Specialist in conflict resolution with broad experience with government, Fortune 500, and nonprofits, including World Bank, United Nations, United States, British Council, and Chevron Corporation. Student-centered professor with multidisciplinary and multilingual expertise in Law, Anthropology, Peace Studies Arbitration, and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR). Author of How to Resolve a Conflict - Winner, Best Alternative Dispute Resolution eBooks of All Time. Effective collaborator, organizer, and manager of multiple priorities; offering excellent communication, good judgment, and a positive attitude. Work Impacted 250 million people, locally and globally, through leadership in the government and private sectors.

Education:
Ph.D.: Legal Anthropology
• Studied Niger Delta International Oil Companies (IOC) funding of communal projects in exchange for peaceful oil exploration;
• Authored "Legal Theft" - the concept of lawmaking causing underdevelopment and conflict;
• Accurately predicted post-2008 nationwide violence.
• Research Fellowship: Harvard University, for the fieldwork on IOC-Community Conflict Resolution

Master of Arts: Coexistence and Conflict
• Studied Peace building including research on Internationally Displaced Persons (IDPs) funded, and published 2006-date, by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Professional Certifications:

Arbitration
Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb)
• Specialized in Domestic and International Arbitration

Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)
Fellow, Institute of Chartered Mediators and Conciliators (FICMC)
• Specialized in Conciliation and Mediation

Call to Bar (JD Equivalent)
Licensed to practice as Attorney-at-Law: passed the following courses:
• Civil Procedure
• Criminal Procedure
• Commercial Law
• Legal Drafting and Conveyance
• Professional Ethics
• Commercial Law
• Jurisprudence
• Private International Law (Conflict of Laws)
• Law of Contract
• Law of Torts
• Land Law
• Constitutional Law
• Criminal Law
• Company Law
• Law of Evidence
• Legal System
• Equity and Trusts.

Selected Publications/Media
https://www.amazon.com/~/e/B0713R3YBS
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtkSf-8tsffgOY5mYeXCFhnmc6Kr0pVqt
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMN9uXECm/?k=1

Skills:
Conflict resolution
Arbitration
Negotiation
Academic research
Classroom management
Online learning tools
Curriculum Development

Languages:
Proficient in English, French, and Yoruba; writing skills in Spanish, German, Portuguese, and Italian

Mediator Yemi (Adeyemi Akisanya) is a CEDR Accredited Mediator, a skilled negotiator, an experienced Dispute Resolution Specialist, and a Conflict Management Expert and Consultant. He is a member of the Standing Conference of Mediation Advocates (SCMA), and an SCMA Certified Mediation Advocacy Trainer. He is also on the Panel of Neutrals of several other ADR Institutions, among which are The Dispute Solutions Hub (“TDSH”), the Lagos Chamber of Commerce International ADR Centre (“LACIAC”), the Lagos Multi Door Courthouse (“LMDC”), and many others.

Mediator Yemi has an out-of-the-box approach to the resolution of disputes and conflicts. “There is no box, period!”, he says. “This has enabled me attain remarkable success as a peace maker, negotiator, and credible bridge builder.”

He speaks often at conferences, seminars, and workshops in the application of ADR, where he always advocates the adoption of Mediation (and the mediatory mindset) as culture at all levels of commerce, business, and personal life and relationships.

Yemi is an Oil and Gas lawyer, with over 40 of years tested experience in domestic and international transactions, projects, and financing, including a vast network in the private and public sectors of the industry. Apart from consulting in transactions in this sector, I am able to bring this experience to advantage, assuring a successful mediation of disputes involving oil and gas transactions, or players.

He is the Managing Director/CEO of TDSH – The Dispute Solutions Hub, an ADR services provider, advisory and consultancy.

TDSH strives to provide excellent, effective, transformative, and integrity-driven solutions, to the highest professional and ethical standards, and in accordance with international best practices.

Shola Oshodi-John is the Chief Executive Officer/Registrar, and member of Faculty of the Nigerian Institute of Chartered Arbitrators, (NICArb) first Arbitration (and ADR) institute in Sub-Saharan Africa. She has extensive experience in training, policy and change management and has served as solicitor and legal adviser to corporate and not for profit organizations. Shola is an advocate for home-grown administration and development of arbitration and Alternative Dispute (ADR) practice in Nigeria (and Africa), Editor of the first and only Journal of Arbitration published by NICArb, a regular speaker at international and national conferences on Arbitration, and Alternative Dispute Resolution. She holds a degree in Law, LLB (Hons) from the Lagos State University, Lagos, BL degree from the Nigerian Law School and a Master's Degree in Public Policy and Management, with a certificate in Non-Profit Management from the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA, Fellow, Nigerian Institute of Chartered Arbitrator, member, Institute of Transnational Arbitration, and Associate of the Institute of Chartered Mediators and Conciliators.

Francis Ohiwere Oleghe is the Senior Counsel at F. O. Oleghe Law Firm in Lagos, Nigeria. He was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1990 received his LL.M. degree from the Lagos State University in 2008, and is currently undergoing a PhD degree at Babcock University, Nigeria, His latest article (co-authored) was indexed by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) in 2023 as relevant to its work. He is actively involved in research in the field of ADR and has authored and co-authored over 30 academic articles published locally and internationally.
Francis has served as arbitrator and counsel in arbitration matters and Company Secretary to several companies in Nigeria. He is currently a Member of UNCITRAL Working Groups II and III. He was an Observer at the just concluded UNCITRAL 56th Commission Session in Vienna, Austria, an accredited Mediator at the Lagos Multi-Door Courthouse, a Member of the Austrian Arbitration Association, and a Fellow of the Nigerian Institute of Chartered Arbitrators.

Osarieme Ezekiel is the Managing Partner at Oakwell Partners, a Commercial and Dispute Resolution Law Firm.
She is a Commercial Lawyer, Corporate Governance Consultant, Debt Recovery Practitioner, Mediator, Dispute Resolution Practitioner, Trainer, Human Capacity Consultant, and Investment Advisor, with over thirty years of experience advising on various commercial public sector, and local and international transactions.
Ms. Ezekiel has held several strategic positions in different sectors of major Financial Institutions in Nigeria, comprising Treasury, Marketing, Credit, Public Sector, Legal, Company Secretarial, Compliance, Administration and Corporate Affairs. At various times during her banking career, she headed Naira Treasury, Legal, Debt Recovery, Administration, and Commercial Banking. She was a Company Secretary/Legal Adviser in two Commercial Banks.
Osarieme obtained a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) degree from the University of Benin in 1984, the LL.B, with honours from Lagos State University in 1989, a Masters in Business Administration (1999) and was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1990.
Osarieme is a passionate advocate of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) and is a CEDR (Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution) UK accredited Mediator. She mediates commercial and civil disputes, with expertise in financial services, construction, power, financial services, family, oil & gas, employment, real estate, telecommunications, and community disputes. She is also certified by the International Mediation Institute (IMI). She is on the panel of Neutrals of the Lagos Multi-door Court House (LMDC), the Enugu State Multi-Door Courthouse (ESMDC), and the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC). Osarieme is a Dispute Resolution Practitioner on the Dispute Resolution Panel of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC).
Ms. Ezekiel is on the training Faculty of the Lagos Multi-Door Court House (LMDC) and the Standing Conference of Mediation Advocates (SCMA) Mediation Advocacy Trainer.
Osarieme is a member of SCMA UK, the Civil Mediation Council, the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators UK, and the Nigeria Chartered Institute of Arbitration.
She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Construction Arbitrators and has arbitrated in privatisation disputes.
Osarieme was a Consultant in the LMDC/British Council UN J4A Project for capacity building and monitoring mediators, to ensure access to justice for indigent people.
She has attended several advanced training programmes in mediation, including the Advanced Mediation Skills Training at the Strauss Institute for Dispute Resolution, Pepperdine University, California.
She is frequently invited to speak on ADR at National Conferences, Workshops, and consults with Organisations, to design as well as put in place a dispute resolution policy. She also facilitates learning for several corporate organisations and professional bodies.
Her firm Oakwell Partners is committed to promoting and using mediation and has organised several mediation Conferences over the years, for this purpose. She is on the Advisory Board of Oakwell Mediation Centre (OMC), one of the finest domestic dispute resolution centres, set up to help people resolve disputes through mediation, using a panel of Neutrals from within Nigeria and other parts of the world.
She is on the Board of Resource Intermediaries Ltd.