Mark Gerzon is the President of Mediators Foundation and the founder of the Global Leadership Network. Currently working with UNDP on developing a global learning community on dialogue, he facilitated the first two Bipartisan Congressional Retreats and has designed several other dialogues between Republicans and Democrats in the US House and Senate as well as the State of the World Forum Conferences. He also organized one of the first dialogues between the World Economic Forum (Davos) and World Social Forum (Porto Alegre). Among his several published books is the forthcoming Leading Beyond Borders: Tools for Transforming Conflict into Synergy.