DIANE E. TATE
Diane E. Tate, M.P.Aff., Program Manager, is a specialist in water resource issues. Prior to joining CDR, she served as a water policy advisor to the U.S. Department of State. In this role, she developed partnerships and initiatives to advance access to water and sanitation in developing countries, and mitigate conflict over transboundary water resources. Her responsibilities included extensive coordination with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and other federal agencies. Working through USAID, Ms. Tate served as a key member of a team charged with assessing opportunities for support of local water infrastructure development through credit guarantees, including extensive interviews with financial institutions, international organizations, municipal authorities and bilateral development agencies. Ms. Tate joined the Department of State through the Presidential Management Fellows program.EDUCATION AND AFFILIATIONS Ms. Tate was awarded her M.P.Aff. from the University of Texas at Austin's Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs in 2002, and received mediation training from the University of Texas School of Law that same year. During her graduate career, Ms. Tate designed and programmed a surface water resources model of the lower Rio Grande/Rio Bravo basin, and developed strategies for building collaborative relationships between Texan and Mexican government officials during a multi-party operations simulation. Her professional report reflects this work and additional research on the role of technology in mediation. Prior to her graduate work, Ms. Tate designed and managed water, sanitation, and drainage systems for municipalities in the State of Texas as a licensed professional civil engineer. She graduated from Rice University in 1995 with a B.S. in Civil Engineering.
PUBLICATIONS Tate, D., "Bringing Technology to the Table: Computer Modeling, Dispute
Resolution, and the Rio Grande," Professional Report, Lyndon B. Johnson School
of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin, 2002. Tate, D., "Creating an Environment of Consensus: Comparison of Senate Bill 1 to a Consensus Building Process," in The State Bar of Texas Environmental Law Journal, Spring 2002. Eaton, D. and Tate, D., "Using US / Mexico Transboundary Water Quality Experience for Palestinian / Israeli Applications," Bridging the Gap: Meeting the World's Water and Environmental Resources Challenges, Proceedings of the World Water and Environmental Resources Congress, May 20-24, 2001. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS "Challenges to Computer Assisted Negotiation in Transboundary Riverine Systems." Presenter and panel discussion, Association for Canadian Studies in the United State (ACSUS) Conference, San Antonio, Texas, November 16, 2001.
