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Hospice Djohoun is the Founder and CEO of Global Negotiation Consultancy, a negotiation skills training and consulting firm based in Geneva, Switzerland. A Harvard trained negotiation trainer, he is a leading authority in the field of principled negotiation. 
 
Dr Djohoun advocates that the Mutual Gains Approach, if taught across the spectrum of the corporate ladder, can yield exponential dividends and accelerate performance at all levels. He promulgates and promotes the art and science of negotiation as a principle-based approach to global interaction. 
 
He demystifies the idea of negotiation by bringing it from the boardroom to the heart of everyday life. He urges corporate leaders to build a negotiation strategy, challenges lawyers to settle most of their litigations out of the courtroom and calls on Governments to not only train officials in the art and science of negotiation, but to also introduce it as a compulsory part of the educational system. 
 
Dr Djohoun has worked for the U.S. Embassy and for the United Nations, where he was Regional Finance Officer for Africa with the World Health Organisation. He covered forty-six countries and controlled an almost billion dollar budget.

He also worked for Engen Petroleum Limited in Cape Town, a subsidiary of PETRONAS, the Malaysian oil company based in Kuala Lumpur. He served as roving Managing Director for troubled affiliated companies and was Director of seven multi-million dollar companies across Africa. He has interacted with a number of senior Government officials in negotiating major pipeline and petroleum depot deals and was also involved in several mergers and acquisitions.

Dr Djohoun holds a PhD in Negotiation Skills. Purposefully his research topic was aimed at testing the corporate world for its readiness to develop a negotiation strategy and infrastructure.