Alain Lempereur, PON Executive Committee

• Brandeis University Alan B. Slifka Professor at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management
• Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School Affiliate Faculty and Executive Committee Member
• Harvard Humanitarian Initiative Core Faculty and Negotiation Lead for the UN Global Executive Leadership Initiative

Alain Lempereur promotes his “responsible negotiation” framework worldwide and applies it to leadership, mediation, and humanitarian challenges. He has published a dozen books, including The First Move: A Negotiator’s Companion and Mediation: Negotiation by Other Moves. And contributed to more than 100 articles and book chapters.

After getting a research doctorate in law from Harvard Law School and degrees at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Lempereur spent 25 years consulting and providing executive training for international organizations, national governments, global consulting firms, and corporations in 70 countries. He founded negotiation and leadership initiatives in Africa, the Middle East, and Europe and was the founding director of IRENÉ – a European negotiation institute he led for 15 years at ESSEC Business School.

Guhan Subramanian

Faculty Chair, Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School; Joseph H. Flom Professor of Law and Business, Harvard Law School; H. Douglas Weaver Professor of Business Law, Harvard Business School; Faculty Chair, JD/MBA Program, Harvard University

The first person at Harvard University to hold tenured appointments at Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School, Guhan Subramanian is an educator, dealmaker, and leader. As the Chair of the Program on Negotiation, he spearheads negotiation and mediation training programs for more than 3,000 professionals each year. Subramanian’s research focuses on corporate governance and law, and negotiation. He has authored several world-renowned books including, Dealmaking: The New Strategy of Negotiations.

Gabriella Blum

Rita E. Hauser Professor of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law, Harvard Law School; Vice-Dean for the Graduate Program and International Legal Studies, Harvard Law School

Faculty Director of the Program on International Law and Armed Conflict, Gabriella Blum is widely published in public international law and the law and morality of war. Blum studied law and economics at Tel Aviv University, and joined the Israel Defense Forces, becoming a senior legal advisor. During her service, she worked on the Israeli–Arab peace negotiations, cooperation with foreign forces, and administering to the occupied Palestinian territories. She joined the Israeli National Security Council as a strategy advisor before joining Harvard Law School in 2005.

William L. Ury

Senior Fellow, Harvard Negotiation Project; Co-founder, Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School

William Ury has served as a negotiation adviser and mediator in conflicts ranging from corporate mergers to ethnic wars in the Middle East and is one of the world’s leading experts on negotiation. He is also the author of The Power of a Positive No: Save the Deal, Save the Relationship—and Still Say No and co-author (with Roger Fisher and Bruce Patton) of Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement without Giving In, an eight-million-copy bestseller translated into more than 30 languages.

James Sebenius

Gordon Donaldson Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School; Director, Harvard Negotiation Project

James K. Sebenius specializes in analyzing and advising on complex negotiations. At the Program on Negotiation, he is director of the Harvard Negotiation Project, Co-chair of the Great Negotiator Award Committee, and Co-founder/Director of the Negotiation Roundtable. He also holds the Gordon Donaldson Professorship of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

Max Bazerman

Executive Committee Member, Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School; Jesse Isidor Strauss Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School; Co-director, Center for Public Leadership, Harvard Kennedy School

Max Bazerman is a leader in decision-making, negotiation, and behavioral ethics. He has consulted and lectured in 30 countries, and wrote or collaborated on 20 books, including Negotiation Genius. He has an honorary doctorate from the University of London and an Aspen Lifetime Achievement Award, and is one of Ethisphere’s 100 Most Influential in Business Ethics. Bazerman was named a Daily Kos Hero for revealing how the Bush administration corrupted the RICO tobacco trial.

Daniel L. Shapiro

Associate Professor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School / McLean Hospital; Director, Harvard International Negotiation Program; Associate Director, Harvard Negotiation Project

Professor Shapiro’s research focuses on the emotion and identity in negotiation and conflict resolution. He is author of Negotiating the Nonnegotiable and co-author with Roger Fisher of Beyond Reason: Using Emotions as You Negotiate. He has published extensively and developed innovative psychological models on relational factors driving conflict and its resolution. Professor Shapiro specializes in building theory and testing it in real-world contexts. He launched successful conflict resolution initiatives in the Middle East, Europe, and East Asia and chaired the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Conflict Resolution Administration at Harvard Business School.

Sheila Heen

Thaddeus R. Beal Professor of Practice, Harvard Law School; Deputy Director, Harvard Negotiation Project; Founder, Triad Consulting

Sheila Heen has developed negotiation theory and practice at the Harvard Negotiation Project since 1995. She specializes in difficult negotiations – where emotions run high and relationships are strained. Heen is the co-author of two New York Times bestsellers. She has written for the Harvard Business Review, and for the New York Times as a guest expert and Modern Love columnist. Heen is also a Founder of Triad Consulting Group, a corporate education and consulting firm that serves clients on six continents. Her clients have included Pixar, Hugo Boss, the NBA, and the Federal Reserve Bank.