Environmental Defense Fund Welcomes Director, Southeast Clean Energy

(RALEIGH, NC – August 11, 2017) Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) today announced the hire of Dionne Delli-Gatti as Director, Southeast Clean Energy.

Dionne hails from the Environmental Protection Agency, where she served as a senior advisor to the Regional Administrator for the agency’s Southeast Region. As a Government Affairs Specialist and Congressional Liaison, she was part of the Region’s Clean Power Plan and “Making a Visible Difference in Communities” leadership teams. In these roles, she built collaborative relationships with key stakeholders, including members of the business community, elected officials, nonprofits and non-governmental organizations.

Throughout her career, Dionne’s work has focused on environmental issues, ranging from advocacy and sustainability to environmental management and compliance. She held key positions with the City of Dallas, where she helped outline strategy and messaging for Mayor Laura Miller’s clean energy efforts with the Texas Mayor’s Coalition. Here Dionne worked with EDF and other private and public sectors allies to halt the buildout of 11 coal-fired power plants across the state and carried out a citywide environmental management system that became nationally recognized in just over two years.

In her new role at EDF, Dionne will apply her many years of experience in the environmental sector to maintain North Carolina’s clean energy leadership position and promote advanced energy solutions that create jobs, attract investments, cut pollution and power the Southeast’s economy reliably and affordably.