Eric Richardson is a lawyer, a former diplomat and INHR’s Founding President. He is also a China Program Coordinator at PAX sapiens. He served the U.S. Government working in and on China, North Korea, Libya, Tunisia, New Zealand and Israel, and headed the U.S. team at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva from 2013-2016. He draws on his education at Stanford and his work as a regulatory attorney in Washington, D.C. to lead INHR’s artificial intelligence (AI) mediation efforts and teaches law at the University of Michigan and University of California Berkeley Law Schools. Eric published his negotiations handbook, The Art of Getting More Back in Diplomacy, in 2021. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations from Stanford University, a Master’s degree in Law and World Politics from the University of Michigan, and a juris doctorate from the University of Michigan Law School. He speaks Chinese, French and English.