David Kovick

David Kovick is Senior Associate at the Consensus Building Institute. His work includes conflict assessment and process design, mediation and facilitation of complex public disputes, and negotiation and conflict resolution skills training for public and private partners. Internationally, David has worked with partners in governments, political parties, indigenous communities, multilateral development agencies, and civil society in Asia, Africa, Europe, North America, and the Middle East, to build negotiation capacity and to help resolve disputes over public policy issues, electoral and governance reforms, and international development.

Domestically, David has facilitated local dialogues among public leaders on interethnic community relations and worked with organizations to strengthen decision-making processes. In the private sector, David has trained and coached leaders and teams of Fortune 500 corporate partners domestically and abroad to build organizational negotiation capacity. Prior to joining CBI, David served as Fellow with the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation’s Conflict Resolution Program. Before working at the Foundation, he spent five years in International Political Development with the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI), as Field Representative in Zimbabwe and Southeast Asia.

David is trained as a lawyer, having completed his J.D. at Stanford Law School in 2004. He received his B.A. from Duke University in 1996 with a joint degree in Political Science and African Studies.