Douglas Thompson, Senior Mediator and Director, Environment Practice,
Center for Science and Public Policy

Doug Thompson, senior mediator and Director of the Environmental Practice Group for The Keystone Center, has a background in environmental protection, dispute resolution and management. He spent over twenty-five years with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in various technical and management capacities including chief of wetland protection and chief of water enforcement. As part of EPA’s dispute resolution program he served as a mediator and facilitator for a number of environmental issues as well as working on assignment as a program associate to the U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution in Tucson, Arizona during 1999.

Areas of special interest and expertise include enforcement case negotiation; interagency conflicts concerning regulatory or policy issues; and habitat protection disputes. Prior to EPA, he served as a VISTA volunteer in Chicago, Illinois. He has mediated extensively in the Massachusetts court system, is an adjunct faculty member of the University of Massachusetts Graduate Program in Dispute Resolution, and has experience mediating EEO, workplace and family disputes. He has been a practitioner and teacher of tai chi chuan for nearly 30 years, is a certified hospice volunteer and is an enthusiastic (though not very good) chess player. He received a B.A. in environmental science and a M.S. in biology from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.