Gary Alan Spanovich

Gary’s work is to facilitate change and to end conflict so that projects that would benefit all parties can move forward. He has done this during his entire 35 year career. Whether working internationally for the Singapore Ministry of National Development or the Borough of Harrow in England; or for two of the largest Engineering firms in the world: CRS Group Architects/Engineers in the 1980’s or PARSONS Engineering; or for Regional and County Governments; or the last ten years in South Korea, China, North Korea, and India.

Gary has worked with transportation issues on the Korean Peninsula for over a decade. In his work with Nobel Peace Laureates and high government transportation officials, including the President of the Korea Transport Institute (KOTI) and the South Korean Minister of Transportation he has been published over ten times in South Korean transportation publications. He has been a keynote speaker at many international conferences in: South Korea, North Korea, and China. He, with a group of colleagues from China, South Korea, and Japan initiated an Undersea Tunnel Association to study tunnels between: China and North Korea; China and South Korea; South Korea and Japan; Russia and the United States. Gary is an experienced mediator, transportation infrastructure professional, and a communications consultant and facilitator.  He is experienced in working with diverse groups to achieve consensus and he uses the Wholistic Approach ©. He has also been involved in the possible end of the Korean Conflict for the last 15 years and has studied the issues and has an understanding of how they might be solved.

Founder & Executive Director of the Institute has accomplished humanitarian work in India since 1992 and in 1995 built a school for street children there with Rotarian assistance. Through this work he began to do humanitarian work for 53 Tibetan Refugee camps in India. Gary has worked with five large Universities in Oregon along with a planning committee of Oregon’s senior faith leaders. He has accomplished many student peace activites involving Middle, High School and College students all over oregon. He also has worked with Oregon’s Governor and First Lady, the Mayor of Portland and former US Senator Mark O. Hatfield.

Gary Alan Spanovich, AICP,  is a Planner/Project Manager with 38 years of land use and infrastructure experience in Oregon practicing as a Land Use Planner; Transportation & Engineering Director; and a certified policy mediator mediating disputes among stakeholders on major public projects in the state. He has worked in both southern Oregon in the rural areas and the urban areas to obtain land use permits for various projects, including a number of cell phone towers. Gary has a BSBA from the University of Florida, 1970 in Quantitative Methods & Statistics; a MSP from Florida State University, 1974 in transportation & regional planning. He has also completed a year and a half toward a Ph.D. in Urban Planning from Portland State University and has both attended a number of short courses over his career and also taught them for the USDOT.