Using Stakeholder Processes in
Environmental DecisionmakingAn Evaluation of Lessons Learned, Key Issues, and Future Challenges
X. Author Profiles
Dr. Terry F. Yosie, Executive Vice President of Ruder Finn Washington, has two decades of professional experience at senior levels of the U.S. government, private industry, and management consulting. From 1981-1988, he served as Director of EPA’s Science Advisory Board, instituting policies and programs to improve the use of science in regulatory decisionmaking and providing advice to the EPA Administrator and Congressional committees. Under his leadership, the SAB became one of the federal government’s ten largest advisory bodies. From 1988-1992, Dr. Yosie was Vice President for Health and Environment at the American Petroleum Institute, one of the nation’s largest trade associations. In this capacity he managed the industry’s health and environmental research programs, conducted legislative and regulatory analyses, and provided leadership on environmental management and policy issues. He also served as API’s principal strategist and spokesperson on public health and environmental issues.
Since 1992, Dr. Yosie has served as Executive Vice President of Ruder Finn Washington and leads the firm’s environmental practice. He has worked for a number of major corporations and other non-profit organizations on environmental management and strategic planning issues in a non-lobbying capacity.
Dr. Yosie is the author of approximately forty publications, including assessments of the endocrine disruption scientific and policy debate, regulatory reform, risk assessment, and an evaluation of corporate environmental management systems in the United States and developing nations. He is a frequent commentator to the national media on environmental issues and has spoken before many national and international groups. He is currently a member of the National Academy of Sciences Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Greenwire’s Board of Analysts, the Advisory Board to the Department of Civil Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, and serves as a consultant to the EPA Science Advisory Board. Dr. Yosie received his doctorate from the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University in 1981.
Timothy D. Herbst, Project Manager, ICF Incorporated. From 1995 through August 1998, Mr. Herbst was Environmental Counselor at Ruder Finn Washington. Mr. Herbst specializes in strategic communications counseling and environmental management to a diverse client base representing a wide variety of industry sectors and educational and non-profit institutions. In addition to his environmentally related responsibilities, Mr. Herbst was Director of Strategic Research at Ruder Finn’s Washington Office.
Mr. Herbst has been involved in a number of innovative projects including: benchmarking corporate reputation, management performance, and communications practices; conducting primary research, such as focus groups and personal interviews; developing communications and marketing strategies; strategically leveraging the World Wide Web and interactive media to achieve clients’ business and institutional goals; helping clients understand complex environmental issues as well as government, stakeholder, and customer expectations; and developing strategies for companies to more effectively manage stakeholder relationships and integrate their perspectives into business planning.
Mr. Herbst has published articles and reports on environmental management issues as well as case studies on regulatory negotiation and emissions trading. He possesses practical business experience, having founded a successful contracting business in San Diego, California, and Albany, New York, where he served as a manager/owner for eleven years.
He completed multi-disciplinary training to earn a Master’s of Science in Environmental Management and Policy at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and holds a B.A. degree from San Diego State University.
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