Ms. Catherine Jay Didion Director Network of Woment In Engineering and Science (INWES) Catherine Jay Didion currently is director of the International Network of Women in Engineering and Science (INWES). INWES is a non-profit corporation which was created from an existing network of women engineers and scientists who have organized a series of International Conferences of Women Engineers and Scientists (ICWES) since 1964. From 1990 to July, 2004 Didion was Executive Director of the Association for Women in Science (AWIS) in Washington, D.C. During her tenure, AWIS actively implemented an award winning undergraduate and graduate mentoring program supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the National Science Foundation (NSF). Didion was the Co-Principal Investigator on several grants including the NSF “Una Mano al Futuro: Making Science Accessible to Latino Communities” and “Advancing Women Faculty”. Didion has over fifteen years experience administering nonprofit organizations both in the United States and overseas. She has been an invited speaker at numerous professional meetings, has written about women and science and engineering for The Scientist and Initiatives (the journal of the National Association for Women in Education), and has presented testimony to Congress. She speaks frequently to the media about issues important to women in science and engineering. Didion wrote the bimonthly column, "Women in Science" for the Journal of College Science Teaching from 1992-2004. ” Didion worked closely with the Bush and Clinton Administrations to facilitate the appointment of women scientists to high-level U.S. federal positions. Didion has collaborated extensively with the European Commission’s Women in Science Unit and was an invited speaker to several conferences including “Women in Industry” Conference in Berlin (October 2003) and “Networking the Network” Conference in Brussels (February 2002). Didion headed up the twelve member delegation for AWIS to the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, co-chaired the first science and technology caucus at a U.N. women's conference, and was instrumental in the Beijing+5 meetings. She currently is a member of the South African Reference Group on Women and is a fellow of AWIS (2001) and AAAS (2005).