Dr. Scott McCreary, President of CONCUR Inc, is a Senior Mediator and Environmental Policy Expert. He specializes in convening expert panels, coaching agencies in collaborative governance, and facilitating multiparty deliberations. The range of his project involvement spans land use and natural resource planning, marine resources, water supply and quality, biodiversity conservation, mitigation of impacts to protected species, air quality, climate change, and renewable energy.
His work focuses on effective ways to combine research and rigorous analysis with environmental decision making processes—a specialization he developed at UC Berkeley, MIT and the Harvard Program on Negotiation. He has strong dual expertise in natural science and public policy and in the full range of facilitation and mediation techniques.
Building on 38 years of work as an environmental planner and 35 years of experience as a facilitator and mediator, Scott has facilitated deliberations among diverse agencies, businesses, elected officials, indigenous communities, , and conservation organizations and other nonprofit organizations
Scott has led over 120 projects ranging from site-specific cases to implementation of federal regulations to policy initiatives that span multiple states and international transboundary regions. He often teams with environmental planning and policy firms and consults with government agencies, university consortia and colleague organizations on issue framing, stakeholder assessment, and process design for complex environmental cases.
He regularly presents to graduate programs in environmental planning and policy, most recently at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, the University of Hawaii and Virginia Tech.
