Daniel L. Shapiro, Ph.D. is founder and Director of the Harvard International Negotiation Initiative and Associate Director of the world-renowned Harvard Negotiation Project.  He is Assistant Professor in the department of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School/McLean Hospital, and is on the faculty at Harvard Law School.

Dr. Shapiro’s research focuses on the psychology of conflict.  He has contributed to numerous scholarly and popular publications, and recently co-authored (with Roger Fisher) the bestseller Beyond Reason: Using Emotions as You Negotiate. Dr. Shapiro is now pioneering a new research program on the emotional and identity-based dimensions of regional conflict and terrorism. 

As a speaker, his talks consistently receive the highest praise, from Microsoft, Starbucks, and the World Economic Forum, to parliamentarians and governmental organizations.  And his course at Harvard Law School is consistently among the most highly rated.
Through funding from the Soros Foundation, he developed a conflict management and peer counseling program that now reaches more than one million people across 30 countries.  For this and other work, Dr. Shapiro is the recipient of numerous awards, including the American Psychological Association’s Early Career Award and the prestigious “Peacemaker of the Year” award from the California Mediator’s Association.
Dr. Shapiro has trained everyone from business executives to key negotiators in the Middle East, China, the Former Yugoslavia, and elsewhere.   

He was recently appointed a Young Global Leader 2008 by the World Economic Forum.