Mark Gerzon Email & Phone Number

• As President of Mediators Foundation, which he founded over 25 years ago, Mark has worked closely over the years with several projects that also advance the field of global citizenship. He founded the Conflict.
• Co-designing with private and public sector partners a state-of-the-art decision-making environment called the Global Leadership Lab
• Synthesized the field of mediation and conflict resolution for leaders in Leading Through Conflict: How Successful Leaders Transform Differences Into Opportunities, published by Harvard Business School Press in.
• Founder of Global Leadership Network, a cross-cultural network of experienced leadership trainers and systems change experts
• Advising both Democratic and Republic members of the United States House of Representatives on inter-party conflict issues and designed 1997 and 1999 Bipartisan Congressional Retreats;
• Conducting inter-ethnic leadership training in Kenya for emerging leaders

Singapore, Singapore, SG

As an exective team member for the Bridge Alliance Mark has worked to oversee the incubation of a design team and the first two quarters of the Bridge Alliance activities. Mark is currently coordinating the National Citizens Summit with John Steiner and other key players across the US.

New York, NY, US

• Designed and convened dialogues in Nepal between multiple political parties, including the Maoist factions that have recently joined the government;
• Conducted leadership trainings for the Bureau of Conflict Prevention and Recovery on dialogue strategies for conflict resolutions
• Advised Regional Bureau of Latin America and the Caribbean to develop the practice of dialogo democratico; and facilitating leadership retreats for 26 UNDP Country Representatives.
• Promoted cross-bureau collaboration by researching and documenting conflict resolution strategies used in Africa, Latin America and Asia

• Consulting with major corporations and other public bodies to conduct trainings in leadership, multi-stakeholder problem-solving, and other leadership issues.Provided services to a wide variety of private and public.
• corporations and other private sector organizations (e.g. the Young Presidents’ Organization, Chamber of Commerce, or specific corporations);
• government (state legislatures, Federal Executive Institute, American Association of School Administrators),
• universities (Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University)
• NGO’s (Council for Excellent in Government, National Association of Community Leadership, State of the World Forum, American Jewish Committee, Faith and Politics Institute),
• government agencies (EPA, Federal Executive Institute, Michigan State Department of Education, school districts, state superintendant associations, etc)

New York, NY, US

• Facilitating dialogues between the International Committee off the Chinese Communist Party and the leaders of the Democratic and Republican parties.
• Hosting and network of the world’s leading global policy think-tanks, the Global Leadership Consortium, to develop “Cross-Boundary” leaders that can work together on key global security issues.
• Convening leading grassroots peacemakers from around the world to build a global learning network called the Conflict Transformation Collaborative
• Partnering with the United Nations to initiate a global network of conflict transformation practitioners.
• Working with EWI executive team to develop high-performance organization.

Worked as research associate under the direction of Dr. Kenneth Keniston on this commission based at Yale University. Contributed to a series of reports on the needs of children and families, many of which affected national public policy over the next generation.

Human Development

Bachelor'S Degree, Sociology