Organizational Leadership |
Peter Adler
Christine Scanlan
Mike Hughes |
Peter S. Adler, Ph.D.
Title: President, The Keystone Center
Location: Keystone, CO
Phone: 970-513-5841
Peter S. Adler, Ph.D. is President of The Keystone Center, which applies consensus-building and cutting-edge scientific information to energy, environmental, and health-related policy problems. The Keystone Center also offers extensive training and professional education programs to educators and business leaders and runs the Keystone Science School in the Rocky Mountains. Adler's specialty is multi-party negotiation and problem solving. He has worked extensively on water management and resource planning problems and mediates, writes, trains, and teaches in diverse areas of conflict management. He has worked on cases ranging from the siting of a 25-megawatt geothermal energy production facility to the resolution of construction and product liability claims involving a multi-million dollar stadium. He has extensive experience in land planning issues, water problems, marine and coastal affairs, and strategic resource management.
Prior to his appointment at Keystone, Adler held executive positions with the Hawaii Justice Foundation, the Hawaii Supreme Court's Center for Alternate Dispute Resolution (ADR), and the Neighborhood Justice Center. He has served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in India, an instructor and Associate Director of the Hawaii Bound School, and President of the Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution. He has been awarded the Roberston-Cunninghame Scholar in Residence Fellowship at the University of New England, New South Wales, Australia, a Senior Fellowship at the Western Justice Center, and was a consultant to the U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution.
Adler has written extensively in the field of mediation and conflict resolution. He is the co-author of Managing Scientific & Technical Information in Environmental Cases (1999); Building Trust: 20 Things You Can Do to Help Environmental Stakeholder Groups Talk More Effectively About Science, Culture, Professional Knowledge, and Community Wisdom (National Policy Consensus Center, 2002); the author of Beyond Paradise and Oxtail Soup (Ox Bow Press, 1993 and 2000) and numerous other articles and monographs.
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Christine Scanlan
Title: Sr. Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
Location: Keystone, CO
Phone: 970-513-5827
Ms. Scanlan joined The Keystone Center in 1994 and leads The Center's administrative office including finance, operations, human resources, information services, marketing, and development activities. As well, she is responsible for overseeing The Center’s education programs including Keystone Science School’s campus-based programs and the Professional Education and Leadership division’s work in curriculum development and teacher training.
Ms. Scanlan's role with The Center has included working with project teams on specific Science and Public Policy dialogue efforts and implementing program and project development strategies. Ms. Scanlan directs the Keystone Annual Leadership Awards Dinner in Washington, D.C. and administers the annual fund campaign for the organization. Ms. Scanlan received her Master of Arts in Nonprofit Organization Management and her Bachelor of Arts in History from Regis University. Ms. Scanlan is a member of the Summit School District’s Board of Education.
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Mike Hughes
Title: Vice President and Director, Center for Science and Public Policy
Division: Center for Science and Public Policy
Location: Denver, CO
Phone: 303-468-8861
Michael Hughes is the Vice-President and Director of The Keystone Center for Science and Public Policy. He is a mediator and trainer with 16 years experience in public policy mediation, workplace mediation and mediator training. In recent years, he has mediated long-standing conflicts over transportation, land use, air quality and health policy. He has conducted regulatory negotiations, policy dialogues and site-specific mediations at the local, state and federal level. Mike holds a Master’s degree in City Planning from the University of Pennsylvania, worked as a planner in local government and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners. He received a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science and Sociology from the University of Denver magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa.
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