Dr. Daniel L. Shapiro is founder and director, Harvard International Negotiation Program and associate professor of psychology at Harvard Medical School/McLean Hospital. He serves as deputy director of the Harvard Negotiation Project and affiliate faculty at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. His scholarship centers on the emotional and identity-based dimensions of conflict and negotiation, integrating psychological theory with global field research.

Dr. Shapiro has led successful conflict resolution initiatives across the Middle East, Europe, and East Asia, and chaired the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Conflict Resolution. His international education programs have reached more than one million people over more than thirty countries. At Harvard, he teaches negotiation at Harvard Law School, Harvard Kennedy School, and Harvard Medical School, and previously held faculty appointments at the Fletcher School, Tufts University, and MIT Sloan School of Management.

He is author of Negotiating the Nonnegotiable, which Matthew Bishop of The Economist Group called “quite simply, the best book I have ever read on negotiating in situations of extreme conflict," and is coauthor, with Roger Fisher, of Beyond Reason: Using Emotions as You Negotiate. His extensive publications appears in scholarly journals and popular outlets such as The New York Times, Time Magazine, and The Boston Globe.