René-Marc Mangin René-Marc Mangin, Ph.D., Vancouver, WA. Dr. Mangin is a mediator and a management and communications consultant. He specializes in science-intensive disputes and has mediated a variety of multi-jurisdictional environmental and economic development conflicts over the past 24 years. In the late 1980s, he was a senior advisor to the U.S. Department of Energy regarding the Superfund negotiations at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. Since then, he has mediated many labor, workplace, and local government disputes. Dr. Mangin is a former executive in the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality and the Washington State Department of Ecology. He has been a faculty member in the Department of Political Science at Washington State University, an adjunct professor of management at Marylhurst University, and an instructor in the Mediation Clinic of the University of Washington’s Continuing Legal Education program. Dr. Mangin holds a multi-disciplinary doctorate degree, a Master’s degree in environmental toxicology, Bachelor’s degrees in cell biology and anthropology from Washington State University, and an MBA from the University of Oregon. He is the author of several dispute resolution articles and a book on nonverbal communications entitled Minds in Motion. Dr. Mangin is a past president of the Pacific Northwest Chapter of the Society for Professionals in Dispute Resolution. (10/10)