Eric Blanchot, the Executive Director of Promediation, is a mediator and negotiation expert. His work with Promediation focuses primarily on crisis contexts in Mali and Libya. Since February 2013, he has also been acting as a mediator in Chad on behalf of the CAO, the World Bank’s Office of the Compliance Advisor Ombudsman. Previously, in 2011, he joined the United Nations Mediation Support Unit (Department of Political Affairs, New York) as a mediator, and from July 2012 to May 2014, he served as Sahel Coordinator for the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (HD). Eric has also undertaken assignments for the Crisis Management Initiative (CMI) and the Berghof Foundation. As a senior consultant with the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR, Multilateral Diplomacy Programme), he has conducted negotiation training sessions for diplomats and senior officials in Ethiopia (for UNECA, AU, and OIF), Nairobi (UNEP), New York, Vienna, and Geneva (UN). He has trained diplomats from Kenya, Eritrea, Palestine, and Iraq, as well as foreign ministry officials in Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, and Egypt, through missions led by the École Nationale d’Administration (ENA Paris). Eric Blanchot has also contributed to the ILC (Initiative for Collaborative Leadership) in the Democratic Republic of Congo, facilitating and training in ...