Jonathan Brock is the chair of the Hanford Concerns Council, appointed by agreement of Hanford Challenge and participating contractor companies. His role is to convene and oversee the efforts to resolve the whistleblower cases that come before the Hanford Concerns Council.  Professor Brock retired from his position as associate professor at the University of Washington’s Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs and is a former faculty member at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, where he won the “Best Teacher” award.  He currently serves on the recently formed Secretary of Labor’s Whistleblower Protection Advisory Committee and has worked for three US Secretaries of Labor, under administrations of both parties.

While at the University of Washington he founded the Cascade Center as one of the largest public sector leadership training programs in the country; the Electronic Hallway, the first internet curriculum service, now used to access course materials in public policy and administration by universities worldwide; and founded the William D. Ruckelshaus Center, dedicated to assisting in the resolution of difficult public policy issues and performing research to understand best practices in conflict resolution. In that role, he led the Center’s work on disputes that involved tribes, federal, state and local government, agribusiness, environmental groups, land developers, hospitals, nurses and others, and worked with representatives of these groups as well as legislators, the Governor’s office, state and local elected and appointed officials and association representatives. He has worked frequently with labor and management representatives in a variety of sectors.

Among his publications in personnel and labor relations are Managing People in Public Agencies, Bargaining Beyond Impasse, and Going Public: The Role of Labor-Management Relations in Delivering Quality Government Services, co-edited with David B. Lipsky of Cornell University.  He has written about the whistleblower conflict resolution system at the Hanford Concerns Council and its implications for national whistleblower policy.  (“Full and Fair Resolution of Whistleblower Issues:  The Hanford Joint Council, A Pilot ADR Approach” in Administrative Law Review, Volume 51, Number 2, Spring 1999 and “Filling in the Holes in Whistleblower Protection Systems: Lessons from the Hanford Council Experience” in Seattle Journal for Social Justice, Volume 11, Issue 2, Article 6, 12-1-2013)

His written public policy work has twice received the Abner Award from the Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution for work that crossed over from academia to the professional world, and he was honored in 2004 by the International Personnel Management Association with their Lifetime Achievement Award.

Professor Brock has been chair of the Hanford Concerns Council and its predecessor organization, the Hanford Joint Council, since the initial founding in 1994.

Correspondence to Council Members may be directed through the Council.