Natalia Mirimanova is a conflict resolution scholar-practitioner and has over twenty five years of mediation, design and facilitation of dialogue processes, research, and advocacy experience in the South Caucasus, Central Asia, Russia, Moldova, Ukraine, Western Balkans, Eastern Europe and Cyprus. Natalia received her Ph.D. from the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University, USA. Natalia served as a consultant for the UN, OSCE, EU, International Alert, Internews, Aga Khan Foundation, Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue and other international, national and local governmental and non-governmental organizations.