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Keith Fitzgerald


Keith Fitzgerald is the Managing Director and Director of the Negotiation & Crisis Management Team of Sea-Change Partners, a training and consulting firm based in Singapore specializing in negotiation, conflict management, crisis management, change management, and service delivery in the public sector. Also, Mr. Fitzgerald provides negotiation training and consulting services for Ki ThoughtBridge. He served as a Visiting Lecturer at the National University of Singapore's Public Policy Program (from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University) from 1999-2000. Additionally, Mr. Fitzgerald was the Special Assistant to the Director and an Associate at the Harvard Negotiation Project at Harvard Law School from 1994 to 1999.

Since 1994 he has been a Teaching Fellow in Negotiation at Harvard Law School and in 1999 was a Teaching Fellow in International Mediation & Conflict Resolution at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. He worked with the nonprofit Conflict Management Group, and Conflict Management, Inc., both professional outgrowths of the Harvard Negotiation Project, from 1991 - 1999. Keith has worked as a security policy analyst in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and as a counter-terrorism analyst in Washington, DC.

He was a member of the International Human Rights Mission to the Former Yugoslavia and worked as a journalist with World Monitor and Monitor News in Boston. He wrote and co-produced the documentary, The Face of Human Security for the United Nations in 1994. He has served as an advisor to EPIIC (Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship) at Tufts University since 1988. He is a Founding Member of the Council for Emerging National Security Affairs based in Washington, DC, and is an associate member of the Singapore Institute for International Affairs.

Mr. Fitzgerald specializes in training executives and public sector officials in effective negotiation, crisis management, problem solving, communication, joint decision-making, and teamwork skills. He has delivered training courses for several multi-national corporations (including IBM, Intel, AT&T, Merck, Merrill Lynch, Bombardier, and Cisco). In the public sector, he has trained several Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Ministries of National Planning, and Ministries of Trade around the world. He has been a trainer and consultant to the United Nations, the World Bank, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), the World Health Organization (WHO), and many international foundations and NGOs. He has been involved in negotiations and conflict management efforts in over 45 countries and territories, including Northern Ireland, the Middle East, the Balkans, Korea, Canada and the United States, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, India and Pakistan, Nepal, Singapore, Sri Lanka, East Timor, the Philippines, Sudan, South Africa, and throughout the Former Soviet Union.

Education
B.A. Tufts University
Master's Degree in Public Administration, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

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