About Michele Pekar

ALAIN LEMPEREUR is Alan Slifka Professor and Director of the Conflict Resolution Program, Brandeis University, and Affiliate Faculty of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. He is a crisis mediator and has set up responsible mediation and negotiation programs worldwide for 27 years, including for humanitarian organizations.

JACQUES SALZER is a world expert in mediation, with 35 years of research and experience. He has mediated over 80 conflicts, and co-created mediation programs in universities and institutes on four continents. Most recently, he has been involved in post-war conflicts within communities of Northern Iraq, training facilitators.

AURÉLIEN COLSON is Professor of Political Science at ESSEC Business School and Director of the Institute for Research and Education on Negotiation (Paris, Brussels, Singapore). He has 22 years of experience in conflict resolution for international and European organizations from the public and private sectors.

Michele Pekar is Associate Fellow at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. She has 25 years of experience as a leadership, negotiation and mediation practitioner, senior trainer and coach in over 20 countries. She is executive director of Co-Dev, Inc.

EUGENE B. KOGAN is a negotiation strategist who enables senior executives globally to achieve high-impact outcomes. He teaches at Harvard University's Professional Development Programs and conducts research on crisis leadership at Harvard Business School.