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Environmentalist and human rights activist Dianne Dillon-Ridgley is a noted international speaker on Sustainability, Corporate Social Responsibility, Population, Gender and Justice issues.

She is a director at Interface, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia, global manufacturer of commercial carpet, modular floor coverings, commercial fabrications and a leader in sustainable design.

She is also a director at Green Mountain Energy, a leading retailer of renewably produced electricity in the United States, where she chairs the company's environmental integrity committee.

In addition Ms. Dillon-Ridgley represents the World Y.W.C.A (World Young Women's Christian Association, Geneva, Switzerland) at UN headquarters in New York, is a trustee of the Wallace Global Fund and in 1999 was appointed to the Oxford University Commission on Sustainable Consumption.

During the last ten years Ms. Dillon-Ridgley has served on numerous U.S. delegations at UN. global meetings and other international conferences. She was commissioned by the White House to serve as an advisor and member of the US. Delegation to the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro, 1992. After the Earth Summit she was appointed national co-chair of the Citizen's Network for Sustainable Development in the U.S. In 1994 the US. Embassy in Cairo commissioned her to work with the Egyptian NGO Steering Committee for ICPD and in 1995 she spoke at the U N. Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing. In 1996 she was again on the US. Government Delegation at "Habitat II," the City Summit in Istanbul and the Food Summit in Rome.

UN Assistant Secretary Wally N'Dow commissioned her as his Gender Advisor for Best Practices during the preparatory process for Habitat and she was the U.S. member of the Best Practices International Jury at Habitat. Ms. Dillon-Ridgley was on the U.S. Delegation for the five-year review of the Earth Summit, United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS), June 1997, and the Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) in 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2001. In 1998 she was private sector advisor to the US. Delegation of the World Meeting on Water, Paris.

In 1994 President Clinton appointed her to the President's Council on Sustainable Development where she also served as co-chair of the Council's International Task Force with then Secretary of Commerce Daley and co-chaired the Population and Consumption Task Force with former Undersecretary of State Tim Wirth.

From 1994-1997 she was president of Zero Population Growth (ZPG), the nation's largest grassroots organization concerned with rapid population growth and the environment. She was Acting Executive Director of the Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO) during 1998 and 1999.

Ms. Dillon-Ridgley did her undergraduate work at Howard University and is state-certified by the Iowa Mediation Service as a mediator specializing in agricultural mediation and public policy negotiation.

In 1997 she was elected Board Vice-Chair of the National Summit on Africa and received the United Nations Association of America Garst Memorial Award for individual service and global citizenship. In 1998 she was elected to the steering committee of the Global Water Partnership, Stockholm.

She is also a former director of the Iowa Humanities Board, a division of the National Endowment for the Humanities. From 1987 to 1998 she chaired the Targeted Small Business Board for the Iowa Department of Economic Development and served four terms as president of the Association of Iowa Human Rights Agencies.

Currently a trustee of the International Board for Auburn University's School of Human Sciences, she was adjunct lecturer at the University of Indiana School of Public and Environmental Affairs. Since 1991 she has been a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for Aspen Law and Business' Fair Housing and Fair Lending Publications, now a Wolters Kluwer Company. In 2000 she was elected to the boards of the River Network, Second Nature and the Natural Step-US.

Ms. Dillon-Ridgley has appeared on ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, the Today Show, PBS and numerous local news programs in the US. She has also been featured on NHK, Japan; the BBC programs, The Today Show and One Planet; NPR; APR's The Environment Show and Marketplace; Nile TV; Greek Public Television; and in Brazil, Senegal, South Africa and Sweden among other countries.

She has two children. Her daughter, Karima, recently graduated from Harvard University and her son, Dasal, is a student at Morehouse College.