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Biography

Mary Walker BA Hons LLB, Barrister, has been an ADR practitioner since 1990. During this period, as a member of an independent Bar, Mary has arbitrated, mediated, negotiated, facilitated multi-party, environmental and community disputes, designed dispute resolution systems and provided expert appraisal/expert determinations and facilitated expert panels and provided ombudsman services in respect to thousands of disputes across jurisdictions referred by solicitors, industry and government bodies and corporations, both domestic and international. Mary was awarded the Inaugural Australian Mediator of the Year Award in 2016 by the Australian Disputes Centre, again awarded Mediator of the Year in 2017 and 2018 and was also awarded International