Claude Bruderlein

Claude Bruderlein is a researcher and instructor on negotiation in complex and hostile environments as well as the design of communities of practice. He maintains a faculty research and teaching appointment at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and Harvard T. Chan School of Public Health.

He has been Strategic Advisor to the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and lead researcher on ICRC negotiation practices for over 10 years. In October 2016, he founded the Centre of Competence on Humanitarian Negotiation (CCHN) which fostered the creation of the first community of practice of frontline humanitarian negotiators. From 1990 - 1995, he worked in humanitarian assistance and protection with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Iran, Israel and the Occupied Territories, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Yemen as well as in Geneva a legal advisor to ICRC operations. In 1996, he joined the United Nations in New York as Special Advisor on Humanitarian Affairs. He worked particularly on humanitarian access in Afghanistan and North Korea as well as the humanitarian impact of sanctions at the Strategic Planning Unit of the Executive Office of the UN Secretary General. He also served as independent expert on the impact of sanctions for the UN Security Council in the Sudan, Sierra Leone, Burundi and Iraq. In September 2003, he was appointed as a member of the Independent Panel on the Safety and Security of the United Nations Personnel in Iraq.

Mr. Bruderlein is a graduate of McGill University (Canada) in Economics. He was granted a law degree from the University of Geneva (Switzerland) as well as a LL.M. degree from Harvard Law School (USA).