Stephen Walker is an independent civil and commercial mediator. He has conducted over 900 mediations. He is ranked in Tier 1 of UK mediators in both Chambers and Partners and in The Legal 500 and also in Who Who’s Legal. Stephen became an accredited specialist online mediator in 2015 and has completed over 280 online mediations. He also undertook specialised training in family and workplace mediation and is dual certified in the USA through INADR. Stephen is a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and the Royal Society of Arts, until 2022 was a visiting lecturer in mediation at King’s College London. He regularly delivers workshops, talks and presentations on mediation. Stephen is the author of five mediation books published by Bloomsbury Professional, including Setting Up in Business as a Mediator and Mediation Behaviour: Why We Act Like We Do.