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• Conducts research aimed at quantifying the damage caused by pests to the forests of Canada, and
• Researches genetic resistance to pests.

• B.Sc.F., 1974, University of Chile; M.Sc. (Pest Management), 1977, and Ph.D. (forest entomology), 1980, Simon Fraser University, Canada

• Canadian Forest Service Merit Award. 2006. In recognition of outstanding contribution to the book “The mountain pine beetle: A synthesis of biology, management and impacts on Lodgepole pine.
• Canadian Forest Service Merit Award. 2005. In recognition of outstanding contribution to international partnerships
• Canadian Institute of Forestry Scientific Achievement Award. 2001; awarded in recognition of significant advances in Canadian Forest Research.
• Forestry Canada Merit Award for Scientific Excellence, 1995.
• Forestry Canada Science and Technology Award, 1991.
• Scientific Achievement Award, International Union of Forestry Research Organizations (IUFRO), 1990.

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He is presently the Assistant Director (Economic Information and Market Intelligence), International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) charged with the principal task of enhancing ITTO’s economic and statistical information system covering relevant aspects of the tropical and non-tropical timber economies and improving market intelligence with a view to promoting greater transparency in the international timber market and promoting the expansion and diversification of international trade in tropical timber from legal and sustainable sources as well as non-discriminatory timber trade practices.

Education - Master in Philosophy - Law degree- Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (Business administration)- International marketing at Insead (1988) Having 20 years of experience of international management in developing countries, I have chosen in 2006, to bring my experience to the forestry industry in Africa and more particularly to help it to fully commit to sustainable management

o 2006 to date: President of IFIA (Interafrican Forest Industries Association): a Federation that brings together all professional associations in the forestry sector in the Congo Basin Region and West Africa. Activity summary : • representing the private sector • promoting sustainable management certification,• promoting tropical woods on international markets and high value processing in Africa.

o 2004-2005: Consultant on economic crisis in emerging markets; publication of a book on “ how to manage companies during economic crisis on emerging markets”- (Institut de l’Entreprise); Lectures and conferences on this topic (HEC- Sciences PO)o 1997- 2004: International manager- management board member of ELF Lubricants , a subsidiary of ELF Aquitaine, taken over in 1998 by TOTAL . Activity summary: Sales of US$ 200 M, 800 emp. Overseeing profit centers in Latin America, China, India, South-east Asia, USA. o 1991-1997: General manager of ELF Lubricantes Mexico in Guadalajara (Mexico) – Sales of US$ 50 M; 260 emp. o 1985-1990: General manager of an SME specialized in floor and wall coverings. Main activity: Turnaround of an SME that came out of receivership in 1985 – sales of US$ 10 M o 1981-1985: Executive in charge of management control in emerging countries for ELF (Oil Industry) o 1979- 1981 : Military Service in Czechoslovaquia, serving in the French Embassy’s trade department.

He is the Deputy Executive Director of the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO). He also serves as the Coordinator of the CPF Global Forest Expert Panels (GFEP), a joint initiative of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests. He studied forestry and law and is an expert on international forest-related policy processes and on how to work effectively at the science-policy interface.

For 29 years Campos has carried out research and project development in forest management and policy, territorial rural development, ecosystem approaches for natural resource management and agriculture, integrated watershed management, monitoring and evaluation of sustainability, and payment for ecosystem services. He has published more than100 publications on those subjects.

As director general of CATIE (Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center), he oversees some 100 research and development projects in 17 countries that promote competitive and sustainable agriculture and natural resource management aimed at reducing rural poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean. Previously he was director of CATIE’s Department of Natural Resources and Environment and held the Latin American Chair for Forest Landscape Management. He led the Natural Forests Silviculture Project with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation from 1993 to 1999.

Campos is a member of the faculty of CATIE’s Graduate School and adjunct professor of the Forestry Department at the University of Laval, Canada, and since 2008 he has served as member of the External Advisory Group for the World Bank’s Forest Strategy. From 2003 to 2008 he served as president of the Iberoamerican Network of Model Forests.

He holds a doctorate in forestry sciences from the University of Oxford in England and a master’s in natural resource management from CATIE, earlier graduating as a forestry engineer from the University of São Paulo in Brazil.

She is currently acting Head of the International forest affairs Unit of the Italian State Forest Service (CFS), being the national contact person for various international forest policy initiatives and contributing to their national coordination and implementation. Between 1994 and 2002 she has been working in the Italian State Forest Service dealing with EU forest regulations and broader international and EU forest policies as those related to CBD, FAO, UNFF, MCPFE and G8. Between 2002 and 2006 she has been working as END at Brussels in the European Commission – DG Environment, focussing on forest fire prevention, forest health and Mediterranean forestry. As a forest communicator she keeps regular contacts with the most relevant international and national forest organizations and forest magazines/research centres. Author of some 65 scientific publications, her background is a Degree in forestry and a MSc in Environmental Sciences.

He has a Masters degree in Forestry and a Masters in System analysis. He has been servicing as Senior Forest Policy Officer at the UNFF Secretariat in New York over the last years dealing with policies relevant to sustainable forest management. Prior to his current assignment he led the State Forest Service of Hungary for several years and later the Department of Natural Resources. In these capacities he represented his country is several international fora and was actively involved in previous World Forestry Congresses.

He currently serves as President of Sylva-World for Development and the Protection of Forests and the Environment, an international NGO, based in Casablanca, Morocco. He is also member of IUFRO Board, and Coordinator of IUFRO Division 4.02.01 Research Group “Data Collection in the Tropics”. Mohammed is a senior forester, graduate from the French school of waters, forests and rural engineering (ENGREF), in Nancy, France, and from the National Engineering school of waters and forests (ENFI), in Salé, Morocco. He is holder of a PhD in Plant Biology/Forest Ecology (Henri Poincaré University, Nancy, France), a PhD in Economics (Montesquieu University, Bordeaux, France), an MSc in Enterprise Administration (IAE, Nancy, France), and an MSc in Management (ISCAE/CSG, Casablanca, Morocco). Mohammed earned postdoctoral Certificates in Statistics (University of Gembloux, Belgium), in Forest Inventory (IFN, Paris, France), in Agroforestry (ICRAF, Nairobi, Kenya) and in Natural Resources Management (University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA). He worked for over 25 years with Morocco’s governmental Department of Forests and Desertification Control, as Head of the National Forest Inventory Service in Rabat, and as Head of regional Forest Service in various provinces, throughout the country. He spent 5 years of work with FAO as International Forestry Expert in Yemen ("Forest Development in the Republic of Yemen" project), and in Jordan ("Forests and Food Security in the Mediterranean and the Middle East Region" project). Between 2005 and 2007, he was the Forest Director of the Biodiesel Project, with Mosmart Morocco 2 company, in Morocco. Mohammed has been actively involved in the design, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of various development projects at international level (FAO, UNCCD, UNFCCC, GEF, World Bank, IUFRO), regional level (MEDFOREX, EFIMED, Mediterranean region) and at Moroccan level (Afforestation National Plan, National Plan to Combat Desertification, National Fuel wood Consumption, etc.). He contributed significantly to the forest and biodiversity assessment, conservation and development, and to combating desertification, forest degradation, deforestation and climate change, in Morocco, the Mediterranean region, the Middle East, and at the international scale. He also teached Statistics and Mathematics as a visiting Professor in various universities, schools and institutes in Morocco, and participated to the training of hundreds of engineers, technicians, extensionists, researchers and community leaders in Morocco, Yemen and Jordan, on Applied Statistics, Experimental design, Forest inventory, Forest management, Afforestation, Agroforestry, Watershed and Range management, Sand dune fixation and Desertification control. In these roles, he authored 2 university-level books (Statistics and Mathematics), 4 Manuals (Afforestation Techniques; Design and Management of Forestry Nurseries; Forest Seeds’ Collection, Handling and Treatment; Basics of Statistical Experimental Design for Researchers), and co-authored 2 books (Valuing Forests: Towards the Total Economic Value. Ed. Merlo & Croitoru. CABI-Publishing, 2005 www.cabi-publishing.org/bookshop/BookDisplay.asp?SubjectArea=&Subject=&PID=1859; and Cork Oak Woodlands on the Edge: Ecology, Adaptive Management, and Restoration. J. Aronson, J.S. Pereira, and J.G. Pausas (editors). Island Press, 2009 http://www.uv.es/jgpausas/corkoak.htm); and one encyclopedia (Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems. EOLSS Publishers Co. Ltd, 2002, http://www.eolss.net/E.aspx). He published over 100 research papers (www.geocities.com/ellatifi/Publicall.htm). In 1991, Mohammed was awarded a USAID Certificate of Recognition for having successfully completed participation in a technical cooperation program at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, in the field of "Management of Natural Resources"; in 1995, he was awarded a IUFRO President’s Certificate of Appreciation, in recognition of his “Outstanding Leadership in the area of Mediterranean Forest and Shrub Ecosystems”, and he was made Honorary Member of the “Waalan” Rural Community, in Yemen (Sana’a Governorate), in recognition of his “outstanding work for the community in the field of Integrated rural Development”, including watershed management, erosion control, creation of agroforestry systems, wells digging, creation of irrigation networks and a forestry nursery. In 2008, he has been chosen “Man of the Year 2008, Science”, by the American Biographical Institute (ABI: www.abiworldwide.com), Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. Mohammed is fluent in English, Arabic, French and Spanish.

Note Bene: Full information on SYLVA-WORLD for Development and the Protection of Forests and the Protection of Forests and the Environment, are available at the following website: www.geocities.com/sylva.world/Sylvaeng.htm .

Monsieur Jean-Louis Kérouac est ingénieur forestier et détient une maîtrise en sciences. Il est présentement vice-président foresterie de Tecsult Inc., une société d’ingénierie du Québec très active sur la scène internationale. Depuis mars 2008, Tecsult fait partie du groupe AECOM, une des plus importantes société d’ingénierie au monde qui regroupe plus de 43000 employés. Monsieur Kérouac a agi comme Secrétaire général du XII Congrès forestier mondial qui s’est tenu à Québec en septembre 2003 et qui a réuni plus de 4000 participants en provenance de plus de 140 pays et territoires. Expert en foresterie de réputation nationale et internationale, Monsieur Kérouac dispose d’une expérience de plus de 30 années comme gestionnaire d’entreprises et de projets d’envergure. Il a dirigé des projets en foresterie en Afrique, en Asie et en Amérique du Sud, entre autres en Éthiopie, en Argentine et au Bengladesh. Son expertise s’étend à l’environnement, à la transformation du bois, à l’amélioration des scieries et à l’aménagement forestier. Au Canada, il a notamment participé ou dirigé des programmes et des études d’inventaire forestier, d’impact environnemental et d’évaluation d’investissements.

The International Family Forestry Alliance, IFFA, is the voice of family forestry worldwide. The IFFA’s objective is to promote the development of family forestry and advocate supportive policies. IFFA will provide recommendations to international forest policy processes and provide a forum for exchange of experience, ideas and information. The members are forest owners' organisations representing more than 25 million private forest owners worldwide. IFFA is working in close cooperation with the Global Alliance of Community Forestry, representing forestry with the same values and visions, but who manage their forest without individual ownership rights.

Ivar Legallais-Korsbakken is the chair of IFFA. He is an economist, specialist in econometrics, from the University of Oslo, Norway. He has worked as journalist, editor and publisher, as advisor in ministries and consultant in strategic communication. He has work as manager and advisor in organisations and in now a special adviser in the Norwegian Forest Owners' Federation and advisor in the European Forest Owners' Federation, CEPF. He is national secretary for Norway in the world's largest forest certification system PEFC.

Director: Environment and Development Group

International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

Stewart Maginnis is the Director of the Environment and Development Group at IUCN headquarters, with responsibility for Ecosystem Management, Forests, Water, Climate Change, Livelihoods, Gender and Social Policy. He also retains his previous position as Head of the Forest Conservation Programme.

Stewart has twenty-four years of programme and policy experience in forest conservation and management. Prior to joining IUCN in December 2001, he worked with the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) for three years as Deputy Director of the International Forest Programme. He has an extensive field-based track record in Tanzania, Sudan, Ghana, Costa Rica and Mexico, and has also worked as a forest manager for the private-sector in the United Kingdom.

He holds a M.Sc. in Forestry and its relation to Land Use from the University of Oxford and has been a study fellow at the University of Manchester. He has a keen interest in the linkage between forest conservation and livelihood security of the rural poor, the practical application of ecosystem approaches and on the role of multi-stakeholder processes in forest governance reform.

Yam Malla’s Summary Biodata for FAO XIII WFC Advisory Committee – Mar 2009

Dr. Yam Malla has over 25 years of work experience in the fields of natural resources, environment, and rural development in Asia and Africa. He is the Executive Director of the Bangkok-based Regional Community Forestry Training Center for Asia and the Pacific. Prior to joining RECOFTC in November 2002, he was working for the University of Reading (UK) as a Lecturer and Director of Masters Program for Participatory Forest Management and Extension. Before that he worked in Nepal as a Rural Development Advisor to an Australian government supported community forestry project, as Extension Specialist to an USAID funded resource conservation and utilization project in Nepal, and as Head of Forestry and Soil Conservation Division at the DFID supported Pakhribas Agriculture Centre.

After joining RECOFTC Dr. Malla initiated a Regional Community Forestry Forum for Asia and led the organization to building a global coalition partnership of Rights and Resources Initiative with nine other organizations operating at global, regional and national levels, and in forming a Civil Society Advisory Group of the International Tropical Timber Organization. He is a Board member of the Rights and Resources Group – a Washington based NGO and a member of the World Bank’s External Advisory Group on Forests.

Yam, who has published materials widely on community forestry issues, has a degree in Science (India), a Diploma in Forestry (UK), Masters in Agriculture Extension (UK) and PhD in Social Forestry (Australia).

Ms. Maplesden is currently the Statistician, International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO), and is responsible for the organisation’s statistical data collection, analysis, dissemination and training activities, including the preparation and publication of the ITTO Annual Review and Assessment of the Tropical Timber Market Situation. Prior to her appointment to ITTO in 2007, she had a 27-year career as a research scientist and research manager at Scion New Zealand, specializing in wood products trade and market analyses, forest sector and industry economics, consumer research and foresight studies.

As the General Coordinator of Education, Capacity Building, Technological Development and Science Dissemination, Alfredo Mayen is the national leader of the Mexican Government´s project on training, technology transfer and forestry education; he coordinates a team of 115 people and manages an annual budget of 7.5 million dollars.

With more than 15 years of experience in sustainable development, Alfredo has particularly stand out in the following areas:

- Human development and sustainable forest management in Mexico

- Sustainable technology transfer by ecosystem

- Design and creation of more than 480 learning products

- Design and follow up of international forestry projects

- Direction of the national forestry training program

Moreover, Alfredo currently holds the Administrative Secretariat of a trust created between the National Forestry Commission (CONAFOR) and the National Council on Science and Technology (CONACYT), which was created in order to promote research, development and technology transfer to increase competitive level in the forest sector. The CONAFOR-CONACYT trust currently has a portfolio of 251 projects with a total investment of 17.5 million dollars.

Alfredo also coordinates a national research database that includes 452 projects developed by different universities and research institutions, with different sources of funding.

Along his career, Alfredo has shown great commitment with his country and with every project he is involve in, as well as with the people, rural communities and inhabitants of forested areas he works with.

Peter Mayer holds a master’s degree in forestry, a post graduate diploma in political science and a Ph.D. in forest policy. After being the Head of the Liaison Unit for the MCPFE (Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe) for five years Peter Mayer was appointed as Executive Director of IUFRO (International Union of Forest Research Organizations) in 2003. The main responsibilities include shaping and implementing the global strategic direction of IUFRO, supervising IUFRO’s projects, programmes and initiatives, managing the IUFRO budget and representing IUFRO in international fora.

Sandra McGuire is the Director of Information Services Group at CIFOR, an international forest research organization headquartered in Indonesia. Prior to joining CIFOR, Ms. McGuire was the Director of Communication at the UN rural poverty agency, IFAD, in Rome.

Teresa Presas was born in 1952 in Portugal and has a degree in psychology from the Instituto de Psicologia Aplicada, Lisbon. From 1972 to 1974 she worked for the Consumer Research Department of Lintas International.

She has worked as a journalist for the Semanario Expresso in Lisbon and has also worked on external & international relations at the Portuguese Film Institute.

Ms. Presas entered into the paper industry in 1982 as Director of Communication and Marketing Services for Tetra Pak Portugal. She later went on to become Director of Communication and Environment for Tetra Pak Europe and then, Vice President of European Affairs for Tetra Pak Europe and Africa and Director of Corporate Environmental Affairs for Tetra Pak International.

Between 1991 and 2003 she was member of the Board and Executive Committee of various organisations including, ACE (the Alliance for Beverage Cartons and the Environment), ASSURE (Association for the Sustainable Use and Recovery of Resources in Europe) and EUROPEN (European Organisation for Packaging and the Environment). During that period she was vice-chairperson of the European Commission Consultative Forum for Environment and Sustainable Development.

Teresa Presas became Managing Director of CEPI in September 2003.

He represents interests of the Russian forest-based sector on federal and regional levels, participates in legislation and public activity. Member of state and industry organisations established in Russia to support and improve forest-based industries efficiency.

Giuseppe Scarascia-Mugnozza, born in Rome, September 5, 1954, graduated in Agricultural Sciences (1977) and in Forest Sciences (1983) at the University of Bari (Italy); obtained the PhD diploma in Forest Ecophysiology at the University of Washington, Seattle (USA).

Full Professor of Silviculture and Forest Ecophysiology at University of Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy (since November 1990) and former Director of the Institute of Agroenvironmental and Forest Biology of National Research Council of Italy (IBAF-CNR), starting from October 1st, 2008, is the director of the Department of Agronomy, Forestry and Land Use of the Italian Research Council for Agriculture.

• Trees and forests responses to climate changes and increasing CO2 concentrations
• Structure and functions of Mediterranean and mountain forest ecosystems
• Ecophysiological determinants of fast-growing tree species
• Evaluation of genetic and physiological traits of natural populations of Populus

Coordinator of the EU Large Infrastructure POP/EUROFACE and partner of several EU research projects, member of the Scientific Council of the EU-Forest Technology Platform and national delegate and vice-chair of the ESF-COST Domain “Forests, their Products and Services”.

Frances Seymour is Director General of the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), an international organization with headquarters in Bogor, Indonesia. She is a co-author of Do Trees Grow on Money? and contributor to Moving Ahead with REDD, CIFOR reports released at UNFCCC COP13 and COP14, respectively. Prior to CIFOR, Ms. Seymour founded and directed the Institutions and Governance Program at the World Resources Institute (WRI) in Washington, DC. At WRI, she guided the launch of The Access Initiative, a global civil society coalition promoting citizen involvement in environment-related decisions. She also co-authored and contributed to WRI publications critically examining the role of public and private international financial institutions in promoting sustainable development. Previously, she served as Director of Development Assistance Policy at World Wildlife Fund, and spent five years in Indonesia with the Ford Foundation, where her grant-making focused on community forestry and human rights.

Gerald Steindlegger is Manager of the Global Forest Programme at WWF International. His responsibility is the formulation of WWF’s policy on forests integrating sustainable forest management, climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation. Gerald is member of the Steering Group of the High Conservation Value Resource Network (HCV RN) based in the UK and member of the International Advisory Board of the Master of Science Programme "Management of Protected Areas" at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria.

Gerald has been working for more than 16 years on forest conservation and related policy. After 4 years of natural resource consulting he joined WWF, working for the last 12 years in an international capacity. His career path led him to more than 35 countries around the globe.

He holds a M.Sc. in Forestry from the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life (BOKU) in Vienna. His main interest is to ally forces of various sectors such as forestry, agriculture, climate change, energy and biodiversity with the support of the private sector and civil society organisations to reach climate change targets, to make the forest sector competitive, to save biodiversity and to reverse the trend of deforestation. As a member of the WWF International Landscape Cluster he is promoting participatory and integrated approaches at the landscape level. As a former supervisor of a “Poverty Reduction trough Improved Natural Resource” project carried out in Zambia, Lao PDR, Bhutan, Ecuador and Peru he is keen to connect the preservation of natural resources and biodiversity to the sustainable development of society.

From 1981 to 1997, Mr. Szaraz worked for consulting firms where he was advisor and project director in the areas of natural resources and the environment as well as regional vice-president for business development in Latin America. During this period, he was mainly assigned to international cooperation projects in a dozen of countries in Latin America, the Caribbean and Asia. From 1997 to 2001, he was general director of the Regroupement des sociétés d’aménagement forestier du Québec. Afterward, he was involved in the organization of the XII World Forestry Congress, as Program and Operations Director. During 2004, he worked as general secretary of the Coulombe Commission on the management of Québec’s public forests. Followed a two-year assignment as strategic development advisor the Québec Federation of Forest Cooperatives.

He is a biologist, graduated at the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR), Brazil and doctor in Entomology in the same University. He is work at EMBRAPA (Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation) as a forest entomology researcher of the National Center of Forest Research in Colombo, Brazil since 1979. In June, 2008 he became a Director of Comunication and Business, of this center. He is the Coordinator of the Woodwasp National Control Program, since 1989 and a member of the Technical Panel of Forest Quarantine Group of the IPPC, since 2005. He was a Brazilian Delegate as member and coordinator for some periods of the Forestry Phitosanitary Working Group of the COSAVE, from 1992 to 2005. He has published chapter of books and more than a hundred scientific and technical papers.

After his studies in Canada, Mr. Ze Meka has gained professional experience in forestry working with the Government of Cameroon. He served as the Technical Director of the Cameroon Wood Promotion Center focusing on the promotion of lesser used timber species and on vocational training in wood science and technology, and Director of the Forest Department of Cameroon in charge of the overall planning and supervision of the development of the national forestry sector. Mr. Ze Meka’s 17 years of international experience covers all major countries in the Asia-Pacific, Africa and Latin America in the fields of forest industry and sustainable forest management, including forest conservation and development of forest-based communities.

Mr. Ze Meka has been with ITTO since 1991 and was appointed Executive Director in 2007.

Born in 1966, Bernard de Galembert holds a Degree in Economics, with a specialisation in European Affairs.

From 1991 to 1994, he worked as Chief Economic Adviser to the Confederation of European Sugar Manufacturers (CEFS). He wrote two books on subsidies and programmes in favour of companies in the EU.

From 1994 to 1996, he joined the European Farmers’ Union (COPA-COGECA) where, amongst other things, he was in charge of setting up and managing the Working Group on Forestry.

In 1996, he was as the President’s Adviser of the French Landowners’ Federation (FNPA). On the same year, he became Director General of a monthly trade magazine. He was later appointed Chief Policy Adviser of the European Landowners’ Organisation (ELO) in 1997.

He joined CEPI as Forest Director in 2002. His competencies cover International (United Nations Forum on Forests, etc.) and European (Ministerial Conference on Protection of Forests in Europe, European Forestry Strategy, etc.) policies related to forestry, wood supply for the European Paper Industry, certification of sustainable forest management and Mutual Recognition of certification schemes, illegal logging, renewable energy sources and carbon sequestration in forests, etc.

Bernard de Galembert also dedicates part of his time in CEPI as Research Director.