Matthew McKinney

Matthew McKinney is Director of the Center for Natural Resources and Environmental Policy at The University of Montana where his work focuses on collaborative approaches to natural resource and environmental policy. Peviously, he served as the founding director of the Montana Consensus Council for 10 years. During the past 20+ years, he has designed, facilitated, mediated, directed, and evaluated nearly 50 multi-party public processes addresses issues related to federal land management, water policy, fish and wildlife, land use planning and growth management, public health and human services, and a variety of other public issues.

Matthew received a Ph.D. in Natural Resource Policy and Conflict Resolution from The University of Michigan. He has published numerous articles in journals and books, and teaches workshops, seminars, and courses on natural resource policy and public dispute resolution. Matthew is an Adjunct Professor at The University of Montana’s School of Law; Chair of the Natural Resource Conflict Resolution Program; and Senior Associate at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. He serves on the Board of Advisors for the Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute, and was a research fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University in 2000 and 2002.