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Attorney, Richards Butler, Hong Kong:
“All speakers were able to keep the energy level of the group and themselves high throughout the day. That's very important for effective teaching."
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Oxford, always a magnet for researchers and leaders alike, brings together a faculty of negotiation experts from the United States and Europe and an even more diverse group of participants from around the globe. The speakers shown here will examine research-based principles, strategies and methods for developing and implementing successful agreements.
Sherman Roberts, Academic Director
Academic Director of the Oxford Programme on Negotiation and an Associate Fellow of Saïd Business School. Sherman is also Director of Executive Education of the Ivy Faculty Consortium, a network of professors, affiliated with Harvard, Princeton, Dartmouth and other top US universities, which delivers executive education programmes worldwide. Previously, Professor of Behavioural Science at Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas, Venezuela and Deputy Director of the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies in Massachusetts, he was also Director of Executive Seminars at the Kennedy School, Harvard.
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Tim Cullen, Programme Director
Programme Director and an Associate Fellow of Saïd Business School and a Senior Associate Member of St. Antony's College, Oxford. Tim also heads an Oxford consulting firm that works with governments, multilaterals, and businesses on sustainable development, stakeholder engagement and negotiation, and governance. Currently a Commissioner on the Financial Supervision Commission of the Isle of Man, a leading offshore financial centre, from 1978 to 1999, he held senior positions in the World Bank in Washington and Europe, including six years as the Chief Spokesman of the Bank. Prior to joining the World Bank he spent six years with Ford Motor Company in Europe and the United States and three years with Continental Bank in Chicago. He is a Trustee of the Institute of Business Ethics in London and is a visiting lecturer at Örebro University in Sweden and the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad.
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Michael Gates
A Scholar of St. Catherine’s College, Oxford, where he gained an M.A. in English Language and Literature. Michael is Group Managing Director for Richard Lewis Communications, the leading consultancy in cross-cultural communications and also takes an active role as a speaker and trainer.
His clients have included Nokia, Ericsson, Microsoft, Rolls-Royce, Accenture, Bearing Point, Boston Consulting, the World Bank, and the Central Eurasian Leadership Alliance, to name just a few. He has published numerous articles and chapters in books on cross-culture. |
Dr Owen Darbishire
Owen is the Rhodes Trust University Lecturer in Management Studies. His research focuses on labour markets, and how corporations respond to pressures like new technology, increased competition and deregulation.
He teaches on the MBA, EMBA, the Oxford Diploma in Organisational Leadership and the Oxford High Performance Leadership Programme.
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Dr Sue Dopson
Sue is Director of Research Degrees at Saïd Business School and a Rhodes Trust Reader in Organisational Behaviour. She is a consultant on management development to various companies and also teaches on the Oxford Strategic Leadership Programme and the Oxford Diploma in Organisational Leadership..
As a member of the Oxford Health Care Management Institute (OHCMI), she is involved in the development of courses for the NHS. Her research interests include the nature of managerial work, the changing role of the middle manager and career issues for executives.
View her full biography here. |
Richard Latham, QC
One of the UK’s leading barristers, Barrister of the Year in 2004, Richard has appeared for the prosecution or defence in more than 70 murder cases and in numerous serious fraud trials.
He was appointed a recorder (a barrister who also serves as a judge) in 1987, and regularly sits as a judge at the Central Criminal Court. |
Lyse Doucet
Senior Presenter and Special Correspondent, BBC World and Domestic News.
Lyse joined the BBC in 1983 as a correspondent in Côte d’Ivoire, and has reported and/or anchored from West Africa, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, and the Middle East, including playing a leading role in the BBC's coverage of the Arab Spring in 2011.
In addition to employing negotiation strategies to obtain interviews, she has also reported on negotiations aimed at ending conflicts in a number of countries. She is a regular participant in the Oslo Forum for Conflict Mediators. |
Charles Crawford
Former British Ambassador to Poland, Serbia and Montenegro, and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
In his early diplomatic career, Charles served as Speechwriter to the Foreign Secretary, and subsequently contributed to speeches by members of the Royal Family and successive Prime Ministers.
He later played a significant role in promoting reconciliation in post-conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina; in coordinating international support for democratic change in Croatia, Serbia and Kosovo, and in negotiating the 2005 EU Budget deal and 2007 EU Lisbon Treaty. He is currently a well-known commentator on international affairs and a professional mediator. |
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