Associate Professor of Strategy and Organizational Behavior at the Aarhus University, BSS, and has been guest lecturer at the FH Vorarlberg, the Leipzig Graduate School of Management, the Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego in Warsaw, the Goethe Graduate Academy, University of Frankfurt, the University of Business in Wrocław, and the University of Vienna. He is co-founder and scientific advisor of The Negotiation Challenge (TNC) and of the International Negotiation Teaching and Research Association (INTRA). In his research,

Peter focuses on the meaning of cooperation for value creation, intuition and routine in negotiation and the meaning of procedural justice for peace negotiations. Additionally, he is also interested in different aspects of innovation and business model change and the cognitive foundations of action taking.

Peter has published his research in leading international scientific journals including Management Decision, Negotiation Journal, Business Horizons and the International Journal of Human Resource Management.

Dragos-Cristian Vasilescu is a consultant, trainer, lecturer and program coordinator in the fields of negotiation, management and innovation. He is the founder of vasilescu.pro Solutions, a consulting company focused on helping to increase the efficiency of organizations by reducing conflicts and enabling them to create better and more sustainable deals. Additionally, he is the co-founder of the Austrian Association for Negotiation and Conflict Management, a lecturer at Vienna University of Technology for over 10 years, a guest lecturer at Vienna University of Economics and Business and Private University Schloss Seeburg, is the founder of Vienna Negotiation Community, the former academic coordinator for the Business Negotiation Club attached to the UN-YSAA and the program coordinator for the Founders Negotiation Club at i2c Innovation Incubation Center for young entrepreneurs.

An engineer by trade, Dragos-Cristian finished his Master’s in Industrial Engineering and Management at Vienna University of Technology with honors focusing on international negotiations. His passion for negotiation and helping people succeed lead him to train over 1700 individuals and participate in over 800 negotiations on 3 continents in the past 10 years. He is a member of several negotiation organizations such as POINT and INTRA, a judge in international competitions and a reviewer for several negotiation journals.

His current research focus revolves around the strategic use of negotiations, turning points & strategy shifts and how to increase the effectiveness of negotiation training.

Joana has conducted trainings on topics such as negotiation, gender in negotiations, conflict management, and emotional intelligence and has wide international experience. Through her work at Rational Games Inc she has had the opportunity to teach at very prestigious companies and government institutions such as the German Foreign Ministry, Mercator Kollege, University of Zurich, Xing, EU International Communication Union, to name a few.

Beside Mediation and Advanced Negotiations trainings from the Harvard Program on Negotiations she holds an MBA from Reykjavik University, a Master in Humanitarian Action and Conflict from Uppsala University as well as a diploma in Protocol and Diplomacy from the International School of Diplomacy of Brussels. Furthermore, she has specialized in and Humanitarian Negotiations at the Clingendael Institute of International Relations of the Netherlands.

Believing that no matter which part of the world you come from or which industry you are active in, negotiation skills can help you find a solution in any situation, she aims to change the business and diplomatic world for the better by supporting the improvement of the quality of negotiations and communication.

Joana is Portuguese/Icelandic, and she lives in Reykjavik.