Michael Elliot
Associate Professor of Planning and Public Policy
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0155
Phone: 404/894-9841; Fax: 404/894-1628
michael.elliott@arch.gatech.edu Ph.D., Urban and Regional Studies, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, 1984
M.C.P. University of California, Berkeley, 1978
B.S., Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, 1974
B.S., Urban Studies, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, 1974 | 
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Dr. Michael Elliott is an Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Environmental Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His specialties include public policy dispute resolution and environmental management. Dr. Elliot also serves as the Co-Director and Principal of the Southeast Negotiation Network.
In these capacities, Dr. Elliot (1) mediates and facilitates public policy consensus building processes, (2) designs dispute management systems, and (3) conducts research in policy implementation and conflict management. These activities have focused on resolving disputes over solid and hazardous waste, siting and managing locally unwanted facilities, risk management policy, endangered species, resource management, and growth management. Nationally, he has worked with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Energy, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the National Park Service, the Army Environmental Policy Institute, the U.S. Council on Environmental Quality, and the New York Academy of Science. Internationally, he also provides dispute resolution training and process consultations for environmental management specialists from Estonia, Germany, Israel, and Kazakhstan, and land tenure specialists with the UNDP in Nicaragua.
As a teacher of continuing education courses, Dr. Elliott has conducted over 30 training workshops in the field of public policy conflict management and negotiation. Publications in the field of dispute resolution include Models for Mediation, Social Conflict Assessment in the Design of Risk Management Systems, The Effects of Differing Assessments of Risk in Hazardous Waste Facility Siting Negotiations, and Resolving Development Disputes through Conflict Resolution. He has co-authored a book on Paternalism, Conflict and Co-Production that focused on the potential transfer to the United States of conflict management techniques employed in Europe. These articles, chapters and books focus on various aspects of conflict management, with emphasis on conflict assessment, political analysis and strategies for conflict management for complex, multi-party disputes associated with public policymaking.
Dr. Elliot is a member of the Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution, the National Association of Environmental Professionals, the International Association of Conflict Management and the American Planning Association.
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