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Appendix C
Biographies
Fostering Sustainability Considerations into Public and Private Sector
Procurement Tools and Capabilities
December 7-8, 2011
Washington, D.C.
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION:
PLANNING COMMITTEE, SPEAKERS AND STAFF
DARA O’ROURKE (Committee Chair) is associate professor in the
Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at the
University of California, Berkeley. Previously, he was assistant profes-
sor in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachu-
setts Institute of Technology. Dr. O’Rourke’s research interests include the
political economy and policy aspects global supply chains; governmental
and nongovernmental strategies for monitoring and accountability over
these production systems; and new models of public participation in
environmental and labor policy regulation. He is currently leading a team
of researchers focused on analyzing and improving the quality of infor-
mation available to consumers on the social, environmental, and health
impacts of products and companies; researching the impacts of this infor-
mation on consumer behavior; and developing Web and mobile tools to
deliver better information to consumers at their point-of-decision. He has
recently applied this research to a social venture startup—GoodGuide.
com—which provides information to consumers on the health, environ-
mental and social performance of products and companies. Dr. O’Rourke
previously served on the National Research Council’s Committee Toward
Improved International Labor Standards: Data, Monitoring, and Compli-
ance. He completed his Ph.D. in the Energy and Resources program at the
University of California at Berkeley.
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ALISON KINN BENNETT is the senior advisor for product sustainabil-
ity in EPA’s Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics. She co-founded and
co-leads two influential, cross-media networks within EPA—the Green
Building Workgroup and the Sustainable Products Network—which
bring together policy and technical staff from around the agency in order
to advance holistic, life-cycle based approaches to environmental and
public health protection. Since 2001, Ms. Bennett has served in EPA’s
Environmentally Preferable Purchasing Program, focusing her efforts on
coordinating EPA positions on standards and specifications for greener
building products and construction services. Ms. Bennett is vice chair of
ASTM International’s Sustainability Committee (E60). Ms. Bennett earned
a bachelor’s degree in political science and geography from the University
of California at Berkeley and a master’s degree in urban and environ-
mental planning from the University of Virginia’s School of Architecture.
LEO BONANNI is the founder and CEO of Sourcemap.com, the crowd-
sourced directory of product supply chains and carbon footprints. The
open-source Web site offers tools for companies and individuals to share
information about where things come from, what they are made of, and
their social and environmental impact. Thousands of people have created
sourcemaps of food, furniture, clothing, electronics, and more. Source-
map’s social network technology can also be used internally to help orga-
nizations gather supply chain information for traceability and risk man-
agement. Dr. Bonanni has a Ph.D. from the MIT Media Lab, an M.S. and
a Master of Architecture from MIT, and a B.A. from Columbia University.
He teaches sustainable product design at Parsons and at MIT.
DOMINIC A. BROSE (Staff) is a program officer for the Science and Tech-
nology for Sustainability Program (STS) at the National Academies. Prior
to STS, Dr. Brose was with the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National
Academies where he collaborated on science policy reports sponsored
by the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) addressing the potential for
adverse health effects from exposure of select military personnel to envi-
ronmental contaminants. Previously, he was an environmental scientist
at ToxServices LLC, where he reviewed product formulations for EPA’s
Design for the Environment (DfE) program, which was a third-party
service provided to EPA that evaluated product formulations against
human health and environmental screening criteria. Dr. Brose received
his M.S. and Ph.D. in environmental soil chemistry from the University
of Maryland, and his B.S. in natural resources and environmental science
from Purdue University.
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BRENNAN CONAWAY has served as a contracting professional with
General Services Administration’s (GSA) Federal Acquisition Service
(FAS) since 2004. Currently, Mr. Brennan works within GSA’s Program
Analysis Division, which is actively engaged in initiatives to green the
agency’s operations and supply chain. Brennan was awarded a B.B.A.
from James Madison University and an M.B.A. from George Mason
University.
ALICIA CULVER is the executive director of the Responsible Purchasing
Network, an international network dedicated to advancing sustainable
procurement policies and practices among government agencies and pub-
lic institutions. Ms. Culver has over two decades of experience working
in the sustainable procurement field. She got her start in 1994 evaluating
the federal government’s environmentally preferable purchasing efforts
as Coordinator of the Government Purchasing Project based in Washing-
ton, D.C. She later served as deputy director of the New Jersey Office of
Sustainability and, in 2004, founded the Green Purchasing Institute. Ms.
Culver is currently serving as an advisor to the UN Environment Program
and the World Bank, identifying the best practices for the procurement of
energy-efficient products around the world. She also chairs San Francis-
co’s Sweatfree Procurement Advisory Group. She has co-authored many
publications on sustainable procurement, including Cleaning for Health:
Products and Practices for a Safer Indoor Environment, RPN’s Responsible Pur-
chasing Guide to LED Lighting, and Buying Smart: Experiences of Municipal
Green Purchasing Pioneers.
EDAN DIONNE is director of corporate environmental affairs at IBM
Corporation. IBM’s Corporate Environmental Affairs staff sets the com-
pany’s global strategy for and oversees IBM’s programs and performance
worldwide in environment, energy and climate, product and process
environmental stewardship. She joined IBM in 1983 as environmental
engineer and became part of IBM’s corporate environmental affairs staff
in 1990. Prior to assuming her current position, her experience included
managing a wide range of environmental and climate protection pro-
grams, partnership with others in industry, the USEPA and nongovern-
mental organizations. She assumed her present position in 2002. Ms.
Dionne has a master of science degree in chemical engineering.
JON EISENBERG (Staff) is director of the Computer Science and Tele-
communications Board of the National Academies. At CSTB, he has also
been study director for more than a dozen major studies, including a series
of reports exploring Internet and broadband policy and networking and
communications technologies. From 1995 to 1997 he was a AAAS Science,
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Engineering, and Diplomacy Fellow at the U.S. Agency for International
Development, where he worked on technology transfer and information
and telecommunications policy issues. Dr. Eisenberg received his Ph.D. in
physics from the University of Washington in 1996 and a B.S. in physics
with honors from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1988.
NANCY GILLIS directs the GSA Federal Supply Chain Emissions Pro-
gram Management Office (PMO), which is tasked to create and promote
a more sustainable federal supply chain. She chairs the Section 13 Inter-
agency Working Group, addressing the technical and policy recommenda-
tions outlined in the EO 13514 Vendor and Contractor Emissions report,
and manages the GreenGov Supply Chain Partnership, a public/private
collaboration seeking to reduce environmental impacts throughout the
supply chain. Ms. Gillis has spent the majority of her career in the area
of sustainability and has worked internationally on biodiversity, supply
chain, economic development, and technology innovation projects. Ms.
Gillis received her graduate degree from Georgetown University and is a
proud alumnus of the Santa Fe Institute Complexity program.
STEPHEN GORDON directs the Graduate Certificate Program in Public
Procurement and Contract Management in the Department of Urban
Studies and Public Administration at Old Dominion University in Nor-
folk, Virginia. Experienced as a manager, leader, thinker, and innovator
in the not-for-profit, for-profit, and public sectors, Dr. Gordon teaches
graduate classes in public procurement and contract management and
public policy. Dr. Gordon’s primary areas of research interest include
performance-based contracting, sustainable procurement, out-sourcing
and in-sourcing of public services, and relationships in an intergovern-
mental and multi-sector environment. Throughout his career, Dr. Gordon
has contributed to the advancement of the practice of governmental pro-
curement, especially at the state and local levels. He co-chairs the Steering
Group of the Sustainable Procurement Initiative, a group of professionals
with differing but complementary expertise and perspectives that came
together in 2010 to jointly focus on cost-effectively organizing govern-
mental procurement in the United States to promote sustainability. The
Sustainable Procurement Initiative is developing an organized, market-
driven, non-regulatory strategy involving performance-based acquisition,
contract incentives, large scale cooperative contracts, and information
sharing and networking to dramatically increase sustainable purchases
and contracts.
PETER GRAF (Committee Member) is chief sustainability officer and
executive vice president of sustainability solutions with SAP, where he
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is responsible for developing sustainable solutions that best serve the
needs of SAP’s global customers, while also driving sustainable opera-
tions within SAP. At SAP, Dr. Graf has held various management roles.
Previously, he was the executive vice president of solution marketing at
SAP. In this role, he was responsible for shaping the company’s industry
solution, application, and platform strategy. Dr. Graf holds a master’s
degree in computer science and economics as well as a Ph.D. in artificial
intelligence.
STEVEN J. KEMPF was appointed commissioner for the U.S. General
Services Administration’s Federal Acquisition Service (FAS), effective
July 10, 2010. In this capacity, he sets strategic direction and oversees the
delivery of over $50 billion of best-value products, services, and solutions
to federal customers, allowing them to effectively and efficiently achieve
their missions. He also held this position in an acting capacity from April
through June 2010, and was the deputy commissioner prior to that. Mr.
Kempf has held multiple leadership positions throughout FAS and its pre-
decessor organizations. He served as the acting FAS deputy commissioner
from October 2008 through January 2009. In February 2008, he was named
assistant commissioner for the FAS Office of Acquisition Management,
where he was responsible for overall acquisition policy planning and
coordination. Mr. Kempf holds a B.A. in history from Marquette Univer-
sity in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and a law degree and an M.B.A. from the
George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
STEPHEN LEEDS1 was appointed as senior counselor to the adminis-
trator for the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) on August 10,
2009. As senior counselor, Mr. Leeds advises and assists the administra-
tor on a variety of GSA’s enterprise initiatives. He also coordinates the
activities of the regional administrators. Mr. Leeds is the senior account-
able official for recovery, placing him in charge of the agency’s efforts to
implement the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. He is also the
agency senior sustainability officer, leading GSA’s efforts under Executive
Orders 13423 and 13514 to fulfill GSA’s responsibilities and opportunities
under those EOs as well as assisting GSA’s federal agency customers with
solutions to help them integrate sustainability throughout their agencies
and achieve their sustainability goals. Mr. Leeds graduated from Michi-
gan State University with a B.A. in business and received a J.D. from the
University of Michigan.
1 Senior Counselor to the Administrator as of December 7, 2011.
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PATRICK MALLET (Committee Member) is founder and credibility
director with ISEAL Alliance, the global association for social and envi-
ronmental standards. At ISEAL Alliance, Mr. Mallet is responsible for
managing the development of consensus-based codes of good practice
for the effective operation of voluntary standards systems. In 2004, he led
the development of the ISEAL Code of Good Practice for Setting Social
and Environmental Standards which has since become the normative
reference point for credible standard-setting practices. Prior to founding
the ISEAL Alliance in 2000, Mr. Mallet managed an international program
in certification and marketing of non-timber forest products and was
lead author on the multi-stakeholder Conservation Principles for Coffee
Production. He is past board chair of the Certified Organic Associations
of British Columbia. He earned his degrees at Dalhousie and McGill Uni-
versities in eastern Canada.
H. SCOTT MATTHEWS (Committee Member) is the research director of
the Green Design Institute and professor in the Department of Civil and
Environmental Engineering and the Department of Engineering and Pub-
lic Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. His work includes valuing the
socioeconomic implications of environmental systems and infrastructure
and industrial ecology. He focuses on using the Internet to facilitate envi-
ronmental life-cycle assessment of products and processes, estimating and
tracking carbon emissions across the supply chain, and the sustainability
of product systems and infrastructure as connected to public policy. Dr.
Matthews previously served on the National Research Council Commit-
tee on Health, Environmental, and Other External Costs and Benefits of
Energy Production and Consumption. He holds a Ph.D. in economics
from Carnegie Mellon University.
LYNETTE I. MILLETT (Staff) is associate director at the Computer Sci-
ence and Telecommunications Board (CSTB), National Research Council
of the National Academies. She currently directs several CSTB projects,
including an investigation into foundational science in cybersecurity and
an examination of opportunities for computing research to help meet
sustainability challenges. She served as the study director for the CSTB
reports Strategies and Priorities for Information Technology at the Centers for
Medicare and Medicaid Services and Social Security Administration Electronic
Service Provision: A Strategic Assessment. Ms. Millett’s portfolio includes
significant portions of CSTB’s recent work on software, identity systems,
and privacy. She directed, among other projects, those that produced
Software for Dependable Systems: Sufficient Evidence?, an exploration of
fundamental approaches to developing dependable mission-critical sys-
tems; Biometric Recognition: Challenges and Opportunities, a comprehen-
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sive assessment of biometric technology; Who Goes There? Authentication
Through the Lens of Privacy, a discussion of authentication technologies
and their privacy implications; and IDs—Not That Easy: Questions About
Nationwide Identity Systems, a post-9/11 analysis of the challenges pre-
sented by large-scale identity systems. She has an M.Sc. in computer
science from Cornell University and a B.A. in mathematics and computer
science from Colby College.
KAREN MORAN is currently the team lead for Pollution Prevention at
Headquarters Defense Logistics Agency. She has over 30 years of experi-
ence in Environmental, Safety, and Occupational Health management
with the Department of Defense. Her assignments have included instal-
lations, Headquarters for Major Commands & Components, and the
Pentagon. She holds B.S. and M.S. degrees from the College of William
and Mary in Virginia and the University of Southern California.
MARINA S. MOSES (Staff) serves as the director for the Science and
Technology for Sustainability Program (STS) in the Division of Policy and
Global Affairs of the National Academies. In this capacity, she also serves
as the director of the Roundtable on Science and Technology for Sus-
tainability. Under her leadership, the STS program issued the consensus
report Sustainability and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and
has recently undertaken the multi-sponsored study Sustainability Link-
ages in the Federal Government. Prior to joining the National Academies,
Dr. Moses served on the faculty of the George Washington University
School of Public Health and Health Services in the Department of Envi-
ronmental and Occupational Health, where she also directed the Doctoral
Program and was the practicum coordinator for the graduate program.
Dr. Moses was the recipient of the 2005 Pfizer Scholar in Public Health
Award and has worked in emergency preparedness and communication
with communities on public health issues. Previously, Dr. Moses held
senior scientific positions in the Environmental Management Division of
the U.S. Department of Energy, where she worked on the development
of a qualitative framework to assess hazardous and nuclear waste risks,
and served as the senior health risk assessor in the New york City office
of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Superfund Program. Dr.
Moses received her Bachelor of Arts (Chemistry) and her Master of Sci-
ence (Environmental Health Sciences) degrees from Case Western Reserve
University. She received her doctorate of public health (Environmental
Health Sciences) from Columbia University School of Public Health.
TERESA NEAL (Committee Member) is senior purchasing manager at
Church & Dwight, Co. Inc. Formerly, Dr. Neal was the product marketing
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director for SciQuest’s Commercial sector, where she was responsible for
product strategy and driving growth in the emerging commercial markets
and served as SciQuest’s thought leader for Green Procurement. Before
joining SciQuest, she was a senior marketing manager for North America
and Latin America at Novozymes, where she positioned enzymes as
Green ingredients in the household care industry. She has an M.B.A. from
the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, and a Ph.D. in bioinorganic
chemistry from the University of Notre Dame.
CHRIS O’BRIEN joined American University in 2009 as the university’s
first director of sustainability. He is responsible for sustainability policy,
planning, outreach, and implementation. His work includes leading the
university’s commitment to achieving climate-neutrality by the year 2020,
as well as building and operation green buildings, eliminating waste
sent to landfill, and greening the university’s procurement. Previously,
he directed the Responsible Purchasing Network at the Center for a New
American Dream, and earlier served as Managing Director of the Green
Business Network and the Fair Trade Federation. He is treasurer of the
Fair Trade Resource Network and co-owns the Seven Bridges Organic
Brewing Supply Cooperative. He serves on the Electronic Products Envi-
ronmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT) Advisory Board, the Green Advan-
tage Board, and the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in
Higher Education’s STARS Steering Committee. In 2006, Chris authored
the award-winning book Fermenting Revolution: How to Drink Beer and Save
the World (New Society Publishers). He has a bachelor’s degree in liberal
arts from Penn State University and a master’s degree in science and
technology studies from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
ANASTASIA O’ROURKE is a co-founder of Big Room Inc.—the creators
of Ecolabel Index (www.ecolabelindex.com), and a proposal for a new top
level domain (www.doteco.org). Big Room also provides advisory services
to clients such as the GSA, UNEP, and FedEx Corporation. She co-chairs
the Green Products Roundtable, a multi-stakeholder group of corpora-
tions, nonprofits, certifiers, and government who are working together
to find ways to help bring clarity to the green marketplace. Dr. O’Rourke
is an expert in designing information platforms that facilitate the growth
of green markets and in assessing sustainability of companies, from her
recent work on green products and certification systems, to prior work
on cleantech venture investments, socially responsible investment met-
rics, and corporate and governmental environmental reporting. She has
a Ph.D. from yale University and an M.Sc. from Lund University, both
in environmental management. She has lived and worked in Australia,
Sweden, France, and the United States, where she currently resides.
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EDWARD RAU serves as chair of the U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services Sustainability Innovations Working Group at the
National Institutes of Health (NIH). He has a 30-year tour of active duty
as an Environmental Health Officer in the U.S. Public Health Service
Commissioned Corps, continuing in civilian service with the NIH. He
has served initially as chemical waste manager, advanced to chief of haz-
ardous and solid waste management and special assistant to the director,
Division Environmental Protection, NIH. Captain Rau has a bachelor’s
degree in biology and an M.S. in environmental and occupational health
sciences from California State University at Northridge, and a graduate
certificate in hazardous materials management from the University of
California, Davis.
DYLAN RICHMOND (Staff) is a research assistant for the Science and
Technology for Sustainability Program (STS) at the National Academies.
Before joining the Academies in the fall of 2010, he attended Georgetown
University and graduated with a B.A. in economics in May 2010. While
at Georgetown, Mr. Richmond was an editor for The Georgetown Voice.
JONATHAN RIFKIN is a special assistant to the director for the District
of Columbia Office of Contracting and Procurement (OCP). His work in
Green Procurement began approximately four years ago when he was
given the opportunity to work for OCP. He has spent the last year devel-
oping a green purchasing program within the District, which continues
to mature. He also serves on the District’s “DC Green Team,” which
is the District’s unified effort to enact sustainable practices across the
government. Most recently, he was appointed to serve as liaison to the
District’s Mayor’s Sustainability Initiative, which will establish a compre-
hensive sustainable strategy for the District for the approaching decades.
In addition, Jonathan serves on the National Association of State Procure-
ment Officers (NASPO) Green Purchasing Work Group, which works to
identify and share Green Purchasing best practices with its membership;
and the Keystone Group’s Green Products Roundtable, which is a multi-
stakeholder group dedicated to bringing clarity to the green marketplace
and endorsing practices that simplify and maximize green purchasing
efforts for Institutional Purchasers. He is fascinated by the complexities of
the green marketplace and takes enormous satisfaction from the positive
impact that environmentally preferable purchasing can have on his local
and global world.
JOSH SAUNDERS is a nationally recognized expert on product-level
sustainability and environmental certifications. Joshua is the co-founder
and CEO of Greencurement, a company that provides environmental
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information for institutional purchasing. At Greencurement, Joshua
works with leading organizations to identify green products and make
smarter purchasing decisions. Prior to Greencurement, Joshua was the
senior director of business development for GoodGuide, where he was
responsible for partnerships, alliances, and commercial sales. Joshua has
also worked closely with a number of environmental standard setting,
ecolabeling, and certification programs across a wide range of industries
from electronics to building products. Joshua was a co-founder of UL
Environment, a subsidiary of Underwriters Laboratories, where he led
global operations and oversaw the environmental claims verification and
sustainable products certification programs. He has been heavily involved
in many sustainability initiatives, including participating in past round-
tables with the National Academies and the Keystone Center as well as
being a contributor to NPR’s Marketplace Report. Mr. Saunders holds a
bachelor’s degree in electrical and computer engineering and an M.B.A.
in finance and entrepreneurship.
YALMAZ SIDDIqUI is Office Depot’s senior director of environmental
strategy. He is responsible for setting strategy, defining metrics, and driv-
ing integration of a wide range of environmental programs into the global
organization. Under his leadership, Newsweek magazine ranked Office
Depot in 2011 as the #1 greenest large retailer and the #8 greenest large
U.S. company overall. Mr. Siddiqui is on the Board of Advisors of EPEAT;
is the co-chair of the Green Products Roundtable, a multi-stakeholder
group working on defining ‘green products’ for institutional purchasers;
and was the only private sector recipient of the Responsible Purchasing
Network’s 2009 Responsible Purchaser of the year Award. He holds a
master of philosophy in environment & development from the University
of Cambridge, where his thesis focused on industrial ecology, life-cycle
analysis, and bio-mimicry. He also has a bachelor of commerce degree
from McGill University in Canada.
JOSH SILVERMAN is the director of the Office of Sustainability Support
at the U.S. Department of Energy. His office provides training, technical
assistance, and corporate reporting and analysis support to help DOE
achieve its sustainability goals. He engages in a broad spectrum of activi-
ties within DOE, including sustainable acquisition, sustainable buildings,
green electronics, and toxic chemical reduction. He recently received an
Achievement Award from the Secretary of Energy for helping DOE reduce
fugitive emissions of potent greenhouse gases. Dr. Silverman joined DOE
in 2000, after completing a dissertation at Carnegie Mellon University on
environment, safety, and health practices in nuclear weapons production.
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LORRIE VOGEL, general manager of Considered Design, Nike’s sustain-
able design team, seeks to intertwine design innovation and conservation.
Through Considered Design, Ms. Vogel’s focus is to design out waste,
chemicals and energy, and design in new materials and approaches. Prior
to becoming the general manager, she was the innovation director for
Nike Footwear, Apparel, and Equipment. Her innovative thinking has led
to several new product technologies and patents. Her passion for design,
innovation and sustainability together brought her to the role as a leader
in bringing sustainability to all facets of Nike products. With an industrial
design degree from Syracuse University, Ms. Vogel has become a lead-
ing expert in design innovation. She has worked for many companies in
product design and research and development for Texas Instruments and
S.G. Hauser, a top design consulting firm in Los Angeles. In early 2007
Ms. Vogel was named to Fast Company’s Fast 50, the magazine’s annual
compilation of innovative companies and the “incubators of genius.” Her
team’s innovative work around sustainable design has been recognized
in several publications: Strategies for Sustainable Design (Adam Worbach),
Green to Gold (Dan Esty), and as a M.I.T. Case Study.
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