Wilbur Perlot

Wilbur Perlot is Deputy Director at Clingendael Academy where he is responsible for international skills training and training on EU affairs. He has excellent training skills and delivers 40+ negotiation training sessions each year. He has trained senior military staff, diplomats (junior, mid-career and senior), police officers, civil servants and private sector from many different countries.

From 2001 to 2006 Wilbur worked as an oil and geopolitics expert for the Clingendael International Energy Programme (CIEP). Between 2006 and 2010 he worked as the head of the political section of De Balie, a renowned cultural and political centre in the heart of Amsterdam organizing and moderating around 100 evening programmes on international politics.

Wilbur is an instructor in international negotiations in the master International Relations and Diplomacy (MIRD), Leiden University, and in the master Water Conflict Management, UNESCO-IHE. Wilbur is the coordinator of the Processes of International Negotiation (PIN) programme, Clingendael’s international research network on international negotiations.