Todd Bryan, Ph.D., Senior Associate, Center for Science and Public Policy

Todd Bryan has worked in the environmental and natural resource field for almost 30 years and has spent more than 15 years as a mediator and trainer. Todd works with federal, state, and local agencies, tribal governments, non-governmental organizations, and communities, where he focuses on developing collaborative approaches to environmental and natural resource decision-making. Todd specializes in ecosystem management, ecological restoration, water resource management, and sustainability. His current work involves the lead on a stakeholder assessment and dialogue feasibility study for the proposed Pebble mine in southwestern Alaska. His most recent project involved the design and facilitation of a collaborative process to develop a travel management plan for the Golden Horseshoe, an 8900-acre forested landscape managed by the U.S. Forest Service and the Breckenridge and Summit County, Colorado open space programs.

Todd has also designed and delivered training workshops in collaborative skills and processes throughout the U.S. and in Portugal. In addition, he is a lecturer in the School of Public Affairs at the University of Colorado-Denver where he teaches popular courses in negotiation and conflict management. Todd also teaches environmental mediation in the School of Natural Resources & Environment at the University of Michigan, where he is a Senior Fellow with the school’s Ecosystem Management Initiative.

Todd is the author of the article Tragedy Averted: the Promise of Collaboration and is a contributor to the book Making Sense of Intractable Environmental Conflicts. Todd has a BS in agriculture from the University of Kentucky, MS degrees in water resources management and landscape architecture from the University of Wisconsin, and a Master of Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. Todd recently completed his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan where he studied the transformation of identity-based environmental conflict. He is a former Ford Foundation Community Forestry Research Fellow and a senior member of both the U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution’s roster of professional mediators and its Native Dispute Resolution Network.

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