Education: BS, University of California, Berkeley 1970; MS, University of California, Berkeley 1971; Master of City Planning, University of California, Berkeley 1974; PhD, University of California, Berkeley 1977

Career: John Forester has been Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at Cornell University since 1992. Previously he was Assistant Professor from 1978–84 and Associate Professor from 1984–92. He served as Chair of the Department from 1998–2001 and also as Associate Dean of the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning. Before that he was lecturer in the School of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Southern California in 1977 and in that year in the Public Administration Department at California State University, Hayward. From 1977–78 he was Lecturer in Environmental Studies Board and College Eight at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His research into the micropolitics of the planning process, ethics, and political deliberation assesses the ways planners shape participatory processes and manage public disputes in diverse settings. He is a mediator for the Community Dispute Resolution Center of Tompkins County, has consulted for the Consensus Building Institute, and has lectured in the past several years in Seattle, Chapel Hill, Sydney, Melbourne, Helsinki, Palermo, Johannesburg, and Aix-en-Provence. His research interests include participatory planning processes, ethics and deliberative democracy, public dispute resolution and multi-party mediated negotiations, and oral histories of planning practitioners. John Forester is co-editor of Planning Theory & Practice (see url below).

Honours and awards: Hon. DLitt (University of Sheffield) 2003; University of California Alumni Association Student Community Service Award 1969, Kent Fellow, Danforth Foundation Graduate Fellowship 1975–78, National Institute for Dispute Resolution Teaching Materials Grant 1986, President's Fund for Undergraduate Education Project Award 1987, Dean's Fund for Excellence, College of Architecture, Art and Planning, Cornell University 1988, 1991, Distinguished Visiting Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology 1989, Visiting Professor, Dipartimento di Territorio, Turin, Italy 1990, Clarkson Visiting Professor, SUNY Buffalo 1991, ACSP Paul Davidoff Award (co-recipient 1991, Lady Davis Visiting Professor, Technion, Haifa, Israel 1993–94, Hyde Chair for Excellence in Community and Regional Planning, University of Nebraska-lincoln (co-appointee) 1995, Samuel J. Lefrak Lecturer, University of Maryland, College Park, School of Architecture, Urban Studies and Planning Program 1995, Ten Year Service Recognition, Community Dispute Resolution Center 1997

Publications include: Urban and Regional Planning in an Age of Austerity (co-editor) 1980, Critical Theory and Public life (editor) 1985, Policy-making, Communication, and Social learning (co-editor) 1987, Confronting Values in Policy Analysis: The Politics of Criteria (co-editor) 1987, Planning in the Face of Power 1989, Making Equity Planning Work: leadership in the Public Sector (co-author) 1990, The Argumentative Turn in Policy Analysis and Planning (co-editor) 1993, Critical Theory, Public Policy and Planning Practice 1993, The Deliberative Practitioner: Encouraging Participatory Planning Processes 1999, Israeli Planners and Designers: Profiles of Community Builders (co-editor) 2001; numerous articles in professional journals

Contact details: Address: Department of City and Regional Planning, Cornell University, 111 West Sibley Hall, Ithaca, NY l4850, USA; Tel: +l 607-255-5179; Tel: +l 617-548-9958 (mobile); Fax: +l 607-255-1971; Email: jffl@cornell.edu ; Website: http://www.crp.cornell.edu/ ; Website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/l4649357.asp/ .