Lisa Blomgren Bingham is the Keller-Runden Professor of Public Service
at Indiana University’s School of Public and Environmental Affairs,
Bloomington, Indiana. She has co-edited three books and authored over
60 articles and book chapters on dispute resolution and collaborative
governance. She was a Visiting Professor of Law at the University of
California Hastings College of the Law (2007). She is the author of a
2003 report to the IBM Center for The Business of Government,
“Mediation at Work: Transforming Workplace Conflict at the United
States Postal Service.”
Professor Bingham has served as a consultant or speaker on matters of
dispute system design and new governance processes to the Korean
Supreme Court Task Force on Civil Justice Reform, the Korea National
Relations Commission, the Korean Environmental Institute, the Korea
Development Institute, and World Bank. She also served as consultant
and outside evaluator for the U.S. Postal Service employment mediation program (REDRESS), and for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Institutes of Health, Occupational Safety and Health Review
Commission, U.S. Department of the Air Force, and Department of Justice. The recipient of five teaching awards at Indiana University, she received the Association for Conflict Resolution’s Abner Award in 2002 for excellence in research on dispute resolution in labor and employment
in the public sector, and research awards for conference papers from the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution (2004), Industrial Relations Research Association (1997, 1998, now Labor
and Employment Relations Association), and International Association for Conflict Management (IACM) (1994, 2004). Together with Professor Rosemary O’Leary of the Maxwell School, she received the Section
of Environmental and Natural Resource Administration of the American Society of Public Administration’s Best Book award for The Promise and Performance of Environmental Conflict Resolution (2005). In June
2006, she received the Rubin Theory-to-Practice Award from IACM and the Harvard Project on Negotiation for research that makes a significant impact on the practice of conflict resolution. She is an elected member
of the National Academy of Public Administration. Bingham is a graduate of Smith College (A.B. 1976 magna cum laude with high honors in Greek) and the University of Connecticut School of Law (J.D. 1979 with high honors).