mediator

She asked HR to be a mediator between her and the company's founder[4].

The Obama administration did play as a "mediator", but you're right.

The government here is actually nothing but a mediator of funds from taxpayer to researcher, yet it acts as if it paid for the research out of it's own pocket.

In most engineering fields, there is a much tighter synergy between the universities and industry than there is in software, and patents are a key mediator between the two spheres.

I think it's hard to make an argument against this stance, especially if this can be done in a way that doesn't reveal the reviewer's identities to the carpet company--say a neutral third party mediator.

[...] Evidence against catabolism as a mediator of preterminal effects includes a lack of preterminal serum albumin de- cline in PSD rats [22] and the deaths of all rats in two TSD groups protected against catabolic effects, hypothy- roid rats and high-calorie diet rats.

Computer programming is also greatly aided by the existence of machine-checked proofs: the ultimate impartial mediator in any dispute between self-styled experts.

I can understand the police officer acting as a conflict-resolution mediator, but unless the officer passed the bar exam I don't think it's appropriate for him to give what could be misinterpreted as legal advice on civil law.

``Surely an accounting package is trivial next to the complexity of an operating system,'' he said.``Not so,'' said the programmer, ``when designing an accounting package, the programmer operates as a mediator between people having different ideas: how it must operate, how its reports must appear, and how it must conform to the tax laws.