Lawrence Susskind

About the Author

LAWRENCE SUSSKIND is Ford Foundation Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Founder and Chief Knowledge Officer of the Consensus Building Institute. He has served on the faculty at MIT for over 40 years. He is also Vice-Chair of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, which he helped to found in 1982 with Fisher and Ury, and where he co-chairs the MIT-Harvard Public Disputes Program, the Negotiation Pedagogy Project and teaches advanced negotiation courses. He is the author of Good For You, Great For Me. He offers a range of executive training programs every year and has served as a guest lecturer at more than two-dozen universities around the world. Larry is the author or co-author of 16 books, many of which are published in multiple language.