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Dorian Fougères, Ph.D.

Dorian is an Lead Mediator who specializes in facilitating public policy processes where Tribal, State, Federal, and Local governments can have meaningful and productive conversations with diverse stakeholders, including scientists, engineers, and planners. His work focuses on water & land resources as well as emergency management & homeland security, but extends to mental health and other social issues. His primary area of expertise is conflict resolution, with secondary expertise in strategic and communication planning, assessment, civic engagement, and visioning. As of September 2009, Dorian's major projects include the 2009 California Tribal Water Summit, the California Tribal Emergency Management/ Homeland Security Project, the Delta Protection Commission's Land Use and Resource Management Plan Update, and the California FloodSAFE Levee Performance Scope Definition Work Group. Dorian also does pro bono work around Tribal flood issues with the Floodplain Management Association. His latest areas of professional development are facilitation training, whole systems change, and large-scale methods.

Dorian comes to the Center from academia, and he has had an interest in mediation and facilitation since he studied participatory action research as an undergraduate at Cornell. He completed his Ph.D. in the University of California at Berkeley's Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management in December 2005. As part of his dissertation research he spent a year living in Indonesia, where he studied the historical development of the markets for high-value seafoods that link Indonesia 's coastal zone to markets in Hong Kong and Japan. After completing a post-doc at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Southeast Asian Studies, he transitioned to working in California with a Sea Grant Fellowship. He has been with the Center since late 2007.