Lawyer/Mediator SVM/BAFM

Born 1963, from Galgenen SZ

Caroline Bono received an honors degree (magna cum laude) from the University of Zurich’s law faculty in 1992. After working for the district court of Zurich she gained professional qualifications as a family mediator in Munich. She won accreditations from the Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft für Familienmediation (BAFM) and from the Schweizerischer Verein für Mediation (SVM). As a member of the SVM’s executive board (1994-1999) she contributed considerably to mediation’s foothold in Switzerland.

She completed numerous other trainings, among them multiparty mediation, "Unbalanced Power" and mediation between parties with a high conflict level. Between 1993 and 2000 Caroline Bono worked as a self-employed mediator in her own private practice. At the same time she received her doctorate with honors (magna cum laude) from the University of Zurich in 1999. The topic of her thesis was family mediation. She then completed economic mediation training in New York und Feusisberg, Switzerland.

Owing to her pioneering efforts in mediation, the University of Zurich and the University of Applied Science of Central Switzerland employed Caroline Bono as an assistant lecturer.

In 2000 Caroline Bono joined a renowned corporate law firm where she worked as a lawyer and headed the mediation team for a few years. At the same time she developed and headed the University of St. Gallen’s economic mediation seminar at the Institut für Rechtswissenschaft und Rechtspraxis IRP (institute of jurisprudence and legal practice). Together with the two Harvard trainers Gary Friedman (CA) und Jack Himmelstein (NY) she trained economic mediators for the first time in Switzerland. In 2005 she opened her own law firm.

Caroline Bono published various articles on family and economic mediation. She executes mandates in German and English.