Join Janet Martinez, Stanford Law School Senior Lecturer in Law and Jenik Radon, Adj. Asst. Professor at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, as they discuss energy and international politics and the challenges they pose to negotiators in Georgia.

Jenik Radon is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs since 2002. He is the founder/director of the Eesti and Eurasian Public Service Fellowship, which gives Columbia students the opportunity to intern in Estonia, Georgia and Nepal. At Columbia, Radon also established an ongoing colloquia on Eurasian Oil and Gas Pipelines and hosts regular conferences on Estonia, Georgia and Nepal. From 2000 to 2002, Radon was a lecturer at Stanford University, where he taught human rights and privatization at its law school and international investment management at its Graduate School of Business. Radon was a key foreign advisor and negotiator of the multi-billion dollar oil and gas pipelines from Azerbaijan through Georgia to Turkey (the BTC), featured in the James Bond movie, "The World is Not Enough".

Janet Martinez focuses her research and consulting on the lawyer’s role in negotiation, domestically and internationally; conflict resolution system design; facilitation of public disputes, particularly in the fields of international trade and the environment; negotiation and consensus-building training; and negotiation curriculum development for clients in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. In addition to her role as director of the law school’s Gould Negotiation and Mediation Program, Professor Martinez is a senior consultant at the Consensus Building Institute in Cambridge, Mass., a nonprofit institution whose mission is to improve conflict resolution, and a consultant at Lax Sebenius, a negotiation consulting firm in Concord, Mass. Before joining the Stanford Law School faculty in 2002, she did research, writing, and teaching in various aspects of negotiation at Harvard University’s graduate schools of business, law, and government, and was senior counsel for the McKesson Corporation.