Center for International Environmental Law - Board of Trustees

Dianne Dillon-Ridgley, Chair
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.

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.  

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.

Tony LaVina
Biography pending.

David Mattingly
As Director of Programs for the Fund for Global Human Rights, Mr. Mattingly is responsible for oversight, coordination, and integration of human rights grant-making in six regions around the world. Since joining the Fund in 2005, Mr. Mattingly has managed grants programs for frontline groups based in Latin America, North Africa, and West Africa; coordinated an initiative to strengthen the capacity of Mexican activists to promote public policies that expand human rights protections; and developed the Fund's grant-making strategy to challenge rights abuses related to sexual orientation and gender identity.

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. 

Terry F. Young, Ph.D.
Dr. Young is an Environmental Science Consultant who provides advice regarding ecological risk assessment, water quality, and science policy to the nonprofit and commercial sectors.  She currently holds a gubernatorial appointment to the San Francisco Regional Water Quality Control Board and is the Board’s Vice-Chair.  Dr. Young also has served as a member of the U.S. EPA’s Science Advisory Board, on committees of the National Research Council, and boards of environmental organizations.   

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