Daniel Rainey
Instructor

Daniel Rainey currently is the Director of the Office of Alternative Dispute Resolution Services (ADRS)
 for the National Mediation Board, and he is the agency's Ombudsman. He joined the NMB in April, 2001.

He directs the NMB alternative dispute resolution (ADR) program, which includes: 1) an ongoing training program offering courses in Facilitated Problem Solving and Grievance Mediation; 2) specialized training in
topics such as teambuilding and System Boards of Adjustment; 3) third party work in grievance mediation, interest-based contract negotiation, and group facilitation; and, 4) Online Dispute Resolution (ODR). The ODR program includes the use of technology for contract negotiations, grievance mediation, arbitration hearings, and other work with parties in the airline and railroad industries. He is a member of a research team working under a National Science Foundation grant designed to develop information about process modeling and the impact of ODR tools in mediation.

Immediately prior to coming to the NMB, he was the owner/president of a consulting firm specializing in conflict management and conflict intervention. From 1978 through 1990, he was a faculty member at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.

He is a member of the Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR), and the Association of Labor Relations Agencies (ALRA).  For ACR, he is co-Chair of the ODR Section, and he is Chair of the ALRA Technology Committee. He is a member of InternetBar.org, an online dispute resolution organization addressing issues of justice involving cyber-law and cyber-transactions, he is a member of the planning committee for the Fifth International ODR Conference (Liverpool, UK, April, 2007), and he is a Fellow of the Center for Information Technology and Dispute Resolution (CITDR) at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and at Southern Methodist University.