About Alexandra Carter
Alexandra Carter is a Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Mediation Clinic at Columbia Law School, where she has spent the last twelve years helping thousands of people improve their negotiation skills. She is a world-renowned negotiation trainer for the United Nations, where she designed a workshop for the first-ever skills-building summit for female diplomats in 2012. Since then, she has taught dozens of negotiation workshops to hundreds of diplomats from more than eighty nations. Carter graduated with honors from Georgetown University, was a Fulbright Scholar in Taiwan, and received her law degree from Columbia Law School. In 2019, Carter was awarded Columbia University’s highest teaching honor. She lives in Maplewood, New Jersey, with her husband and daughter.