About ____
Helping to solve some of the globe’s greatest environmental challenges.
The International Sustainable Forestry Coalition (ISFC) brings together a group of the world’s leading forestry companies to work collectively to help solve some of the globe’s greatest environmental challenges.
With a global population of almost 8 billion people and a Gross World Product nearing $100 trillion [1], forests and all natural ecosystems are under pressure.
Deforestation to provide land for agriculture, physical impacts from climate change, disputes over land use and land rights, loss of species and degradation of freshwater quality and flows, are all becoming widespread problems. The global sustainable forestry sector wants to be a larger part of the solution to these problems.
[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/268750/global-gross-domestic-product-gdp/
The ISFC vision __________
To see forests and forestry become central to the global transition to a sustainable and growing circular bioeconomy.
The ISFC mission __________
The ISFC exists to help society build a nature positive bioeconomy by making the best possible use of forests and forest products.
Governance __________
The ISFC is a Company limited by guarantee (not for profit) registered in the United Kingdom. Each member company has the right to nominate one individual to become a Director of the ISFC.
The current Office Holders are:
INDEPENDENT CHAIR
Dr. David Brand
Dr. David Brand has more than 40 years’ experience in forestry investment, forest management, science, and public policy. Dr. Brand founded New Forests in 2005 and is currently Chair of New Forests’ Board of Directors and the Chair of the company’s Investment Committee.
Previously, Dr. Brand has held a variety of senior leadership roles at Hancock Natural Resources Group, the State Forests of NSW and the Canadian Forest Service.
Dr. Brand serves on the Advisory Board of The World BioEconomy Forum, the Board of Directors of the Washington DC based non-governmental organization, Forest Trends, the Board of Trustees of Bangkok-based Intergovernmental Organization, The Centre for People and Forests, and is Chair of wood processing business, Timberlink Australia.
Dr. Brand has been awarded a PhD from the University of British Columbia and a Bachelor of Science in Forestry from the University of Toronto in Canada.
VICE-CHAIR
Mr Doug Long
EVP & Chief Resource Officer, Rayonier
Doug Long is the Executive Vice President and Chief Resource Officer of Rayonier. He leads Rayonier’s global forestry and export operations, safety, sustainability and nature-based solutions programs.
Mr Long is a Certified Forester® with Bachelor and Master’s degrees in Forest Resources and Conservation from the University of Florida.
He has served in leadership positions and on the boards of national forestry organizations and universities during his 25+ year forestry career.
TREASURER
Anna Torma
Vice President Public Affairs and Chief Sustainability Officer, PotlatchDeltic
Anna Torma is Vice President Public Affairs and Chief Sustainability Officer at PotlatchDeltic. In this role, she leads the company’s sustainability reporting and strategy, government relations and policy, internal and external communications, and corporate citizenship. Prior to joining PotlatchDeltic in 2018, Anna was Senior Vice President Corporate Affairs of Forestar Group. She led a variety of functions including investor relations, communications, and environmental health and safety. Torma’s career has included a role as First Vice President, Senior North American Paper & Forest Products Equity Analyst at Merrill Lynch followed by her being a principal at Torma Research as a forest products, packaging, and homebuilders equity research analyst.
Ms. Torma is engaged on several Boards including the National Council for Air and Stream Improvement (NCASI) and the U.S. Endowment for Forestry & Communities and on committees for industry associations including the National Alliance of Forest Owners and American Wood Council. She also serves on the Board of Directors of the Spokane Symphony and Spokane County United Way.
Anna was born in Toronto, Canada and moved to the U.S. in 1996. She was awarded a Bachelor of Science in Forestry from Lakehead University, and a Bachelor of Laws and Master of Business Administration from the University of Western Ontario.
DIRECTOR
Olly Hughes
Managing Director, Forestry, Gresham House Asset Management
Olly Hughes has been Managing Director and an Investment Committee member of our Forestry division since January 2019. He is responsible for managing the growth and development of Gresham House’s forestry activities including acquisitions, fund and private client management and forestry asset management.
Prior to joining Gresham House, Olly was a Partner and Head of Infrastructure at Oxford Capital for six years where he built and managed a portfolio of over £300mn of solar and wind renewable energy assets. He started his career at ING Barings in 1995 focusing on asset backed structuring and since then has focused his career on real asset investment and asset management.
Olly has over 25 years of investment experience and holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Master’s degree from the University of Oxford in Biological Science. He also obtained the Investment Management Certificate from the CFA Society in the UK.
DIRECTOR
Mr. Hiroyuki Isono
President & Group CEO, Oji Holdings Corporation
Mr. Hiroyuki Isono is the President & Group CEO of Oji Holdings Corporation. He has vast experience in overseas business development and contributed a lot to Oji’s expansion especially in South East Asia, Oceania and Europe.
Mr. Isono was appointed as President & Group CEO in 2022 and described company’s purpose “Grow and manage the sustainable forest, develop and deliver the products from renewable forest, and Oji will bring this world a brighter future filled with hope”.
Mr. Isono believes that sustainable forestry can activate various forest ecosystem service such as water resource conservation, wood production, global warming mitigation, and biodiversity conservation which are economically and socially very important.
DIRECTOR
Toshiro Mitsuyoshi
President and Representative Director, Sumitomo Forestry, Co., Ltd.
Toshiro Mitsuyoshi is President and Representative Director of Sumitomo Forestry since April 2020. In this role, he announced the company’s long-term vision “Mission TREEING 2030” that aims to maximize the value of forests and wood and to realize the decarbonization of the society and a circular bioeconomy through its value chain, the Wood Cycle. Prior to being appointed to the current position, he was the division head of the Housing and Construction Division from 2017.
Toshiro joined Sumitomo Forestry in 1985 and served in Seattle, the United States and New Zealand for the log trading and business development. He was appointed Executive Officer in 2010 and Managing Executive Officer the next year. During his tenure as the head of the Overseas Business Division, Toshiro has played a central role in the acquisitions and launches of engineered wood line such as MDF, LVL, and particle board. His expertise also helped him lead the Division in the M & A transactions of the housing business in Australia and in the United States, which made the foundation of the Company’s global expansion.
DIRECTOR
Mr Mark Rogers
Chief Executive Officer, New Forests
Mark Rogers was appointed Chief Executive Officer of New Forests in April 2023. He is responsible for setting the strategic direction of the business, which includes overseeing the growth of both New Forests and New Agriculture.
Mark joined New Forests in 2016, and was previously head of New Forests’ Australia, New Zealand and United States businesses where he oversaw the investments and operations in those regions.
Mark has over 27 years’ experience in real asset sales and acquisition, regulation, greenfields project development, and finance. Mark is a member of several New Forests’ Investment Committees and operating company boards. He has also had extensive experience as a Non-Executive Director on numerous other real asset companies.
Mark has a Bachelor of Arts, a Bachelor of Economics, and a Masters of Law from the Australian National University in Australia, and is a graduate member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
DIRECTOR
Dr Olli Haltia
Managing Partner, Dasos Capital Ltd
– CapMan Natural Capital
Olli Haltia is a founding partner and chief executive at Dasos Capital since 2008. Prior to that, he was the CEO and Chairman of Indufor Oy. Having worked previously also for Jaakko Pöyry and European Investment Bank, Haltia has over 30 years of experience in managing advisory and investment teams in the private equity and consulting sectors. He has expertise in timberland and natural capital investments, management and valuation. He further has extensive expertise in technology-driven solutions and financing. Haltia holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of London, as well as a M.Sc. in Mathematical Economics and a M.Sc. in Forest Economics, both from the University of Helsinki.
DIRECTOR
Arnaud Filhol
Chief Executive Officer, France Valley
Arnaud co-founded La Société d’Investissement Forestier which subsequently became France Valley, where he serves as CEO.
Former auditor at US firm Arthur Andersen before joining Thales Group (global defense technology leader) as an investment professional in Tech companies.
Arnaud then joined Seventure (one of the European leaders in venture capital, part of Natixis Group) then UFG Private Equity (part of La Française Asset Management Group, 50 billion euros under management), of which he became a Member of the Management Board. In this position, he carried out venture capital, growth capital and LBO transactions.
Arnaud graduated from ESC Toulouse.
DIRECTOR
Toby Croucher
Senior Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer, Stora Enso
Toby Croucher is Senior Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer for Stora Enso. Stora Enso is a leading provider of renewable products in packaging, biomaterials, and wooden construction, and one of the largest private forest owners in the world. Toby is responsible for the overall sustainability strategy of the Group and alignment of sustainability with the business strategy. Toby has been with Stora Enso since 2022.
Toby has 25 years’ of corporate industry experience in large enterprises and prior to joining Stora Enso Toby had leadership roles in technology and energy sectors across both strategy and operational roles where he led integration of biodiversity, climate and sustainability strategies into business across a diverse range of countries and stakeholders. Toby has a Natural Sciences MSc and executive education from both Harvard and Stanford on strategy and leading organisational change.
ISFC EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Mr Ross Hampton
A journalist by training, Mr. Hampton has been working in public policy for more than two decades specialising in understanding and influencing the complex social, political and economic dynamics which determine outcomes in areas such as sustainable resource management, environmental protection, the circular bioeconomy, nature-based solutions, climate change and sustainable forest management.
Mr. Hampton has a Master’s Degree in Public Policy (Environmental Policy) from the Australian National University and a Bachelor of Arts in English from Curtin University, Western Australia and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
