Hilary French is Director of the Global Governance Project at the Worldwatch Institute, a Washington, DC-based nonprofit research organization that focuses on international environmental and development issues. Ms. French is the author of Vanishing Borders: Protecting the Planet in the Age of Globalization, published by W.W. Norton & Co. in 2000. Vanishing Borders has been widely translated, with international editions available or underway in Brazil, China, India, Italy, Japan, Portugal, Romania, South Korea, and the United Kingdom. Ms. French is a frequent author for Worldwatch, and has also written articles for numerous other publications, including Columbia Journal of World Business, Current History, the International Herald Tribune, Scientific American, and the Humanist.
Ms. French is also currently working as a consultant and special adviser to the United Nations Environment Programme, and is serving as the Class of 1946 Visiting Professor of International Environmental Affairs at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts for the Fall Semester of 2002. She is also cochair of the Alliance for UN Sustainable Development Programs.
Since joining Worldwatch in 1987, Ms. French has held several positions at the Institute, including serving as Vice President for Research from 1996 through 2000. Before then, she worked briefly for Ashoka, a non-profit foundation with programs in the developing world, and has interned with the UN Development Program in the Ivory Coast and with the UN Institute for Disarmament Research in Geneva. She holds degrees from Dartmouth College and from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.
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