Gregg B. Walker is a professor of Communication and an adjunct professor in Environmental Sciences, Forestry, Oceanography, Public Policy, and Water Resources programs at Oregon State University.  He teaches courses in conflict, dispute resolution, and argumentation; and    facilitates and studies environmental policy-related collaboration efforts.  He is co-author of Working Through Environmental Conflict: The Collaborative Learning Approach (2001, Praeger), and co-editor of Breaking Boundaries: Innovative Practices in Environmental Communication and Public Participation (2019, SUNY Press) and co-editor of . Professor Walker is a member of the National Collaboration Cadre of the US Forest Service and the U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution. He leads observer teams at UN climate change meetings for Mediators Beyond Borders International and the International Environmental Communication Association.  Professor Walker serves as the “Modalities Expert” for the Paris Committee on Capacity Building, a UNFCCC Constituted Body, and is member of the Climate Reality Leadership Corps.  Professor Walker was an Erasmus Mundus Professor at the University of Copenhagen in 2010, 2014, and 2017.  He served as the director of the Peace Studies Program at Oregon State University from 1988 to 2006.

Areas of expertise: Conflict management and alternative dispute resolution: Situation assessment, conflict strategies, bargaining and negotiation, collaborative processes, mediation, facilitation, and international negotiation. Public participation and stakeholder engagement; community organization and empowerment. Climate change: Adaptation and resilience; climate and environmental justice; just transition; capacity building; human dimensions, indigenous knowledge. Environmental and science communication; community and organization capacity; participatory governance, systems thinking, skill-building, and decision-making.
Country of Origin: USA
Country of Residence: USA
Languages: English, Spanish (minimal)