The RESOLVE Team

Gail Bingham (President Emeritus, Senior Mediator)

Gail Bingham is President Emeritus of RESOLVE and has been a practicing mediator for 30 years, specializing in environment, natural resources, health and other public policy issues. A nationally recognized pioneer in promoting consensus building tools in public decision making, she has mediated breakthroughs on such challenging public issues as national wetlands policy and drinking water protection, written extensively about environmental dispute resolution, and provided intellectual leadership in the field. She also conducts negotiation skills training programs.

The 2006 recipient of the Association for Conflict Resolution’s Mary Parker Follett Award, Ms. Bingham has served as a mediator for a variety of state and federal agencies and private parties on such diverse subjects as: funding infrastructure costs for water and wastewater utilities, watershed management and Total Maximum Daily Load policy, allocation of water rights, endangered species, drinking water regulations, groundwater protection, wetlands, hydro-electric relicensing, chemicals policy, solid waste source reduction, hazardous waste management, oil spill contingency plans, pesticides policy, children’s health protection, and local community land use and infrastructure issues. She also is the author of several publications, including: Resolving Environmental Disputes: A Decade of Experience; Seeking Solutions: Alternative Dispute Resolution and Western Water Issues; Alternative Dispute Resolution and the NEPA Process; and When the Sparks Fly: Building Consensus When the Science is Contested.

Ms. Bingham recently served on a National Academy of Sciences Panel on Public Participation in Environmental Assessment and Decision Making, and has served two three-year terms on the Board of Directors of the International Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution. She attended Stanford University, received a B.S. from Huxley College of Environmental Studies in Washington State and did her graduate work in environmental planning at the University of California, Berkeley. Ms. Bingham also has worked as a local government planner in the State of Washington and in India.