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Keith Fitzgerald is the Managing Director of Sea-Change Partners. Keith is also a Senior Fellow at Singapore's S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), where he served as Director of the Asian Programme on Negotiation & Conflict Management (APNCM) from 2002 to 2007. He served as a Visiting Lecturer at the National University of Singapore's Public Policy Programme (from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University) from 1999-2000. Keith was the Special Assistant to the Director of the Harvard Negotiation Project (Professor Roger Fisher, author of the international best-seller, Getting to YES: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In) where he was also an Associate from 1993 to 1999. Since 1992 he has been a Teaching Fellow in Negotiation at Harvard Law School and in 1999 was a Teaching Fellow in International Mediation & Conflict Resolution at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.

He worked with the nonprofit Conflict Management Group, and Conflict Management, Inc., both professional outgrowths of the Harvard Negotiation Project, from 1991 - 1999. Keith has worked as a counter-terrorism analyst in Washington, DC. He is the co-author of Negotiating Hostage Crises with the New Terrorists (Praeger, 2007). He was a member of the International Human Rights Mission to the Former Yugoslavia and worked as a journalist with World Monitor and Monitor News in Boston. He co-wrote and co-produced the documentary, The Face of Human Security for the United Nations in 1994. He was involved in a US - Soviet student diplomacy program from 1985-1986. He serves as one of the "Voices from the Field," a round-table advisory group on complex humanitarian emergencies in areas of conflict; a project of the Institute for Global Leadership at Tufts University. He is a Founding Member of the Council for Emerging National Security Affairs (CENSA) based in Washington, DC, and an associate member of the Singapore Institute for International Affairs.

Keith specializes in providing strategic assistance and training to executives and public sector officials in effective negotiation skills, conflict management, crisis leadership, communication, facilitation, and joint decision-making skills and processes. He has worked with several multi-national corporations (including Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, AT&T, Alcatel, DKSH, Goldman Sachs, Merck, Merril Lynch, Bombardier, and Cisco). In the public sector, he has trained several Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Ministries of National Planning, and Ministries of Trade around the world. He has been a trainer and strategic consultant to the United Nations, the World Bank, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), the World Health Organization (WHO), and many international foundations and NGOs. He has been involved in negotiations and conflict management efforts in over 70 countries and territories worldwide; including Northern Ireland, the Middle East, the Balkans, Korea, Canada and the United States, Afghanistan, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, India and Pakistan, Cambodia, Nepal, Bhutan, Singapore, Sri Lanka, East Timor, the Philippines, Sudan, South Africa, and throughout the Former Soviet Union. He has advised governments, families, and security forces on several crisis and hostage negotiations in Latin America, the Former Soviet Union, and Southeast Asia.

Keith has a B.A. from Tufts University, has studied and taught negotiation at Harvard Law School, and holds a Master's degree in Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. He is a former martial arts champion and has been a martial arts instructor for over twenty years.

Keith may be reached at: KFITZ@SEA-CHANGEPARTNERS.COM