Alexandra Carter

Alexandra Carter is the Everett B. Birch Innovative Teaching Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Mediation Clinic at Columbia Law School, where her work centers on negotiation and dispute resolution. For financial services audiences, that pedigree matters: she trains the discipline that underpins every term sheet, client mandate, and internal deal that moves capital. In 2019 she received the Columbia University Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching, the institution's highest teaching honor, and her first book, Ask for More: Ten Questions to Negotiate Anything (Simon and Schuster, 2020), became an instant Wall Street Journal Business bestseller, the first negotiation book solo-authored by a woman to reach that list.

Her room experience translates directly to banking conferences, wealth-management summits, and CFO retreats. She has delivered negotiation and mediation training for the United Nations across dozens of workshops spanning more than 80 nations, for U.S. courts and federal agencies, and for major corporations including Google, Comcast NBCUniversal, New York Life, Bloomberg, and Viacom. She has also trained leading law firms such as Cravath, Swaine and Moore, A and O Shearman, and Morrison and Foerster. Financial services planners value a speaker who has briefed regulated, high-stakes institutions and can speak credibly to fiduciaries, dealmakers, and front-office teams alike.