Global Advisory Council
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| Erica Ariel Fox, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA |
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Erica Ariel Fox, JD, teaches negotiation at Harvard Law School and is the founder of the Global Negotiation Insight Institute. Internationally recognized as a pioneer in integrating great wisdom traditions and spiritual practices into the negotiation and conflict field, she works with business and public sector leaders to build consensus, improve communication, facilitate change, and mediate disputes. In recent years, she has worked extensively with organizational leaders and work teams to address conflict and improve collaboration and performance. Read More
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| Judith W. Gilmore, Chevy Chase, Maryland, USA |
Judith Gilmore is currently a consultant in the area of human trafficking, a child protection mediator for the Washington, D.C. Superior Court, a small claims mediator for the Maryland District Court, and a community mediator for the Conflict Resolution Center of Montgomery County. Prior to retiring from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in 2006, Judith. Gilmore was director of the Office of Private and Voluntary Cooperation - American Schools and Hospitals Abroad. Read More
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| Jamil Mahuad, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA |
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Mr. Mahuad served as President of Ecuador from 1998 until 2000, capping a career of nearly 20 years in Ecuadorian politics, which included two terms as Mayor of Quito and member of the National Congress. He is the co-founder and Senior Adviser of the International Negotiation Initiative, at Harvard Law School. Mr. Mahuad is a recipient of the World Wild Fund Gift to the Earth Award (1999) for his policies on environmental protection and is a Nobel Peace Price Nominee (1999) for the signing of a definitive Peace Treaty with neighbor country Peru. Read More
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| Trevor Maisiri, Harare, Zimbabwe |
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Trevor Maisiri is a researcher, writer and founder and Executive Director of the African Reform Institute (ARI), an organization focusing on training, advocacy, research, publications and policy frameworking in the field of peacebuilding and democracy in Zimbabwe. Mr. Maisiri also works as a part-time teaching assistant at the Africa Leadership and Management Academy (ALMA) in Harare, Zimbabwe. Until 2008 he served as the Executive Director of the Africa Christian Research and Policy Trust. Read More |
| Bernard Mayer, Boulder, Colorado, USA |
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Bernard Mayer, Ph.D., Professor, Werner Institute for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution, Creighton University, is an internationally-recognized leader in the field of conflict resolution. Bernie has facilitated many complex and controversial environmental conflicts, commercial and organizational disputes, interpersonal conflicts, public decision-making processes, and has an extensive background in family mediation as well. Bernie is a founding partner of CDR Associates, a pioneering conflict intervention firm, located in Boulder, Colorado. Read More
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| Ambassador John McDonald, Washington D.C., USA |
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Ambassador John W. McDonald is a lawyer, diplomat,
former international civil servant, development expert and peacebuilder, concerned about world social, economic and ethnic problems. He spent twenty years of his career in Western Europe and the Middle East (Berlin, Frankfurt, Bonn, Paris, Ankara, Tehran, Karachi, and Cairo), and worked for sixteen yearjms on United Nations economic and social affairs. From 1974 to 1978. he was Deputy Director-General of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in Geneva, Switzerland. Read More |
| Julia Roig, Washington D.C., USA |
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Julia Roig is an attorney, skilled mediator, facilitator and trainer with ten years of diverse international management experience. Currently she is the Executive Director at the Partners for Democratic Change, an international organization committed to building sustainable local capacity to advance civil society and a culture of change and conflict management worldwide. From 2006 to 2008, she served as Serbia Country Director for the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative. Read More |
| Raymond Shonholtz, Washington D.C., USA |
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Mr. Shonholtz founded Partners for Democratic Change in 1989, establishing the first of Partners national Centers for Change and Conflict Management. In Fall 2008, Mr. Shonholtz served as a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington, D.C., working on foreign assistance recommendations for the incoming Obama administration. In 1976, Mr. Shonholtz established and served as President of the Community Boards Program. Read More
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| John Sturrock, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK |
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As the founder and CEO of the Core Solutions Group, John has pioneered mediation and high quality training in business, the professions and commerce in Scotland and elsewhere. Described in Legal 500 as "universally regarded as Scotland's finest mediator" and in Band 1 in Best of the UK in Chambers Guide, John has been involved in a broad range of disputes in the public and private sectors in the UK and abroad. He is an internationally recognised coach and facilitator in the fields of negotiation...
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| Lawrence Susskind, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA |
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Professor Susskind is one of the country's most experienced public and environmental dispute mediators and a leading figure in the dispute resolution field. He has mediated more than fifty complex disputes related to the siting of controversial facilities, the setting of public health and safety standards, the formulation and implementation of development plans and projects, and conflicts among racial and ethnic groups -- serving on occasion as a special court-appointed master. Read More
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