In 1976 he helped establish the field of Negotiations at
Harvard University with Professor
Roger Fisher (academic), author of
Getting to Yes. Nikos Mourkogiannis developed the curriculum of the first course on negotiations taught at
Harvard University, "Cooping with Conflict", which he taught for 5 years. He was a co-founder of the
Harvard Negotiation Project and conducted seminars about settling several international conflicts, including that of the Middle East. He made important contributions to the work on the
Camp David Accords. In 1981 Nikos Mourkogiannis joined
Westinghouse Electric Corporation, reporting to the President of
Europe,
Africa and
Middle East until 1983, when he moved to
General Dynamics where he became the only non-engineer Director of
F16 Programs. In 2005 he moved to Booz Allen Hamilton as Senior Advisor on Strategic Leadership, and he also founded and became Chairman of PantheaLeadership Advisors, in which
Booz Allen Hamilton was a shareholder. In 2010 he came back to Greece, after receiving an invitation by the former Minister of Culture and Tourism, to undertake the presidency of the Board of the
Greek National Opera, aiming to reorganize its financial situation which threatened the organization's operation. In 2011 he became Director of Strategic Restructuring at
Roland Berger, and in 2012 he was elected member of the board of the
European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA). From 2013 till 2014, he advised the
European Commissioner for Digital Agenda,
Neelie Kroes, on cypersecurity. Since 2016, Nikos Mourkogiannis is Trustee & Member of the Board of the Stelios Philanthropic Foundation. == Authorship career ==