Consulting Skills Inventory
Negotiation and Strategy
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Expert Witness, Immigration Appeals Court (New
Jersey), U.S. Department of Justice, 2002–Present.
- Strategized, drafted and edited legal
affidavits in cooperation with immigration attorneys providing expert opinions for
appellants from different Central Asian states.
- Won
an unbroken string of over a dozen favorable rulings with no losses as
reputation has spread entirely by word of mouth.
Member, Executive Board, Central Eurasian
Studies Society, 2002–2005.
- Key
team member guiding organizational takeoff of a new
international interdisciplinary scholarly organization with membership doubling every
year from 2001 to 2005.
- As Member of Publications
Committee, advised on integration of web-based technologies into
organizational development strategy.
Consultant to the Special Assistant to the
President, [a major international oil and gas exploration and development company],
2000–2004.
- Made strategic
business policy recommendations for choices among export pipeline routes from
the Caspian Sea basin to world markets and associated investment
decisions.
- Advised negotiating
strategies based on the foregoing, drawing on specialized knowledge of local
conditions including leadership psychology of national decision makers.
Member, Executive Committee, International
Research Foundation for Development, 2000–2004.
- Advised organizational strategies for
promoting the Foundation's goals.
- Facilitated the creation of supporting
inter-organizational networks.
Consultant, Caucasus Working Group, Centre for
European Policy Studies, 2000–2002.
- Brainstormed ideas for insuring stability, security, and
development in the Caucasus.
- Strategized problems of energy development and pipeline
construction, emphasizing issues of organizational design in critiquing proposed
security architectures.
Consultant to the Special Assistant to the
President, EastWest Institute, 1998–1999.
- Negotiated texts as Rapporteur for the Institute's Second
East-West Leaders’ Forum.
- Strategized
and redacted briefing books for international delegations.
Principal Investigator, Research and Development
Grant, [U.S.] Social Science Research Council, 1994–1996.
- Mediated and coordinated among multiple
individuals with competing bureaucratic interests.
- Iteratively redacted successive drafts of successful grant
proposal on this basis.
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