Jack R. Williams is the President of the Institute for Global Negotiation, a non-profit association based in Zurich which aims at improving the understanding of the nature and processes of global negotiation among students, academics and practitioners.

Jack is currently a Consultant for the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) where he teaches negotiation and mediation skills to students and diplomats. He is also leading a project to establish a solar PV-system in a refugee camp in Northern Iraq in partnership with United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). In addition, he serves an Adjunct Professor at the American University of Kurdistan where he was previously an Assistant Professor of International Relations and Acting Dean of the College of International Studies.

After completing his bachelor studies at the University of York and masters at the University of Bern, Jack received his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Zurich, during which time he was a visiting researcher at Princeton University. He worked as a Junior Research Fellow at the Institute of European and International Economic Law at the University of Bern, a Summer Academy and MILE Fellow at the World Trade Institute and undertook an internship in international cooperation and sustainable development at the Swiss Federal Institute for Intellectual Property.

Jack is a CEDR Accredited Mediator and is a member of The Negotiation Studio and the Program on International Negotiation Training.