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Ms Dania Shawwa CEDR-accredited, IMI-qualified, Harvard Program on Negotiation

Job title: Mediator
Country: Switzerland

Membership type: Associate membership
Primary branch: Europe
Disciplines: Mediation

Personal bio

Dania is the founder of New Leaf Mediation, based in Zürich, Switzerland. She is accredited by the UK’s Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR) in commercial meditation, and is IMI-qualified. Dania also trained with Harvard Law School’s Program on Negotiation, London School of Mediation, and Consensus International Mediator Campus in Germany. Dania practices civil, commercial, family and workplace mediation. She is able to handle online and in-person cases. In 2020, Dania moved to Zürich, Switzerland, after twenty years in Hong Kong where she raised a family and founded a book publishing company with over forty publications launched. In addition to speaking Arabic, she is now learning German. Dania received her Masters degree in Comparative Literature from Northwestern University in Chicago, and a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Toronto.