Roger Fisher
Advisor
Roger Fisher is Founder and Director Emeritus of the Harvard Negotiation Project and the Williston Professor of Law Emeritus at Harvard Law School, where he has taught since 1958.
Professor Fisher has over 30 years' experience dealing with international conflict as an advisor and strategist. He advised both the Iranian and United States governments in negotiations for the release of the American hostages in 1981. He helped design the process for the successful Camp David negotiations between President Sadat of Egypt and Prime Minister Begin of Israel. He met with and advised the presidents of three of the five Central American countries in advance of the 1987 Esquipulas II treaty on a regional peace plan; he was present in Guatemala City during the negotiations at the request of President Cerezo of Guatemala.
As an individual, through consulting firms and with the non-profit Conflict Management Group, Professor Fisher has taught and advised corporate executives, labor leaders, attorneys, diplomats, and military and government officials on settlement and negotiation strategy. In recent years he has conducted negotiation seminars in Bonn, Moscow, Stockholm, Paris, London, Milan, San Salvador, Bogota, Mexico City, and the Republic of South Africa.
He is author or co-author of thirteen books, including Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In. His most recent book, Beyond Reason: Using Emotions as You Negotiate was co-authored by Daniel Shapiro and published in 2005.
