Nuria Gonzalez-Martin has a Ph.D. in Private International Law, Pablo de Olavide University, Seville, Spain. She is a certified mediator in family, civil and commercial law as well as a professor and senior researcher at the Law Research Institute of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). External counselor to Mexico’s Foreign Affairs Ministry. Editor in Chief, “Boletín Mexicano de Derecho Comparado”. Member of International Academy of Comparative Law (IACL), Mexican Academy of Sciences (AMC), General Secretary American Association of Private International Law (ASADIP). Author of 17 books.Winner of UNAM’s 2008 Young Scholar Award, in Social Studies. Visiting Scholar and Fellow, Stanford Law School 2012-2015. In 2015 Professor Gonzalez-Martin was selected as a Weinstein International Fellow JAMS Foundation. As part of her ongoing comparative research in cross-border child abduction and protection issues, Prof. Gonzalez-Martin intends to expand the use of ADR in international family law cases. Upon completion of her fellowship, Ms. Gonzalez-Martin plans to promote conflict resolution by establishing further ADR processes within academic, judicial and governmental sectors in Mexico.