Dr. Michael Elliott

Biography

Michael L. Poirier Elliott is an Associate Professor Emeritus in the School of City and Regional Planning at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has played a significant role as the director of the Masters in City and Regional Planning program and is a co-founder and served as co-director of the Consortium on Negotiation and Conflict Resolution and the Southeast Negotiation Network. His professional experience includes serving as the executive assistant for program development for the New York City Deputy Mayor for Economic Development. Elliott has been the principal investigator for 37 research projects and co-principal investigator for an additional 13, focusing on women's action for climate resilience in urban poor areas of South Asia. His research broadly examines environmental dispute dynamics, the effectiveness of dispute management processes, and the social impacts of collaborative processes, with a particular emphasis on risk perception, conflict assessment, and political analysis. He has developed strategies for managing complex, multi-party disputes associated with public policymaking and has conducted 50 professional training workshops in public policy collaboration, conflict management, and negotiation. Internationally, he has provided consultations for dispute system process design related to environmental and land disputes in countries such as Estonia, Israel, Nicaragua, Kazakhstan, and Germany.

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