Bonnie C. Carroll, Founder and President

As Information International Associates' (IIa) founder and president, Bonnie Carroll brings a cross-cutting vision of information management, policy, and technology and a deep commitment to providing excellent service to all of IIa's clients and partners. Her leadership roles outside of the corporate structure put her at the forefront of strategic futures for information management.

In February 2005, Carroll was awarded the Department of Interior's Conservation Service Award for her role in developing the National Biological Information Infrastructure and in other biological informatics efforts. Carroll serves as senior advisor to the U.S. Geological Survey under whose auspices the NBII was developed. She is the planning lead for NBII's Southern Appalachian Information Node (SAIN) and serves as the co-chair for the NBII's National Coalition. Working with the Associate Chief Biologist for Information at USGS, Carroll coordinates the Biodiversity and Ecosystems Work Group under the White House Science Office National Science and Technology Council.

Ms. Carroll is the Executive Director of CENDI, the Federal Scientific and Technical Information (STI) Managers Group, which is an interagency cooperative effort of the STI managers of 13major science and engineering agencies. In addition, she serves as a senior consultant to the Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI). In March 2004, Carroll was named one of Federal Computer Week's Federal 100 for her work through CENDI to harness "the energy of scientists across government and around the world to launch the first government Web portal on science information."

In early 2005, Carroll was named to the Board of Directors of the Washington, D.C. -based Professional Services Council (PSC). She has served on the PSC's Annual Conference Committee and participated in its Privatization Task Force.   She currently serves on its Executive Committee.  Also in 2005, she was named to the editorial board of Information Services and Use, an information science and technology journal aimed at leaders in information management and applications.

From 2006 until the present, Ms. Carroll served as Executive Secretary of the White House National Science and Technology Council’s Interagency Working Group on Digital Data and participated in the development of the key report on digital data issued in January 2009, and entitled, “Harnessing the Power of Digital Data for Science and Society.”

Carroll is a member of the National Academy of Science, National Research Council’s  Board on Research Data and Information, and serves as the U.S. national representative to  International CODATA.

In addition to those mentioned above, Carroll's professional affiliations include current membership on the Board of Directors for the East Tennessee Economic Council. She is a past President of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) and was the 1988 recipient of the ASIS&T Watson Davis Award. She was the 1993-94 Chairperson of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Section on Information, Computing and Communications and continues to serve in various capacities for the Section.

She served on the Board of U.S. Internet, a major Internet Service Provider in the Tennessee Valley until it went public in March 1999. Carroll also is past Chairman of Documentation Abstracts, Inc., which owned Information Science Abstracts. She has lectured and published widely on information futures, the value of information, information policy and management, and information analysis centers.

She has been a consultant to foreign and international organizations including the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the Kingdom of Jordan, UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization), and the International Council for Scientific Information (ICSTI)

Throughout her career, Carroll has helped organize national workshops on the future of scientific and technical information systems, including one on the physical sciences for the Department of Energy's Office of Scientific and Technical Information (DOE/OSTI). She participated in a major assessment of STI in the U.S. for the National Science Foundation, the development of a topography of science and technology information systems for the Library of Congress, and the development of a system to provide input to the DOE's Energy Science and Technology Database. She has been a senior advisor to the NASA STI program, was a consultant to Conservation International on knowledge management, and did a survey for the Department of Commerce to examine U.S. industry requirements for foreign scientific and technical information. .

Before going into private business, Ms. Carroll worked at DOE/OSTI 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. Her professional career began as a reference librarian at Cornell University.

Ms. Carroll has a master of science degree in library and information science from Columbia University and a bachelor's degree from Cornell University.