Biography
Alain LEMPEREUR is the EUI Chair in Leadership and Negotiation at the Florence School of Transnational Governance (STG). His research and executive training foster responsible leadership, negotiation, and mediation.
His applied research appears in multiple languages, and includes a dozen books, such as The First Move. A Negotiator’s Companion; and Mediation: Negotiation by Other Moves.
At EUI, he trains government members, European officials, diplomats, and humanitarians. For the UN Global Executive Leadership Initiative, he runs LEARN, the “Leaders’ Engagement As Responsible Negotiators” hybrid program, which he designed for senior humanitarian leaders and delivers worldwide with his STG team in regional hubs.
Since 1993, he has been associated to the Program on Negotiation (PON) at Harvard Law School, where he is an affiliate faculty and executive committee member and where he designs and teaches executive seminars, such as the “Harvard Mediation Intensive;” “Negotiation Essentials Online;” “Beyond the Back Table;” and “PON Global.” He was an affiliated expert of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and is currently on leave from Brandeis as the Alan B. Slifka Tenured Chair Professor in Conflict Resolution and former director of the Coexistence Program (2011-2021). He volunteers as a board member for the PON-supported Negotiation Strategies Institute (2013-present) for Israeli and Palestinian leaders. He also worked for Forward Thinking in Gaza and the West Bank, and for women leaders through the Karama Network and the EVE leadership program.
Since 1995 in over 75 countries, he has accompanied two hundred organizations, from the public sector – international organizations (EU, ICRC, MSF, OCHA, OECD, UNDP, UNEP, UNITAR, WHO, WWF, etc.), and 26 national governments –, as well as the private sector – global consulting firms (BCG, McKinsey, etc.) or corporations (Airbus, BNY Mellon, EDF, Forvia, LVMH, Sanofi-Pasteur, Vivendi, etc.). With Michele Pekar (Oxford PON), he launched capacity-building organizations, like Co-Dev.
He conceived and developed training programs for the European Commission (2004-2011), Ena (1997-2011), the College of Europe (2016-2020), and Sciences Po Paris (2016-2023). He founded a leading European negotiation institute, “Irene” (1995-2011) and inaugurated the Essec Negotiation and Mediation Professorial Chair.
Partnering with the Wilson International Center for Scholars (Washington, DC), he initiated the “Negotiators of the World” project (2002-2011) to sustain leaders’ post-conflict reconciliation in Burundi and the DR Congo. He also facilitated stakeholders’ meetings for the International Dialogue on Peacebuilding and Statebuilding and supported the UN Mediators' Network.
He was a visiting professor at Harvard University for many years, and taught at the Afghan Institute of Diplomacy, the African Development University, the Algerian Institute of Diplomacy and International Affairs, the Cameroon Institute of International Relations, the College of Europe, the Cyprus International Institute for Management, the Ecole Polytechnique, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, the Lebanese University, Paris Tech, the Paris School of International Affairs - Sciences Po, the UN University for Peace-Costa Rica, and the Universities of Brussels, Corsica, Geneva, Mannheim, Mons, Paris II and V.
Professor Lempereur graduated from Brussels University (M Law ’88, M Phil ’89) and Harvard University (Fulbright Fellow & Frank Boas ’91, LL.M. waived ’93, SJD ’95, PON ’96 and ’97)