Hannah Riley Bowles is an assistant professor of public policy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. She is engaged in research on negotiation and leadership, and is interested in how people negotiate for resources and opportunities to advance into leadership positions and under what conditions gender affects negotiation. Bowles teaches and has conducted case research on leadership in crisis and complex multiparty conflict. Earlier in her career, she worked for Conflict Management Group and the Costa Rican Ministry of Natural Resources, Energy & Mines. She was a fellow at the Argentinean National Institute of Public Administration, the West German Parliament, and Oxford University’s Forestry Institute. She has a D.B.A. from the Harvard Business School, an M.P.P. from the Kennedy School, and an A.B. from Smith College.