About Tony O’Gorman

Tony O’Gorman is an international mediator practising in conflict resolution and training in advanced negotiation. He is internationally accredited as a professional mediator through the International Mediation Institute, IMI (based in The Hague) and holds Australian National Accreditation by National Mediator Accreditation System (NMAS) together with being a nationally accredited mediator in Papua New Guinea.

He has undertaken advanced mediation training with the Global Negotiation and Insight Institute (GNII) (formerly of Harvard Law School Program on Negotiation.)

In addition, the former Hostage Negotiation Team of the New York Police Department (NYPD) has trained Tony in hostage negotiation and crisis intervention and maintains current and ongoing accreditation in the United States. He, in partnership with Dominick Missino, conducts critical response negotiation training in the Asia Pacific and most recently has been engaged by the Australian Government to train personnel who are deployed internationally to crisis situations involving Australian citizens.

Tony has wide experience in cross-border, cross-cultural, multi-party and multi-issue disputes. This includes disputes involving hundreds of landowners at local village level with transnational extractive resources companies.

Tony is actively involved in promoting and advancing the efficacy of alternative approaches to dispute resolution, both at a national and international level, and holds positions on a number of International Organisations.  He has mediated disputes in Canada, Ireland, Papua New Guinea, Malaysia and Australia and actively participated in conferences in Australia, the United States, Canada, England, Ireland, Thailand and Malaysia, including the planning and execution of the recent APMF ‘Asia Pacific Mediation Leadership Summit’ in Bangkok, Thailand.

Tony has been engaged by the Australian Government to conduct advanced negotiation training in emergency response engagements.