Merrick Hoben is Director of the Consensus Building Institute’s Washington, D.C., Regional Office, Practitioner Associate at the MIT-Harvard Public Disputes Program [1], and Faculty Associate at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy [2]. He has substantive expertise in land use planning [3], environmental health, and resource management issues.
Domestically, his work encompasses community-collaborative resource management and leadership training [4]with federal agencies, and assisting local governments to manage complex public resource decisions. Internationally, Merrick has extensive experience with mediation [5], negotiation, and training in Latin America and the Middle East. His bicultural and bilingual Spanish training and mediation experience enable him to work successfully with diverse populations on sensitive resource management issues. He also has experience facilitating [6]and mediating corporate- community conflicts.
Merrick is listed on the roster of conflict resolution professionals of the U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution [7]. He completed his negotiation and mediation training at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. He also holds a B.S. from the University of Vermont in Environmental Science and a M.S. from the University of Michigan in Resource Policy and Public Dispute Resolution.
