Ken Hyatt

Ken Hyatt, J.D. is Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Global Restoration Institute. A seasoned leader in conflict resolution and global negotiation and policymaking, Ken co-founded GRI alongside Thomas Hübl to develop a new approach integrating mediation and negotiation with collective trauma healing.

Ken is co-founder of CMPartners, a negotiation and conflict management advisory and training firm, and a Senior Advisor at Albright Stonebridge Group. He is an Adjunct Lecturer on International Dispute Settlement Methods at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, and a member of board and faculty of Negotiation Strategies Institute, a Harvard Negotiation Project-sponsored NGO working with leaders in the Middle East to enhance their capacity for effective negotiation practice and results.

Previously, Ken served as Acting Under Secretary and Deputy Under Secretary for International Trade for the U.S. Department of Commerce. He was a Principal and Partner at Conflict Management Inc., a negotiation training and consulting firm founded by Harvard Law Professor Roger Fisher, co-author of the seminal negotiation work Getting to YES. He was also a management consultant for Bain & Company.

Ken holds a B.A. from Yale College, a J.D. from Harvard Law School, and is a Fulbright/DAAD Scholar.