Center for International Environmental Law - Board of Trustees

Kenneth Berlin, Chair
Mr. Berlin is the General Counsel of the Coalition for Green Capital.  He is a retired partner and former head of the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom's environmental and climate change practices.  He is former Chairman of the Boards of the Environmental Law Institute, the American Bird Conservancy and Rare and has been on the Board or National Counsel of many environmental groups.  Mr. Berlin is the author of many articles on climate change and lectures widely on these issues.

Diana Ponce-Nava, Vice Chair
Ms. Ponce-Nava's career as a lawyer has been focused on environmental concerns both for her country and internationally.  From 2007 through January 2011, she served as the Environment and Land Use Ombudsperson of Mexico City. From 2005 to 2007 she served as a Regional Advisor for UNEP on Biosafety  and served as a Policy Adviser to the Executive Director of UNEP in Kenya.   Prior to this, she was Deputy Attorney for Natural Resources in Mexico's Federal Attorney's Office for Environment Protection until 2004.  Ms. Ponce-Nava has taught at universities in Mexico and the US and is on the International Board of Advisors at the law school of the University of the Pacific in California.

Dianne Dillon-Ridgley
Ms. Dillon-Ridgley represents the World Y.W.C.A. at U.N. headquarters in New York and has served on numerous U.S. delegations to U.N. global meetings and other international conferences. She is a director at Interface, Inc. and also of the Green Mountain Energy where she chairs the company's environmental integrity committee.

Delphine Djiraibe
Ms. Djiraibe is founder and chief attorney of the Public Interest Law Center.  She has been a relentless organizer of the local efforts and is a spokesperson for those who were afraid to speak out against the human rights and environmental impacts of the Chad-Cameroon oil pipeline project. She was awarded the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award in 2004.

Donald Kaniaru
Mr. Kaniaru is Managing Partner at Kaniaru & Kaniaru Advocates in Nairobi, Kenya and former Director in the Division of Environmental Policy Implementation at UNEP where he worked in different capacities for three decades. Currently he serves as Special Advisor to the Executive Director of UNEP.

Katie Redford
Katharine Redford is the co-Founder and US Office Director of EarthRights International (ERI), a non-profit group of activists and lawyers with expertise in human rights.   She also serves as an adjunct professor of law at both UVA and the Washington College of Law at American University. 

Kathy Robb
[Biography pending]

Scott Stone
Scott J. Stone is an attorney with Hunton&  Williams LLP, practicing international, environmental, and administrative law, particularly climate change, corporate sustainability strategies, energy technology, and international climate and stratospheric ozone negotiations.  He served as chair of the Netherlands' government's Climate Consensus Workshops, and received the U.S. EPA Climate Protection Award and the U.S. EPA Stratospheric Ozone Protection Award.  Scott previously worked for the Institute for Governance&  Sustainable Development (IGSD) and the International Network for Environmental Compliance&  Enforcement (INECE).  He is a graduate of Northwestern University and Washington University School of Law.

Brennan Van Dyke
Director, Resource Mobilization, United Nations Environment Programme. Manages donor relations and corporate-wide outreach to governmental and non-governmental donors.

Terry F. Young
Ms. Young is an Environmental Science Consultant, providing advice regarding ecological risk assessment, water quality, and science policy to the nonprofit and commercial sectors. Major clients include Environmental Defense, for whom Ms. Young manages projects that use economic and legal incentives to decrease agricultural pollution and protect endangered species.

Tatiana R. Zaharchencko, Ph.D.
Dr. Zaharchenko is the Key Legal Expert for the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency on convergence of Ukrainian legislation with EU environmental laws. She has been combining scholarly work with participation in technical assistance projects focused on improving environmental laws and policies in the former Eastern bloc.

Additional Officers:

Carroll Muffett, President
Jeffrey W. Wanha, Director of Finance and Administration
Cameron Aishton, Secretary