Board ____
The ISFC is a Company limited by guarantee (not for profit) registered in the United Kingdom. Each full member company has the right to nominate one individual to become a Director of the ISFC.
Board of Directors
CHAIR
Hiroyuki Isono
President & CEO, Oji Holdings Corporation
EUROPE / UK VICE-CHAIR
Toby Croucher
Senior Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer, Stora Enso
USA / CANADA VICE-CHAIR
Kristen Sawin
Vice President, Government & Corporate Affairs, Weyerhaeuser Company
TREASURER
Anna Torma
Vice President Public Affairs and Chief Sustainability Officer, PotlatchDeltic
DIRECTOR
Masaru Namiki
General Manager, Living and Environmental Business Division, Performance Materials Business Unit, Mitsui&Co.
DIRECTOR
Guillermo Federico Olmedo
Environmental and Social Value Manager, ARAUCO
DIRECTOR
Mark Rogers
Chief Executive Officer, New Forests
DIRECTOR
Akira Sebe
President & Representative Director, Nippon Paper Industries
DIRECTOR
Martin Berg
Chief Executive Officer, Climate Asset Management
DIRECTOR
Bill Adams
Chief Sustainability Officer, Mercer International
DIRECTOR
Arnaud Filhol
Chief Executive Officer, France Valley
DIRECTOR
Mike Cerchiaro
President and CEO, Forest Investment Associates
DIRECTOR
Olly Hughes
Managing Director, Forestry, Gresham House Asset Management
DIRECTOR
Jyri Hietala
Managing Partner, CapMan Natural Capital
DIRECTOR
Toshiro Mitsuyoshi
President and Representative Director, Sumitomo Forestry, Co., Ltd.
DIRECTOR
Doug Long
EVP & Chief Resource Officer, Rayonier
DIRECTOR
Angus Whiteley
Chief Executive Officer, Stafford Capital Partners
DIRECTOR
Blake Stansell
President & COO, Aurora Sustainable Lands
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.
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.
