Melanie Billings-Yun, Ph.D., founded and was senior partner of Global Resolutions, a consulting firm providing negotiation assistance and expertise to businesses, governments, and individuals around the globe. Formerly a research director and lecturer on history at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, she has spent the past two decades working with leading companies to improve their internal and external relationships through negotiation. She teaches at the Master of International Management program at Portland State University and resides in Washington, D.C.