Research/Areas of Interest

Negotiations and Conflict Resolution

Education

  • BA, Dartmouth College, Hanover, United States
  • MALD, Tufts University, Medford, United States
  • PhD, Tufts University, Medford, United States

Biography

Elizabeth A. McClintock, Ph.D. is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of International Negotiations at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and Executive Director of the Bridgeway Group. Liz has over 25 years of experience offering consulting services to and designing and implementing negotiation, conflict management, and leadership training programs for both public and private sector organizations around the world.

Liz's work is focused on conflict and post-conflict environments, with both public and private sector organizations. In her work, Liz has advised the US government and various United Nations units, including the Office of the Special Adviser of the Secretary General to Burundi, on preparation for and conduct of negotiation and dialogue processes. Liz has supervised multi-year projects in Burundi, Timor-Leste and Liberia and has served as a consultant to several African governments and international institutions. Liz currently manages a multi-country capacity building program for the World Health Organization, helping member states to manage multisectoral collaboration efforts more effectively to combat antimicrobial resistance. Past work with WHO has resulted in a series of publications, including the book Negotiating Public Health in a Globalized World: Global Health Diplomacy in Action, with co-authors, D. Fairman, D. Chigas, and N. Drager (Springer 2012)

Liz teaches at both The Fletcher School and at Harvard Law School. She has also taught at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Liz earned an A.B. at Dartmouth College and received an MALD and a Ph.D. from the Fletcher School at Tufts University. She is a proud Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (Morocco).