Professor Andrew Goodman, a barrister and Master of the Bench of the Inner Temple is the lead trainer for the ADR Group and a Faculty trainer for the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He has mediated hundreds of disputes over the past 35 years and has been designated a leading mediator in the Legal 500 for over 30 years, appearing in its Hall of Fame since its inception.

Andrew specialises in international, cross-border and cross-cultural work and has acted as mediation advocate in commercial claims worth over 1bn euros, and mediated claims of hundreds of millions USD in Europe, South-East Asia and the Gulf. He is happy to co-mediate in complex, multi-party and transnational disputes.

In UK domestic matters Andrew deals with professional indemnity, general contract and commercial, property and development, agricultural, family business and partnership, higher education and civil fraud disputes. He is flexible in approach and can be both directive and ‘light touch’ in style depending upon the needs of the parties and the issue.

Andrew is a well-known thought leader in the field of mediation advocacy, a field which he helped develop and has written many books on the subject including Effective Mediation Advocacy (editions in the UK, Turkey, Nigeria, India and Hong Kong), Advanced Mediation Advocacy and Preparing for Mediation. He has advised the Turkish, Thai, Chinese (PRC), Hong Kong, Nigerian, Indian and Nepali governments and judiciaries on mediation systems and practice. He regularly consults on an in-house basis on conflict avoidance.

Andrew is a Distinguished Fellow of the International Academy of Mediators, a Fellow of the CMC, CIArb, and WMO, and accredited to the International Mediation Institute as both mediator, mediation advocate and serves on its committees. He has been a member of the Bar ADR panel since 1995. He was formerly Director of Mediation Training, RICS DRS 2007-2011 and RICS Faculty trainer 2007-2013 and an ABTA ArbEx panel arbitrator and conciliator. He holds a number of academic posts and is a Director of the College of Mediators.