Daniel Rainey

Daniel Rainey is the Director of the Office of Alternative Dispute Resolution Services (ADRS) for the National Mediation Board.  As Director, ADRS, he is responsible for a range of projects and program areas, involving cooperation with and support for Mediation, Arbitration, and Representation.

He directs the NMB's core alternative dispute resolution (ADR) program, including: the Board's Facilitated Problem Solving training and facilitation for contract negotiations and joint problem solving; Grievance Mediation training and facilitation; specialized training and facilitation (team building, etc.); and Online Dispute Resolution (ODR). The ODR program includes the use of technology for contract negotiations, grievance mediation, arbitration hearings, and arbitration adoption conferences. He is the NMB’s liaison to a team of researchers working under a National Science Foundation research 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 currently one of the instructors, online, responsible for teaching UMass’ undergraduate Online Dispute Resolution course.

He is a member of the Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR) and the Virginia Association for Conflict Resolution (VACR), and the Association of Labor Relations Agencies (ALRA). For ACR, he is the co-Chair of the ODR Section, and he is co-Chair of the ALRA Technology Committee.