Gail Bingham is President Emeritus of RESOLVE and has been a practicing mediator for 30 years, specializing in environment, natural resources, public health and community planning issues since the late 1970s. A nationally recognized pioneer in promoting consensus-building tools in public decision making, she has mediated breakthroughs such challenging issues as national wetlands policy, drinking water protection, and children’s environmental health. Gail also writes on mediation topics and conducts training in assessments, process design, negotiation and integrating science into consensus processes.
Gail is the 2006 winner of the Mary Parker Follett Award of the Association for Conflict Resolution, given “to
an individual who has shown a passion and willingness to take risks, has used innovative and experimental
techniques, and draws upon the talents and ideas of all persons…”
She has served as a mediator for a wide variety of federal, state, and local agencies and private parties
in situations involving complex, scientific and technical information and significant cultural and political
differences on such diverse subjects as: ecosystem restoration planning, federal drinking water regulations,
children’s environmental health, national wetlands policy, coastal and ocean resources, water quality and
water rights, geologic sequestration of carbon dioxide, the economic implications of climate change legislation,
public lands management, endangered species, infrastructure costs for water and wastewater utilities,
groundwater protection, hydro-electric relicensing, chemicals policy, solid waste source reduction, oil spill
contingency plans, pesticides policy, and local community land use and infrastructure issues.