Bruno Verdini Trejo

Dr. Bruno Verdini has designed advanced strategy, in-depth coaching, and tailor-made trainings for stakeholders, cabinet officials, and c-suite executives from across 5 continents and more than 80 countries.

He earned MIT’s first-ever interdepartmental Ph.D. in four distinct fields of expertise, Negotiation, Communication, Diplomacy, and Leadership, via outstanding faculty mentorship from MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT’s Department of Political Science, Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and Harvard Law School.

His research on how to transform high-stakes partnerships between heads of government, corporate leaders, and philanthropical organizations, across emerging and developed economies, published in English and Chinese in collaboration with MIT Press as Winning Together: The Natural Resource Negotiation Playbook, is the recipient of Harvard Law School’s Award for Best Doctoral Research of the Year in Negotiation, Mediation, Competitive Decision-Making, and Conflict Resolution.

Dr. Verdini is the designer and lecturer of MIT’s record-breaking courses on the art and science of persuasion and leadership, ranked in the Top 1% of all annual offerings at MIT for 9 years, recognized with MIT’s D’Arbeloff Prize for Excellence in Education and MIT’s Teaching with Digital Technology Award.

Prior to coming to MIT, without political affiliation, Dr. Verdini became the youngest Deputy Director for International Affairs at Mexico’s National Ministry of Energy, contributing to the strategic planning for the negotiations at the Ministerial Meetings of the International Energy Agency, Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, International Atomic Nuclear Agency, International Energy Forum, International Renewable Energy Agency, World Bank and World Economic Forum.

A Mexican and French citizen, with Indigenous and Italian roots, and a combined heritage hailing from diverse spiritual traditions, he is Executive Director of the MIT-Harvard Mexico Negotiation Program, Associate Director of the MIT Science Impact Collaborative, Lecturer at MIT’s Urban Studies and Planning Department and MIT’s Sloan School of Management Global Programs, and a Visiting Professor at the Asia School of Business.