INTER-AMERICAN WORKSHOP ON ENVIRONMENTAL DATA ACCESS

BONNIE C. CARROLL

Ms. Carroll is President and CEO of Information International Associates, Inc. (IIa), an information resource management company whose mission is to support government and industry in managing information as a strategic resource. She is currently a consultant to USGS, supporting the development of the National Biological Information Infrastructure and the White House Science Office's Biodiversity Informatics Working Group to promote interagency coordination of national and international biodiversity informatics initiatives. As the Secretariat Director of CENDI Federal Information Managers Group, an interagency cooperative effort of the STI managers of ten major science and engineering agencies.

Before going into private business, Ms. Carroll worked at the Department of Energy's Office of Scientific and Technical Information as Director of Program Development and International Activities and Deputy and Acting Assistant Manager for Information Services. She spent seven years at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory as Information Center Coordinator, Staff of Program Planning and Analysis, and as Information Specialist and Librarian.

Ms. Carroll is a member of the US National Committee for CODATA and the US representative to International CODATA. She is a past President of the American Society for Information Science (ASIS) and was the 1988 recipient of the ASIS Watson Davis Service Award. In 2004, Ms. Carroll was awarded a Federal Computer Week Federal 100 Award for outstanding contributions to US Federal IT for her national policy and coordination work. She was the 1993-94 Chairperson of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Section on Information, Computing and Communications. She has lectured and published widely on the value of information, information policy and management, and information analysis centers.

Ms. Carroll has a Master of Science degree from Columbia University and a Bachelor's degree from Cornell University.

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