Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr. is an expert on complex negotiation and on the formation and management of strategic alliances and other forms of inter-organizational collaboration. She is also a poet, and a published translator of Persian literature.

In the role of advisor or facilitator she has helped launch, manage, and fix relationships between and among global and domestic corporations, partnerships, professional service firms, non-profit organizations, regulatory agencies, and national and local governments. Much of this work includes intense focus on the intra-organizational dynamics—the internal negotiations—on which external success depends. Illustrative clients have included IBM Global Services, Eastman Kodak, Itochu, Stanford University, the University of Auckland (New Zealand), Ericsson, Fonterra, Commerzbank, DeutcheBank, the State of Florida, Reuters, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and the United States Navy. These engagements involved various types of relationships, and often dealt with an array of issues—finance, operations, technology, the environment, regulatory matters, and relations with local stakeholders.

Ms. Gray has lived and studied extensively in the Middle East and South Asia. Her translations of Iran’s major mystical poet, Hafiz-i Shirazi (d. 1389), The Green Sea of Heaven: Fifty Ghazals from the Diwan-i Hafiz-i Shirazi, were published in 1995 by White Cloud Press in Ashland, Oregon. Ms. Gray has a B. A. with high honors from Radcliffe College, Harvard University and a J. D. with honors from Harvard Law School. In July 2009 she received her M. F. A. from Warren Wilson College’s Program for Writers. She also studied at the University of Aligarh, India; and at both the Imperial Iranian Academy of Philosophy in Tehran and the University of Isfahan, in Iran. www.elizabethtgrayjr.com.

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