Community Councilor
Julian designs and facilitates complex, multistakeholder consensus-building processes on natural resource management issues; issues related to peace, conflict and development outside the US; protected area management plans, climate change legislation, and others. He has worked throughout Latin America, focusing primarily in Mexico, Haiti, Argentina, Nicaragua, and Colombia, as well as the United States.
Julian also mediates for the Independent Accountability Mechanisms (IAMs) of the InterAmerican Development Bank (IDB), and the Dutch and German banks (FMO/DEG). IAM cases tend to be focused on finding suitable redress for communities affected by bank-funded infrastructure projects.
Julian has worked extensively with the UN in national, regional and global processes aimed at improving collaboration. He has facilitated and mediated complex processes in the areas of fisheries, agroecology, and international treaties related to the access to and use of digital genetic resources.
Julian lives in Vermont where he likes spending time with his family on the lake, in the mountains and in the kitchen making and eating good food.
