FREDERICK J. LANCELEY - retired from the Federal Bureau of Investigation after 26 years of government service including four years as an officer in the United States Air Force. During his many years assigned to the FBI Academy, he was the FBI's senior negotiator and principal developer of their internationally acclaimed crisis negotiation training course. He has been involved in several hundred hostage, terrorist, barricade, suicide, aircraft hijacking and kidnapping cases worldwide. In many hundreds of seminars around the world, Mr. Lanceley has trained officers from every major law enforcement agency in the United States and over 50 foreign countries. With the University of Louisville, he also conducted an important research project on aircraft hijacking.

Mr. Lanceley holds a Master of Business Administration from Texas Tech University and a Master of Science in the Administration of Justice from California Lutheran College. He has also attended a wide variety of training sessions over topics related to crisis negotiation.

Mr. Lanceley has been qualified as an expert witness in federal and state courts on the topics of hostage/kidnap negotiation and the victim experience and behavior. He has also consulted in a number of lawsuits that did not require actual testimony. Mr. Lanceley has appeared on several nationally televised programs both in the United States and abroad. He was an adjunct faculty member at the University of Virginia and an adjunct professor at Daytona Beach Community College. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement has certified him as an instructor. He is the author of many articles on crisis negotiation topics and of the internationally, best selling book entitled On-scene Guide for Crisis Negotiators, now in its second edition.

Because of his insights gained from working several hundred sieges and his innovative instructional methods, Mr. Lanceley has been described as possibly the most knowledgable person in the world on the topic of crisis negotiations.

Mr. Lanceley is currently director of Crisis Negotiation Associates in Canton, Georgia. In that capacity, he presents crisis negotiation seminars worldwide.

In selected cases, Mr. Lanceley also provides expert testimony, both in the United States and abroad, on a variety of topics related to crisis negotiation.