Melanie Billings-Yun, PhD, was founder and senior partner of Global Resolutions, a Singapore-based consulting firm providing negotiation strategies, representation, and training to international businesses and individual clients. Formerly a research director and lecturer on history at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, Dr. Billings-Yun has spent most of the past two decades assisting Western and Asian companies, NGOs, and public agencies in improving their internal and external relationships through negotiation.

Billings-Yun has a PhD from Harvard University, specializing in diplomatic history, an MSc from the London School of Economics, and a BS with high honors from Portland State University. She is the author of Decision Against War (Columbia University Press, 1988), as well as numerous articles on negotiation, mediation, and dispute resolution. She regularly speaks to professional associations and business conferences around the world about negotiation and relationship management.

A native of Portland, Oregon, Billings-Yun has lived and worked in London, Paris, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Seoul, Indonesia, and Singapore. She currently works from Washington, D.C., and teaches at the Master of International Management program at Portland State University.