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Allen J. Zerkin is an Adjunct Professor of Public Administration at NYU’s Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service, teaching courses on negotiation and conflict management. Since 1999, he has been conducting a popular one-day workshop on negotiation at the American Planning Association’s annual National Planning Conference, and he serves as a member of the faculty of Het Amsterdams ADR Instituut in the Netherlands, teaching multi-party mediation and advanced negotiation workshops. He is member of the New York Bar and earned his J.D. at Yale Law School.

Professor Zerkin specializes in the design and facilitation of processes, such as stakeholder consensus building processes and roundtable dialogues, that are intended to resolve or to advance stakeholders’ understanding of state and local disputes and controversies.

Allen J.
Zerkin, J.D.
Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Administration
Title Sponsor(s)
Assistance for NYMTC withTasks for New Major Projects New York Metropolitan Transportation Council (NYMTC), Research and Innovative Technology Administration / USDOT (RITA)
Defining the Shared Goals of the NYMTC Principals and Related Future Trends New York Metropolitan Transportation Council (NYMTC), Research and Innovative Technology Administration / USDOT (RITA)
Potential Long Island Intermodal Sites Study New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT), Research and Innovative Technology Administration / USDOT (RITA)