Paula DiPerna

Paula DiPerna is a writer and frequent media and conference speaker on a variety of subjects. She has served as President of the Joyce Foundation, as well as Vice President for Recruitment and Public Policy at the Chicago Climate Exchange, which pioneered emissions trading and environmental markets worldwide, as well as President of CCX International. Prior to these positions, she served as writer and Vice President for International Affairs for the Cousteau Society, whose President was explorer and filmmaker, Jacques-Yves Cousteau.

While at the Cousteau Society, DiPerna wrote and co-produced numerous documentary films and traveled extensively around the world with the famous vessel "Calypso" and its expedition teams, including throughout the Amazon regions of South America. DiPerna is currently a columnist for Women Advisors Forum and Forbes.com, as well as Special Advisor to the Carbon Disclosure Project, which administers an annual questionnaire on behalf of major investors and asset managers to businesses and corporations regarding their environmental risk.

In addition to her environmental career, DiPerna is a prolific writer, and has been published in a number of major newspapers and magazines. Her book, "Cluster Mystery: Epidemic and the Children of Woburn, Mass." was the first book to be written about an infamous leukemia cluster possibly associated with contaminated drinking water. DiPerna has written other non-fiction books, including "Oakhurst: The Birth and Rebirth of America's First Golf Course" (2002).

Filmography Co-Director and Writer, Kuwait: War and Environment; Green Cross International Writer, Palawan: The Last Refuge Co-Producer and Writer, Nauru: The Island Planet Co-Producer and Writer, Outrage at Valdez Writer, Western Australia: Out West, Down Under Writers, Tasmania: Awakening Island and Fortunes in the Sea Writer, Lilliput in Antarctica Writer, Australia: The Last Barrier Writer and Associate Producer, New Zealand: The Land of the Long White Cloud Writer and Associate Producer, New Zealand: The Smoldering Sea Writer and Production Coordinator, Cuba: Waters of Destiny