Mentorship

ArbitralWomen Mentorship Programme connects experienced practitioners with practitioners seeking guidance and support to advance their careers in international dispute resolution.

Participate as a mentor and/or a mentee, share your experience and learn from other professionals, seek advice from peers and elevate your career to the next level.

In addition to helping to expand the talent pool of potential female general counsel, arbitrators, mediators, experts and lawyers in private practice, the ArbitralWomen Mentorship Programme has many other benefits:

Mentees

• Seek and receive advice and guidance critical to progressing their career in international dispute resolution
• Broaden their knowledge of international dispute resolution
• Enhance and expand their connections with female leaders in international dispute resolution
• Gain knowledge and skills that help them in their daily working life
• Receive tailored insights as to how they can achieve their professional goals

Mentors

• Develop the next generation of female leaders in international dispute resolution
• Improve gender diversity in the future leadership of corporations, law firms and consulting companies
• Enhance and expand their connections to junior female practitioners, arbitrators, mediators and experts
• Develop a larger talent pool of potential female arbitrators, mediators and experts
• Benefit from potential opportunities for reverse mentorship

The ArbitralWomen Mentorship Programme links experienced dispute resolution practitioners (general counsel, lawyers in private practice, mediators, arbitrators and experts) with talented, ambitious women with high potential, enabling the latter to benefit from the advice and experience of the former.

Applicants to the ArbitralWomen Mentorship Programme are matched with a Mentor from their jurisdiction, sector or professional background. When a match is confirmed, the mentoring partners meet regularly (such meetings need not be in person), at a frequency that is convenient for both for one year.

Applications must be made by the advertised deadline. Assignments are generally made by the end of September, effective for a year from the date of assignment. Throughout their mentoring partnership the mentoring partners will review the Mentee’s goals together and the Mentor will provide insights, advice and guidance. The scope of the ArbitralWomen Mentorship Programme and relationship will be forged directly between the Mentor and Mentee, usually based upon the Mentee’s needs and interests. The meetings are confidential.

At the end of each mentoring partnership, the Mentor and Mentee complete programme evaluations. The results of their evaluations are used to improve the programme year after year and increase its effectiveness.