Chairman

Term of Office 2006-2009
Michael Clark is a Senior Advisor for Sustainability and Environmental Affairs within the Finnish M-real corporation. He is a member of the PEFC Council Board's Market Acceptance Committee and has been responsible for managing the PEFC strategic communications project in the UK. He served two years on the PEFC Council Board of Directors and continues on the board of PEFC UK Ltd, having served as chairman in 2005/06.

Vice Chairman

Term of Office: 2007-2010
Antti Sahi is the Forest Director of the Finnish Central Union of Agricultural Producers and Forest Owners MTK. He is a representative of family forest owners in several national and international forest policy bodies and organisations. He is a graduate forester from the University of Helsinki. He has worked for MTK since 1995 and became its Forest Director in 2003.

Vice Chairman

Term of Office: 2005-2008
Robert S Simpson is the Senior Vice President, Forestry Program, American Forest Foundation AFF and National Director of the American Tree Farm System, the oldest and largest third party forest certification system in the United States, with nearly 80,000 certified properties, totalling 35 million acres. He was elected to this position in April 1994, after a 16-year career as a field management forester.

Board Member

Term of Office: 2006-2009
Björn Andrén is Managing Director of Holmen Skog AB with responsibility for Forestry and Wood Supply to the Swedish Holmen Industries. He serves as the Chairman of the Forest Committee of the Swedish Forest Industries, and as Director on the Boards of the Forest Research Institute, Skogforsk; the Forest Faculty of the Swedish University for Agricultural Sciences SLU; and PEFC Sweden. He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry, KSLA.

Board Member

Term of Office 2005-2008
Kathy Bradley joined The Paper Federation of Great Britain in 1988 and for several years was Head of Communications, with responsibility for forestry issues since 1996. In 1998, she was promoted to Director of External Affairs, a position she continued to hold when the Confederation of Paper Industries (CPI) was launched in 2000. She was the CPI's main spokesperson to the media, Parliamentarians, environmental and other organisations and a member of the Confederation of European Paper Industries' (CEPI) Forestry Committee for many years. She now works for CPI on a part time basis focusing on forestry issues.

Board Member

Term of Office 2007-2010
Karen Brandt has recently been appointed to the position of vice-president, market affairs of the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI). Before that she led the BC Market Outreach Network, an agency of the British Colombia Government, to ensure market acceptance of and promotions for BC forest products on behalf of the BC forest sector. Ms Brandt's forest experience includes 6 years as Senior Manager with the BC Ministry of Forests. She has worked directly with customer and sector partners in North America, Europe and Asia on certification and market campaign issues. She has an honours Bachelor of Journalism degree from Carleton University.

Board Member

Term of Office: 2006-2009
Hans Drielsma is Executive General Manager of Forestry Tasmania, the government owned business enterprise which manages Tasmania's State forests. He was Chair of the Australian Forestry Standard (AFS) Steering Committee established to develop the AFS, and subsequently Chair and then Director of AFS Ltd. He is a professional forester with post-graduate qualifications in forest policy and natural resources sociology, and a Fellow of the Institute of Foresters of Australia.

Board Member

Term of Office: 2006-2008
Andrey Frolov is Vice President of the Union of Timber manufacturers and exporters of Russia, Member of the Union board and has been involved in the PEFC process in Russia since 2001. He is Chairman of the Partnership on the Development of PEFC Forest Certification, which represent the two Russian forest certifcation initiatives in the PEFC Council, the National Council of Voluntary Forest Certification in Russia (RSFC) and the Russian National Council for Forest Certification (RNCFC).

Board Member

Term of Office: 2006-2008
Sébastien Genest is the Chairman of France Nature Environnement, the French National Federation of some 3,000 local and regional environmental NGOs. A member of the High Council for Forestry, Forest Products and wood processing and its Committee on Forest policy, Sébastien is also on the Board of the National Office of Forests ONF and is a director of PEFC France.

Board Member

Term of Office: 2007-2008
Hans Köpp is a Professor (emeritus) for Nature Conservation, Forest Policy and Forest History at the University for Applied Sciences at G?ttingen. He has been active for many years in IUFRO and IUCN. He was, respectively is on the Boards of the German environmental organisations Schutzgemeinschaft Deutscher Wald (SDW) and Vereinigung Deutscher Gewässerschutz (VDG). He was the editor of the international journal Nature and National Parks. He represented the European Environmental Bureau in the EU Advisory Committee for Forestry and Cork. His international experience includes missions for FAO in Iran and UNESCO in Greece.

Board Member

Term of Office: 2007-2010
William Luddy is Director for United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and Labor-Management Education and Development Fund. A trustee for Forest Products Industry National Labor Management Committee. A member of U.S. Department of Labour and Labour Advisory Committee on trade negotiations and trade policy. Political Director and delegate for Southwest Regional Council of Carpenters. Director for Carpenters/Contractors Cooperation Committee. Board of Directors member for California Council for Environmental and Economical Balance, Los Angeles Convention and Visitors Bureau and a member of the oversight committee for Los Angeles Community College District Citizens.

Board Member

Term of Office: 2006-2009
Felix Montecuccoli studied forestry and has worked in different positions in the Austrian Federation of Land and Forest Owners Association (Land & Forst Betriebe ?sterreich) and in 2005 he was elected its president. Mr Montecuccoli is a forest owner and forest manager of a family forest estate of about 940 hectares and has been involved in various aspects of forest certification.

Board Member

Term of Office 2007-2010
Bill Street's experience includes: Director of Research and Education of the International Woodworkers of America, US, the largest US labor union representing forest and mill workers, Director of the Global Wood and Forestry Program for the International Federation of Builders and Woodworkers (now Builders and Woodworkers International), a global trade union federation, and is currently an International Representative for the Woodworkers. Mr Street has worked with forestry projects in Ghana, Burkina Faso, Kenya, South Africa, Brazil, Chile, Indonesia, India, China, and Malaysia in addition to his work in industrialized countries. He holds a Masters of Science from the University of Oregon in politics and government and has written on poverty reduction and sustainable forestry.