Thomas GaultierThomas Gaultier is a mediator and international legal consultant specializing in high-stakes conflicts in the extractive and energy sectors. Over fifteen years, he has resolved thousands of grievance claims across Sub-Saharan Africa, Europe, and AsiaThomas bridges corporate imperatives and community needs, drawing on field experience as Community Relations Manager for a lithium mining project in Portugal and as mediator in multi-stakeholder conflicts in Mozambique and Zambia. He developed Social Accord Architecture, a discipline for designing durable agreements between extractive projects and affected communities.He teaches mediation and negotiation at Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Escola do Porto) and co-founded the ICFML, where he serves as Vice-President.Admitted to the New York Bar, he holds an LL.M. in ADR from UT Austin and an MBA in Mining and Raw Materials from EOI in Seville. Fluent in English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish. Read More Read Less