Rebecca Webber Gaudiosi

Mediator, Negotiator & Researcher
flag-of-United-States-of-America

United States of America

Rebecca Webber Gaudiosi is an engineer, scientist, and former diplomat with expertise in environment and sustainable development policy and multilateral negotiations. She represented the United States at the United Nations from 2006 – 2015 and is the co-author of “Negotiating at the United Nations” (Routledge 2019).
  • As a diplomat, Rebecca was responsible for the U.S. relationship with over 25 multilateral organizations focused on environment, climate change, and sustainable development (among other responsibilities).
  • She has participated in hundreds of multilateral negotiations (plus the internal negotiations to make the policies she represented there).
  • Rebecca has a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering (Polymer Physics). She did her graduate research at Northwestern University, near Chicago, and her postdoctoral research at the ESPCI in Paris.
  • Dr. Gaudiosi received a Masters in Public Policy (MPP) from Princeton University’s School for Public and International Affairs in 2014.
  • She is an IMI qualified mediator through the International Mediator Campus program.
  • Rebecca is passionate about increasing international understanding, one person at a time. She also believes that all policy discussions should be multi-party negotiations, and that the world could do them better: she calls it “problem solving with friends.”
Blog
Posted 10 Aug 2022
I spent close to 10 years negotiating at the United Nations (UN), and I believe that multilateral outcomes—those truly developed inclusive of all the stakeholders—offer the only workable policy solutions to our ever-expanding challenges
Starts 1 Feb 2023
15:00
CET
Online
Led by Dr. Rebecca Webber
Registration is €150
Registration Ended

Negotiation in practice. In this masterclass, you’ll learn from a United Nations negotiator how good solutions can be found even in challenging situations.

Starts 10 Dec 2021
CET
Online
Led by Rebecca Webber Gaudiosi
Registration is Free
Registration Ended
We all negotiate every day of our lives, in attempts to resolve conflicts large and small. This seminar will discuss the power and responsibility of the individual – each individual – in forging a successful negotiated outcome to any conflict. Using five key lessons, Dr. Gaudiosi distills the essence of an effective negotiator and explains how every participant in a negotiation can foster a legitimate process and create good outcomes for all involved.

Featured IM Campus contributors

flag-of-Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan
Fidana Alieva is a mediation and negotiation practitioner in commercial, employment, workplace, family business and other disputes. She has been working as a dispute resolution professional for more than ten years now (since 2012), mediating, negotiating and arbitrating regionally and internationally. As a dispute resolution professional, she participated in over 200 disputes, including quite complex cases with international organizations’ participation, multi-party disputes and online mediation.
flag-of-Israel
Israel
Ran is an Associate Professor of Dispute Resolution (expert track) at the University of Haifa, where he teaches in the International Graduate Program in Peace and Conflict Management Studies.
flag-of-China
China
As an established member of the Chambers of Ronny Wong S. C., Vod K. S. Chan is a barrister, international arbitrator and mediator practising in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HK).
flag-of-Singapore
Singapore
Ye-Min Wu has over 15+ years of experience as a diplomat, having represented Singapore at the United Nations (UN), World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and World Trade Organization (WTO).
Greg was born in the UK and lives and works in Germany. He teaches mediation, negotiation and cross-cultural communication in commercial law, management and MBA programmes at the Technical University of Wildau, Berlin, Germany, where he also coordinates an internal conflict advisory service.