Phil Andrew is the co-founder and principal of PAX Group, a global crisis and conflict management consultancy. He has over 30 years of professional expertise in building great teams, cultures, and strategies that navigate complex and dynamic relationships, projects, and environments.
Phil is an adjunct negotiation instructor in business intelligence, leadership, and ethics at De Paul University Graduate School of Business and Northwestern University Center for Public Safety. He is a negotiation expert for the Schranner Negotiation Institute and serves on the Advisory Board for the National Security & Human Rights Law Center at Kent School of Law. Phil also serves as an instructor at the FBI Academy as an expert in crisis management, negotiation, behavior analysis, and undercover work.
Phil served 21 years as a Special Agent with the FBI throughout the U.S. and overseas, with expertise in violence prevention, counterterrorism, counterintelligence, crisis management, hostage negotiation, crimes against children, undercover work, behavioral analysis, and broad investigative experience. He has led complex investigations and deployed on domestic and international kidnappings and hostage-takings.
Before the FBI, Phil practiced law in Chicago and managed a violence prevention organization. He is a graduate of DePaul University College of Law and the University of Illinois, which he attended as a scholarship athlete.
Specialties: Crisis Management, Conflict De-Escalation, Business Negotiation
