Rachel Milner Gillers

Rachel Milner Gillers is a Senior Associate at the Consensus Building Institute, where she is a trainer, mediator and facilitator. Recent projects include assisting with multi-stakeholder process design for the development of global water stewardship standards, and building capacity for an international health organization to negotiate with technical partners and sponsoring organizations. She has trained attorneys, educators, and executives from around the world at the Harvard Negotiation Initiative (HNI) and has created and delivered mediation skills workshops for students, community volunteers, and religious leaders. In partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), she designed a mediation training program to help improve access to justice in rural Cambodia. In the private sector, she has developed negotiation and conflict management tools in industries such as financial services, technology, and reinsurance. While working at the U.S. Embassy in Tunisia, she contributed to public diplomacy efforts at the regional office of the U.S. Department of State’s Middle East Partnership Initiative.

Rachel holds Master’s degrees from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and Harvard Divinity School and a B.A. from Yeshiva University. A native of the Washington, D.C. area, she has lived and worked in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. She speaks proficient Hebrew, conversational German and Spanish, and basic Arabic.