Chinese languages. Nadja has worked in conflict resolution settings in more than thirty countries across Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas and Oceania. She sits on mediation panels in Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia and is Vice-Chair of the IBA Mediation Committee, on the International Advisory Board of the Vienna International Arbitration Centre and a board member of the Singapore International Mediation Institute. Nadja holds concurrent appointments as Honorary Professor of Law at the University of Queensland, Australia and Senior Fellow of the Dispute Resolution Institute at Mitchell-Hamline School of Law in the United States. She was previously a Humboldt Fellow at the Max Planck Institute in Germany.