Michael Garner
Executive Director
Northwest Compact Committee

Policy Analyst
Technical Assistance and Regulatory Coordination
Nuclear Waste Program
Department of Ecology
State of Washington

Appointed Forum Participant by the Northwest Compact Committee in 1997

Since 1997, Michael Garner has served as Executive Director of the Northwest Interstate Compact on Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management, where his duties include coordination, oversight, and planning of ongoing compact activities. Garner has also been a Policy Analyst in the Nuclear Waste Program since 1990, with responsibility for policy, administrative and regulatory issues related to commercial low-level radioactive waste management.

Prior to working for state government, Garner was a research biologist, a quality control manager, and an operations manager for an aquaculture venture owned by Campbell Soup Company.

Garner received a bachelor’s degree in fisheries from the University of Washington.