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.
Books in order of publication:
The Complete Travel Guide to Cuba, (St. Martin’s Press, Winter 1979)
The Cousteau Almanac, (Doubleday, Fall, 1981) (Contributing Editor and Principal Writer)
Juries on Trial: Faces of American Justice, (Dembner Books/W.W. Norton, Fall 1984)
Cluster Mystery: Epidemic and the Children of Woburn, Mass, (C.V. Mosby Company, Fall, 1985)
With These Hands, (Pilgrim Press, Fall, 1986)
His Wife’s Version: The Discoveries of Mrs. Christopher Columbus, (Permanent Press, Fall 1994)
Oakhurst: The Birth and Rebirth of America’s First Golf Course, (Walker and Company, 2002)
Travels in the Time of Trump: With an Updated Prologue – 2018
Pricing the Priceless: The Financial Transformation to Value the Planet, Solve the Climate Crisis, and Protect Our Most Precious Assets – 2023
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