Following the listing as the second ad-hoc Mediator in Vietnam by Department of Justice of Ho Chi Minh City in early February 2018, Ms Trinh Nguyen took her mediation skills up the next level and explored the new era of applicability of mediation to settle investment disputes.

In May 8-10, 2018, Ms Trinh joined a selective advanced specialized mediation skills course in Paris held by CEDR in partnership with ICSID, Energy Charter Treaty, UNCITRAL, IMI to learn from the best of the best. The trainers and participants are leading experts, practitioners, visiting lecturers from Oxford & Cambridge, who each brought in average of 30 years experience as arbitrators, mediators of complex and high value commercial and investors-state disputes across Europe Asia and America and Africa. Among the trainers is the renowned Founder President of CEDR – M. Karl Mackie who is the only mediator so far who was given an honour by the state, Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE), for services to mediation, both developing and delivering it.  Mr Karl is probably the best known commercial mediator in the UK.

"The precious takeaway is the feeling of being involved with pioneer spirit to explore how mediation could help investors-states disputes and how it could work alongside with arbitration and other alternative disputes resolution." said Ms Trinh.