Looking forward to the podcast session with Ed Watt on Expert Views on ADR (EVA) Vid /Podcast Show. Mr. Watt started his forty (40) year career in transportation as a front-line worker at New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA). He rose to the position of Financial Secretary of the largest transit local in North America. He has worked for the two largest International transit unions, the Amalgamated Transit Union ATU and the Transport Workers Union TWU. As Health and Safety Director for TWU, he worked with Rail, Transit, and Airline Divisions. In his long career, Mr. Watt has served in many local, national, and international roles.

In addition to his six years as the Labor representative on the NY MTA Board, he has served as Vice-Chair of the Urban Transport Committee of the International Transport Workers Federation ITF, Human Resources Joint Steering Committee with UITP, and delegate to the International Labour Organization on Transport Safety. Mr. Watt has facilitated research with the TRB, NIOSH, and Cornell University’s Institute for Workplace Studies.

In addition to six (6) years on the project selection committee of TCRP, he has been a panel member of fifteen (15) projects, has served on the Transit Oversight Project Oversight Commission, and currently serves on the J-07 Oversight Panel (Synthesis). He is a Consulting Associate of the Mineta Transportation Institute.

He holds a Master of Science in Industrial and Labor Relations, MSILR, from Baruch/Cornell. He is currently the Principal of WattADR, an alternative dispute resolution practice. Since beginning his practice in 2021, he has mediated over eighty (80) disputes. He mediates in Queens County, Long Island Dispute Resolution Centers, and is a member of the Illinois Sixteenth Judicial Circuit Mediation Roster, Kane County. He also assists in training new mediators in the above DRCs and at Hofstra Law School.

Stay Tuned!

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