Professor David Venter is born and raised in South Africa. He's cofounder and Director of the Global Negotiation Academy. Professor Ventor has a wealth of local and international experience as both a facilitator of negotiation interventions, and a trainer and advisor of negotiators. He advised govenemental departments such as the police and the department of Justice, trained for 3 years the governement of Nelson Mandela and counted among his private clients BMW and Nissan.
He was a lecturer at the Havard University and the MIT business school. Since 2003 he's operating in Europe as a consultant for Motorola as a negiotator in contracts with governements in Poland, Germany, Portugal and Sweden. He gives trainings to Astra Zeneca and Proctor and Gamble.
Since 4 years he's a guest lecturer at the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School, and nowadays he's a full time professor.

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