Meet Our Team
Project Leaders
Dr Barbara Warwas
Dr Barbara Warwas is a lector in Multilevel Regulation and Director of the Centre of Expertise on Global Governance at The Hague University of Applied Sciences (THUAS). Barbara is the author of The Liability of Arbitral Institutions: Legitimacy Challenges and Functional Responses published by Springer, 2016. In 2014, she worked as a drafter, researcher, and administrator for the ground-breaking study on Legal Instruments and Practices of Arbitration in the EU and Switzerland, commissioned by the European Parliament. Barbara has a PhD in Law from the European University Institute (Florence, Italy). Prior to joining THUAS, Barbara worked as visiting counsel in the litigation department at GE Oil & Gas in Florence and for the Italian law firm Studio Legale Calabresi Guadalupi.
Barbara is the founder and leader of the Trust Mediator project.
Marike H. Hehemann
Marike H. Hehemann is a former solicitor and corporate lawyer. Since 2013, she has been working as a lecturer and coordinator of corporate law at HBO-Rechten at The Hague University of Applied Sciences (THUAS). As of 1 March 2021, Marike has been working for the THUAS Executive Board as a legal advisor. She is also the official secretary of the THUAS Staff Objections Committee. In addition, Marike works as a senior lecturer at the vocational training for company lawyers at the SBB/CPO (University of Nijmegen). As of September 2019, she has been a member of the Multilevel Regulation research group and co-leader of the Trust Mediator project.
Student Project Leaders
The student assistants all work on the student-driven Trust Mediation project in various ways through research, the development of an intercultural mediation roadmap, a citizen science platform and a mediation lab developed through experience in peer mediation. The student assistant team is represented by students of the International and European Law programme at The Hague University of Applied Sciences.
Alexandra van Coppenolle
Alexandra van Coppenolle is half-Palestinian and half-Belgian second-year student in the law programme with a particular interest in courses relating to artificial intelligence law and legal technology in the hope of becoming a medical malpractice lawyer. Alexandra believes that using alternative dispute methods is an effective way to resolve conflict and should be integrated into the curriculum in law schools around the world. She is particularly interested in examining the ways in which culture affects conflict resolution and how mediation can be used as a tool to solve issues relating to cultural differences.
Isabella Murray-Playfair
Isabella Murray-Playfair is studying her first-year of a European Studies with French and has a special interest in sustainable business and intercultural communication. In the three years before starting her European Studies degree, Isabella worked as a nanny and PA. She also built an internationally published blog focusing on her journey through chronic illness and is involved in the Trust MEdiators website design. As trust building has been a key feature of her previous employment, she is keen to gain more knowledge about the intricacies of trust building in an intercultural context.
Lauriane Eudeline
Lauriane Eudeline is a French third-year student in the law programme with an interest in European Union Law and Environmental Law. She first studied economics and languages in France before starting her law degree in The Netherlands. In the second year of her law degree, she took an interest in alternative dispute resolution mechanisms applied to the resolution of environmental disputes and wrote several blogposts on this topic for the Multilevel Regulation Student Projects. Lauriane is particularly interested in the intercultural aspect of the Trust MEdiators project and looks forward to learning more about the intercultural factors involved in trust building.
Ella Riise MacLeod
Ella Riise MacLeod is a Norwegian third-year student in the law programme and takes an interest in courses in Public International Law, Conflict Studies and Human Rights law. Ella is currently chairing as Co-President of The Hague based UN Youth Impact initiative and as an activist, she takes part in and helps host various projects and events relating to issues on human rights, climate change and gender equality. She believes the development and rise of the mediation field is incredibly important for developing efficient and stable ways of resolving conflict in the legal world, both on local as well as global levels.
Advisory Board
Bram Akkermans
Associate Professor in Private Law, Maastricht University
Jeff Dahl
Jeff Dahl, International and European Law Programme, THUAS
Paul Garlick
QC, Alliant Law
Jacco Geschiere
HBO-rechten THUAS
Karen de Jong
HBO-rechten THUAS
Michael McIlwrath
former Baker Hughes
Bianca Oprea
THUAS Alumna
Anita Regout
Randstad-MTC
Emre Sahin
Diversity and Inclusion Task Force, THUAS
Laura Skillen
International Mediation Institute ; Brussels School of International Studies
Tabitha van den Berg
Mediation Amsterdam
Nikki van Dijk
Maastricht Mediation Clinic
Stephen Querido
THUAS Ombudsman