Julian designs and facilitates complex, multi stakeholder 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 also works extensively with Meridian Institute facilitating and mediating complex processes in the areas of fisheries, food composition analysis and international treaties related to the 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.