Board of Directors

Gail Bingham

Gail Bingham is President of RESOLVE and has been a practicing mediator for over 20 years, specializing in environment, natural resources, and other public policy issues, with a particular focus on water resources.

Ms. Bingham also has written extensively about environmental dispute resolution, and conducts consensus building, negotiation and facilitation skills training programs. She is the author of Resolving Environmental Disputes: A Decade of Experience, a comprehensive, empirical study of the environmental dispute resolution field. She co-authored with Lee Langstaff a chapter entitled "Alternative Dispute Resolution in the NEPA Process," in Environmental Policy and NEPA: Past, Present and Future. edited by Ray Clark and Larry Canter. Recently, she authored a technical report for the Western Water Policy Review Advisory Commission, entitled Seeking Solutions: Alternative Dispute Resolution and Western Water Issues.

Ms. Bingham served two, three-year terms on the national Board of Directors of the Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution and is the former President of its Washington DC Chapter. She has held planning positions in India and in local government in Washington State. She attended Stanford University, graduated from Huxley College of Environmental Studies in Washington State, and did her graduate work in environmental planning at the University of California, Berkeley.