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Appendix C: Biographies
Appendix C: Biographies
Pages 43-54
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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.
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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.
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EDAN DIONNE is director of corporate environmental affairs at IBM Corporation. IBM's Corporate Environmental Affairs staff sets the company's global strategy for and oversees IBM's programs and performance worldwide in environment, energy and climate, product and process environmental stewardship.
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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 governmental procurement in the United States to promote sustainability. The Sustainable Procurement Initiative is developing an organized, marketdriven, 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.
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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.
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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 Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. His work includes valuing the socioeconomic implications of environmental systems and infrastructure and industrial ecology.
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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.
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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 metrics, and corporate and governmental environmental reporting.
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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 multistakeholder 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.
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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.
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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)
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