A user should never infer that country relevance alone proves expertise, standing or availability.
GLOBAL NEUTRALS / SEARCH BY JURISDICTION
Search the market. Keep the mandate in view.
Jurisdiction search is useful when a country genuinely affects professional fit. It becomes much stronger when the Neutral function and sector travel with the search instead of being discarded.
Practice should remain visible in the result state.
Sector should refine rather than reset the search.
Cross-border context should survive into results and profiles.
SEARCH STATE SHOULD TRAVEL
The visitor has already told the site something important. Do not make them tell it again.
Jurisdiction, practice, sector and corridor context should remain attached as the user moves from search into results, profiles and request intake.
JURISDICTION FILTER
Combine geography with the professional job.
This interface demonstrates the information hierarchy. Search context should remain shared across the directory rather than fragment into separate, unrelated searches.
BUILD THE FILTER
Jurisdiction plus professional context.
Choose the country and add the role or sector that makes the country relevant.
Choose a jurisdiction and add the professional context you already know.
SEARCH LOGIC
The results should explain why each professional appears.
Exact jurisdiction evidence, corridor evidence and broader practice relevance should never be presented as the same kind of match.
The approved professional record carries the jurisdiction.
The record supports a defined relationship between markets.
Published sector context supports subject fit.
The professional performs the required Neutral function.
Useful options can be shown, but should be labelled honestly.
SEARCH RESULTS NEED EXPLANATION
A good professional card says why the person is here.
The user should be able to distinguish local location, jurisdiction coverage, corridor relevance and wider professional capability at a glance.
SEARCH ACROSS MARKETS
Geography becomes useful when it stays connected to professional evidence.
PROFESSIONAL FIT
The person matters more than the filter once the shortlist is formed.
Do not let a generic mediation connection look like an exact jurisdiction match.
Returning from a profile should restore the same shortlist.
The selected neutral and source filters should not disappear at the final step.
REFINE THE SEARCH
Move sideways without losing what the visitor already knows.
Every discovery dimension should feed the same directory.
DISCOVERY + VERIFICATION
A search match is not a credential status.
Keep discovery, current standing and appointment clearance separate.
Show the exact matching attributes.
Open the complete approved profile.
Use the public Register.
Run matter-specific independence checks.
Confirm role, authority and availability.
PROFESSIONAL DISCOVERY
Jurisdiction should describe the professional connection, not simply display a country name.
A useful country match distinguishes where the professional is based, qualified, experienced and repeatedly active.
LOCATION
Primary professional base
Useful for access, time zone and local familiarity, but not identical to qualification.
QUALIFICATION
Formal professional authority
Relevant where local professional status matters to the mandate and where that evidence is published.
WORK
Actual market experience
Projects, matters, institutions or professional roles can create a real jurisdiction connection.
CORRIDOR
Recurring two-market context
Cross-border experience may be highly relevant without creating domestic expertise in both markets.
LANGUAGE
Working process capability
Language can shape participation and documents, but should remain a separate published field.
PROFESSIONAL DISCOVERY
Country is context. The Neutral role is still the job.
A professional can be highly relevant to a market and still be wrong for the independent function the organisation needs.
DISCOVERY PRINCIPLE
Make geography more precise before it becomes more prominent.
A jurisdiction search should narrow the market context and then reopen the role, sector and evidence questions.
An India-based professional may be relevant to a domestic India matter, an India-UK corridor question or an international project involving Indian parties for very different reasons. The public record should distinguish those connections instead of compressing them into one flag.
A professional based in Switzerland may publish evidence across the United Kingdom, France and the United States. Multi-market context can be useful, but it should not imply identical professional authority in every listed jurisdiction.
Local qualification can matter greatly in some mandates and very little in others. A Neutral Chairing assignment or mediation may require different local credentials from a role that has a formal legal or regulatory effect.
Working experience deserves its own field because a professional can develop deep market understanding through projects, transactions, governance or repeated Neutral work without being resident there.
Sector context can sharpen the search further. A professional with energy experience in a jurisdiction may be more useful to a project question than someone with broader local visibility but no relevant sector evidence.
Language may matter more than location in a remote or cross-border process. Participants and documents should be considered separately from the practitioner's base.
Corridor evidence should also remain separate. A recurring India-Singapore or UK-UAE professional connection describes a relationship between markets, not domestic qualification in both.
Where the public record contains only one type of jurisdiction evidence, the interface should say less rather than infer the rest. Precision is more useful than generous geographic claims.
Jurisdiction pages and professional profiles answer different questions. One explains the market environment; the other explains the professional. The search should link both rather than make either one carry the whole burden.
Current institutional standing remains a separate verification question. A jurisdiction match can explain why a professional appears, but it does not tell the user whether the credential record is current.
The live matter finally determines whether the jurisdiction connection is sufficient. Local law, regulation, public authority, data or participant expectations may create requirements that cannot be resolved by a directory filter.
A jurisdiction search earns trust when it turns geography from a marketing badge into a specific professional evidence question.
PROFESSIONAL DISCOVERY
Current public professional records
Only currently published professional records are shown.
PUBLIC PROFESSIONAL RECORD / Pyrmont, Australia
Steve Lanckens
Arbitrator & Mediator
mediationarbitrationBanking and FinanceInformationCommunications and Technology
Published record: Since 1999 I have specialised in arbitration, mediation and negotiation. In 2011 I engaged in advanced study in Peace and Conflict Studies at Sydney University. Various appointments to arbitral and…
PUBLIC PROFESSIONAL RECORD / Paris, France
Sophie Laurence Vidal
Arbitrator & Mediator
mediationarbitrationBanking and Finance
Published record: In consulting and litigation, I act for SMEs, regarding both individual and collective relations on issues relating to labour law and social security law In consulting: I consider labour law…
PUBLIC PROFESSIONAL RECORD / Duchelsdorf, Germany
Thomas Knaak
Arbitrator & Mediator
mediationarbitrationBanking and FinanceInformationCommunications and Technology
Published record: Positions Since 2015 Member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration, Task force on the Revision of the Rules of ICC as Appointing Authority in UNCITRAL or other ad hoc Arbitration…
PUBLIC PROFESSIONAL RECORD / Munich, Germany
Dr. Tassilo Eichberger
Arbitrator & Mediator
mediationarbitrationReal Estate and Property DisputesConstructionEngineering and Infrastructure Disputes
Published record: For many years, he has advised national and international investors and companies, particularly in transaction management and subsequent portfolio management (legal asset management), but also in the areas of project…
PROFESSIONAL DISCOVERY
A jurisdiction result should narrow the field without creating false authority.
Geography helps users find context. It does not complete the appointment decision.
USE THIS LENS FOR
Relevant market context.
- Location or market connection.
- Published qualification where available.
- Actual professional experience.
- Corridor and sector context.
- A route into the full public profile.
DO NOT READ IT AS
Automatic domestic expertise.
- No inference of qualification from residence.
- No inference of legal authority from nationality.
- No guarantee of sector depth.
- No current conflicts clearance.
- No substitute for local advice where required.
Search state should survive lateral navigation. A user moving from jurisdiction into practice, from corridor into sector or from experience into a profile should not have to reconstruct the same professional question repeatedly. Preserving context is part of reducing friction and preventing different parts of the website from producing inconsistent shortlists.
All discovery routes should resolve to the same canonical public profile and the same verification source. Duplicated biographies, conflicting status labels or different sector vocabularies would weaken confidence even if every individual page looked polished.
As the public record grows, TheNeutrals.ORG should favour evidence quality over result volume. A smaller accurate result set is more useful than a larger one built from inferred or weakly related professional fields.
Search analytics may help the institution understand what users are trying to find, but popularity should never become a hidden professional ranking. Frequently searched names, countries or sectors are evidence of user behaviour, not evidence of professional quality.
Where a result set is thin, the interface should say so and offer adjacent discovery routes. The website should not fill an empty search by silently broadening the meaning of the user's original criteria.
GLOBAL NEUTRALS / SEARCH BY JURISDICTION
A jurisdiction search should narrow the field without narrowing the explanation.
Keep role, sector and corridor visible so the shortlist remains understandable.