Sylvia Skratek has over thirty five years of experience in negotiations and dispute resolution with an emphasis on Labor-Management and Public Policy disputes.

Dr. Skratek is a full time arbitrator and mediator in the United States and Canada. She serves as a permanent member of the dispute resolution panels of several industries including professional and high performance sports, airlines, utilities, healthcare, and communications as well as federal, state and local government, school districts and universities.

Dr. Skratek is vice president of the Mediation Research & Education Project, Inc., a not for profit corporation located in Chicago, which promotes mediation, negotiations training, and development of cooperative labor-management relationships.

As an adjunct professor at several Washington state universities, Dr. Skratek has developed and taught graduate level courses in conflict resolution, contract negotiations and administration, organizational effectiveness and interpersonal relations. She has also served as a guest lecturer at the University of British Columbia and the University of Victoria. She has provided arbitration and mediation training to professional advocates and attorneys, and has conducted cooperative labor relations programs for joint labor/management groups.

Dr. Skratek received her B.S. degree from Wayne State University in 1971, her M.L.S. from Western Michigan University in 1975 and her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1985. Her doctorate areas of emphasis included public sector labor relations. She has had several articles published by such journals as the Labor Law Journal and the Negotiations Journal. She is a member of the National Academy of Arbitrators and the Arbitrators Association of British Columbia.