Professor Roberts is the founding Academic Director of the Oxford Negotiation Programme at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. He served as Director of Executive Seminars at Harvard Kennedy School from 1996 to 2003, where his programs attracted over 8,000 participants during his tenure. In 1999, while at Harvard, he founded The Ivy Faculty Consortium, an executive education network comprising faculty from Harvard, Princeton, Chicago, UC Berkeley, and other Ivy League and Ivy Caliber universities, including three Nobel laureates. Prior to Harvard, he was Deputy Director and Director of Executive Education at the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies (1990 to 1996). Since 1980, he has taught executive, graduate, and undergraduate courses on six populated continents. His research interests include negotiation, leadership, and fundamental processes of human performance.