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Geoff HuntingtonSenior Instructor
2004 - Advance Mediation Certification, Straus Institute for
Dispute Resolution Pepperdine University School of Law
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EXPERIENCESustainability Consulting and Regeneration Business Leadership. Following his tenure in public service, Geoff served Fortune 50 clients as a member of the Blu Skye Sustainability Consulting Group and Sustain LLC. He led complex sustainability initiatives requiring participation and buy-in of supply chain members and stakeholder groups. Through strategic listening and questioning, he helped corporate clients design and execute initiatives tapping the business value derived from regenerating post-industrial waste streams into high value raw materials for re-use within the supply chain. His practice specialized in the design of tools and systems to establish, authenticate, and verify the sustainability of products and their production processes within the context of environmental, social, and financial outcomes relevant to the client’s core business objectives. This consulting practice led to equity partnership and appointment as Chief Strategic Officer in an emerging textile regeneration business called “Circle” where he currently oversees the licensing of patented regeneration technology on an international scale. Senior Instructor, Oregon State University, Department of Forestry. Senior Instructor, Oregon State University, College of Forestry. 1994 to present. Geoff has maintained his academic teaching appointment where he specializes in law and policy issues relating to the federal Endangered Species and Clean Water Acts, western state water allocation laws, and administration of natural resource and environmental policies by government agencies and the courts. He works primarily with graduate students from multiple departments at the University, bringing current natural resource policy challenges faced by the North West into the classroom to examine how they are being shaped and influenced by the matrix of existing state and federal laws. Executive Director, Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board. 1999 to 2004. Geoff served in the Governor’s Natural Resources Cabinet as director of the agency charged with coordinating and supporting the Oregon Plan for Salmon and Watersheds – a multi-faceted approach to watershed health based on government and citizen-based restoration actions aimed at advancing salmon recovery and water quality goals of the State. He managed and framed policy initiatives for investment of over $20 million annually in watershed restoration projects, and research and monitoring programs in coordination with ongoing specie recovery efforts of the federal government Deputy Director, Oregon Water Resources Department. 1995 to 1999. Geoff had line authority for administration and policy direction of the 160 person agency charged with administering Oregon’s water allocation laws based on the appropriation doctrine. His tenure at the Department included a focus on program development to address federal ESA listing impacts on water rights, and in stream flow mitigation and enhancement needs. Geoff also oversaw daily management of the agency’s budget and human resources. Assistant Director, Oregon Division of State Lands. 1995 Interim Appointment. During a director search, Geoff was appointed Acting Administrator of the agency’s Policy and Planning Division charged with overseeing state owned forests, range lands, navigable rivers, and wetlands fill and removal laws Assistant Attorney General Specializing in Natural Resource Law. New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office 1986 – 1990, Oregon Department of Justice 1991 – 1995. Complex case litigation involving enforcement and defense of natural resource and environmental laws in state and federal courts. Extensive experience in negotiated dispute resolution of conflicts involving natural resource issues. Affiliations: U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution,
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