Bill Pistor is an environmental and collaborative solutions expert with 21 years intensive and high-level experience resolving sensitive and complicated issues, from international disputes to business and air/water quality issues.

As a senior process designer/counselor and front-line facilitator and mediator with Kearns & West, Bill is skilled at devising programs and processes that effectively steer difficult multi-party negotiations to outcomes that reflect all parties’ goals. He also provides seasoned counsel on high-level public affairs and policy-related communications for Kearns & West and its clients.

Having directed public involvement and guided participants through a collaborative process to forge a comprehensive settlement agreement in relicensing a significant California hydroelectric energy facility, Bill is now directing the implementation of the settlement agreement, a project that involves managing extensive cultural, scientific, environmental, and business issues and interests and dozens of active participants. Bill has managed collaborative efforts and public outreach strategies on numerous, large-scale energy and environmental projects throughout California including work on the Klamath, Pitt and San Joaquin watersheds. In the course of these efforts Bill has established a state and national reputation for success with a broad range of influential stakeholder groups involved in energy and environmental decision-making.

Bill’s environmental policy, negotiation and public involvement experience is diverse. During his tenure at the US Environmental Protection Agency, he was the lead negotiator for the United States in a trilateral process (US, Mexico and Canada) establishing environmental institutions to support border infrastructure improvement and environmental protection. He was an Executive Assistant to two EPA administrators and advised the White House on public outreach and participation related to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), managing the US role in creating the international agency responsible for the NAFTA’s environmental protection measures. Prior to this, Bill was deputy director of Congressional Affairs for EPA and advised the head of the EPA and other senior staff on legislative outreach and communications issues.

Bill is based in Kearns & West’s San Francisco office. He has a B.A. in political science from Colorado College in Colorado Springs, CO, and a Master’s Degree in policy administration from the American University, Washington, DC.

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