BETTY A. BARTON

Ms. Barton has been actively engaged in public sector management and policy analysis matters since the mid-1970s. Her work focuses on environmental management policy and on current and emerging international and domestic trends in corporate accountability, sustainability, social responsibility, communications and outreach. Since 1994, she has worked with a major national law firm as a public policy analyst and advisor.

Ms. Barton has been involved in the design and implementation of environmental management, compliance and social accountability programs for several Fortune 100 companies. She provided resource assistance which led to the first ISO 14000 certification of the agricultural operation of a multinational corporation in the world. Her efforts and counsel in social accountability also led to the first ever certification of an agricultural operation to SA 8000, the uniform corporate responsibility standard of Social Accountability International. Prior to that, she conducted preliminary research and analysis on the potential applicability of SA 8000 to non-assembly line, agricultural production and processing operations. That work culminated in her participation in the first pilot "audits" of domestic and international agricultural operations to determine the appropriateness of application of SA 8000 to agribusiness.

On behalf of clients, she has conducted ongoing research on the implications of trends of globalization and consumer-customer expectations in establishing socially and environmentally accountable standards for product generation. As part of these efforts, she keeps abreast of activities involving, and interfaces with, a broad range of non-governmental organizations (NGOs). She has also been closely involved in the development of a corporate sustainability reporting system and an environmental management database.

She has provided resource assistance and participated in several "regulatory reinvention" measures, including the White House initiative, Technology for a Sustainable Future, the US EPA Innovations Task Force and several NEPA streamlining endeavors. She is currently a member of the EPA NACEPT Committee on Compliance Assistance.

In the early 1980s, Ms. Barton was a policy and program consultant in Washington, D.C. where she concentrated on emergency management and human resources matters. Previously, she was employed as a policy analyst for the Alaska House of Representatives where she monitored socioeconomic stipulations for the proposed TransAlaska Natural Gas Pipeline System, investigated rural development issues, investigated criminal justice matters, researched multi-generational programs and housing alternatives, and researched various matters pertaining to public land use and local government structure and service delivery.
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