Adam Dolník (CZE)

Negotiator

Adam is a world-renowned negotiator whose primary job is negotiating for the lives of hostages held by terrorist organizations, criminal groups, pirate gangs, insurgent groups, militias and state actors anywhere in the world. Adam also advises corporations and other clients in complex and coercive negotiations, often in countries and contexts where Western standards and business norms are not respected.

He previously served as the lead expert on kidnap negotiations at the UNCCT - the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Centre in New York, and is the only civilian member of the International Negotiators Working Group (INWG), which brings together representatives of national negotiating teams from around the world.

Adam regularly lectures to negotiating, counter-terrorism, intelligence and diplomatic forces around the world (in over 65 countries to date). His clients include the FBI's Office of Crisis Negotiation, the U.S. Army Special Operations Command, the New York City Police Department (NYPD), and national and police negotiating teams in the UK, Australia, Canada, Israel, Japan, the Netherlands, South Africa, Norway, Chile, Belgium, South Korea, Colombia, Hong Kong, the Philippines, the United Arab Emirates, New Zealand, Turkey, and many others.

Among the special training Adam himself received as a student were the US FBI's negotiation courses at Quantico and the UK's Scotland Yard at Hendon, the UN course on negotiating with kidnappers in Nairobi, and the police course on covert negotiation techniques in Manchester. Adam has also worked as a professor and terrorism researcher at universities in the US, Australia, Singapore and Germany. He has written six books on the subject, and published more than 60 studies and articles.