About Civic Dialog Group
Gail Bingham is the President of Civic Dialog Group, LLC, and President Emeritus of RESOLVE. She has been a practicing mediator for over 35 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 in such challenging issues as national wetlands policy, drinking water protection, and children’s environmental health. She currently serves as the Chair of the Missouri River Recovery Implementation Committee and convener of the Lead Service Line Replacement Collaborative. She is particularly interested in ways to integrate 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.
She currently serves on advisory committees for the Haub School of Natural Resources at the University of Wyoming and the Center for Environmental Policy at American University. Previously, Gail served on the National Academy of Sciences Panel on Public Participation in Environmental Assessment and Decision Making. She also served two terms on the Board of Directors of the Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution (now the Association for Conflict Resolution) and was the founding chair of its environment and public policy sector, president of its Washington DC Chapter; and a member of the National Commission on Mediator Qualifications. Gail 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.
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.
She currently serves on advisory committees for the Haub School of Natural Resources at the University of Wyoming and the Center for Environmental Policy at American University. Previously, Gail served on the National Academy of Sciences Panel on Public Participation in Environmental Assessment and Decision Making. She also served two terms on the Board of Directors of the Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution (now the Association for Conflict Resolution) and was the founding chair of its environment and public policy sector, president of its Washington DC Chapter; and a member of the National Commission on Mediator Qualifications. Gail 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.