Bertram I. Spector

Dr. Bertram I. Spector has more than 45 years of experience conducting and directing research, training and technical assistance programs internationally, specializing in the international negotiation and anti-corruption fields. He has written and edited several books and articles on international negotiation, is the Editor-in-Chief of a major academic journal on international negotiation, and directed a worldwide research program on international negotiation processes for three years at an institute in Austria.

For the past 25 years, he has focused on designing, implementing and researching practical programs to fight corruption and strengthen good governance and integrity in developing countries. Dr. Spector directed the Transparency and Accountability Practice Area at Management Systems International (MSI), an international development consulting firm that implements programs for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID). In recent years, he provided day-to-day technical guidance to in-country teams implementing multi-million dollar, multi-year anti-corruption projects in Ukraine, Afghanistan, Indonesia, Mali, Liberia and Mexico. Dr. Spector has authored and edited three books on fighting corruption, several program papers and handbooks currently in use by the US Government, and many scholarly articles in the anti-corruption field.

Dr. Spector is also a specialist on international negotiation processes. He founded and has been the Editor-in-Chief of an international peer-reviewed academic journal, International Negotiation: A Journal of Theory and Practice (Brill Publishers), since its inception in 1996. He also directed the Processes of International Negotiation Project at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria for three years. Dr. Spector has authored and edited several books on international negotiation behaviors.