Bob Weibel’s Negotiation Masterclass

Executive Director Founder of the Centre for Experiential Negotiation and Applied Diplomacy (CENAD), Brussels, he has focused exclusively on customised executive consultancies & training since 1986 with 2300+ missions covering 5300+ training days for 100+ governments and international organisations involving over 30 000 delegates from over 90% of the world’s countries. Topics have covered “negotiation” per se (international, institutional, political, trade, humanitarian, business, etc.), mediation/conflict resolution, chairing/presidency techniques, diplomacy and crisis management. He is Professor of Practice notably at the Geneva Graduate Institute, the School of International Studies, Vienna and was Visiting Associate Professor at the European Institute of Public Administration (EIPA) from 1994 until 1998.

Internationally there has been close cooperation both at HQ and field levels with major international entities: UN (IOM, UNHCR, ITC, ITU, WHO, WFP, UNCTAD, INC/UNFCCC, INC/D, WMO, UNAIDS, OCHA, UNAMI, ILO, UNSSC, UNSSD), NATO, Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the Council of Europe (Strasbourg), and OSCE. In the humanitarian field, he works closely with Global Fund, GAVI, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Médecins sans frontières (MSF) and is a board member of the Centre of Competence on Humanitarian Negotiation (CCHN). He has engaged intensively in diplomatic training and coaching activities worldwide since 1987, notably for EU and EFTA Member States. Finally, he has led negotiation consultancies for civil society organisations (health, human rights, environment, development cooperation) and major international pharmaceutical, food, engineering, banking and crop science industrial companies.

At an EU level Robert has worked closely with 43 EU Council Presidencies and coached/trained over 120 ministers and state secretaries as well as several thousand chairpersons, heads of delegations and coordinators, most recently for (post-TFEU) Poland, Ireland, Lithuania, Greece, Latvia, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Slovakia, Malta, Bulgaria, Austria, Romania, Finland, Croatia, Portugal, Czech Republic and Sweden. Member state line ministries – including MFA and/or development agencies – call upon his services regularly as do the 3 European Institutions, several EU Agencies. the External Action Service as well as the European Central Bank, EU National Central Banks and European Supervisory Authorities.  He has conducted the European Diplomatic Programme (EDP) negotiation module every year since 2001.