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The Council will guide the development of the GAOF by making recommendations, promote the GAOF and help with sourcing future funding. This may sound bureaucratic but if the GAOF is to be able to promote the forest industry and help our colleagues find jobs we need active contacts with a wide range of interests. In addition to date the GAOF has been based in Scotland and needs a truly global representation.
The members of Council (Councillors) will have a number of roles:
Council will consist of 2 members of the GAOF representing each of the 6 continents and a Chairman. In the future once the GAOF has a larger membership the council members may wish to form subcommittees for each continent with representatives from participating countries.
A vote of Councillors was held from Monday 25th January 1999 (8 am GMT ) until Sunday 31st January 1999 (8pm GMT). Only Members of the GAOF were allowed to vote.
The following were elected as Councillors for the GAOF.
Click here for details of the results of the voting.
| Chairman/Director |
| Nick Ananin Aberdeen, Scotland, UK nick@foresters.org Main Involvement: Private Forestry Consultant Founding member of the GAOF |
| Europe |
| Veronika Soldatova Forest Technical Academy Saint-Petersburg, Russia Kir@inf.fta.spb.ru Main involvement: State Forest Service Other involvement: Training Education and Research Other Information: Ph.D. |
| Tom Jenkins University of Wales, Bangor School of Agricultural & Forest Sciences, Bangor, Gwynedd UK t.a.r.jenkins@bangor.ac.uk Main involvement: Lecturer in Forestry (mensuration, management, modelling, policy). Other involvement: International Forestry Educaton; Boreal Forestry; the Use of the WWW in Forestry Education; Web-Design; Forest Research. Expansion Tom's interests and activities are available on the Web (just click on the nameplate!). |
| Africa |
| Joshua Idassi Forest Products Center Knoxville, Tennessee, 37919, USA jidassi@cfr.msstate.edu Main involvement: Training Education and Research Other involvement: Woodland Owner Joshua is from Tanzania (East Africa) and lives on the slopes of Mountain Kilimanjaro and Pare Plateau. I have been in forestry activities in the country. He owns a small plantation there which is managed by his bother -in-law and can be used as a demonstration plot for local people. Joshua says "The natives there grow coffee as a cash crop. Tree growing as a cash crop has not been the way to go." Joshua also believes we need to find a way to to communicate and work with the many NGOs working in African countries in reforestation programs. There are local foresters in most of these African countries but they are poorly paid and very unmotivated. |
| Graeme Wild Sappi Forests Johannesburg, South Africa graemew@za.sappi.com Main Involvement: Private forestry company, Business Development Manager tasked with improving forestry operations, benchmarking with other companies/organisations and leading multidisciplinary task teams to solve problems. |
| Asia |
| Chandra Giri (Dr) Program Specialist UNEP: Environment Assessment Programme for Asia and the Pacific (UNEP/EAP.AP) Asian Institute of Technology P.O. Box 4 Klong Luang, Pathumthani 12120 THAILAND cpgiri@ait.ac.th Click here for CV |
| Pankaj Khullar (Dr) Indian Forest Service Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India khullarp@hotmail.com Main Involvement: Government Pankaj says "I am a forester of 28 years standing, working in the temperate and sub-tropical forests of India. I belong to the Indian Forest Service, and work for the government. I have worked on secondment as Lecturer at the erstwhile Indian Forest College at Dehra Dun from 1978 to 1983 and again as Head, Silviculture Division, Forest Research Institute, Dehra Dun from 1991 to 1996. My Ph.D. was obtained in the area of Bamboo propagation in the nurseries." |
| Oceania |
| Karol Andrzejewski (Mr) Forests Section Bureau of Rural Sciences Agriculture Fisheries Forestry Kingston, Australia Karol.Andrzejewski@brs.gov.au Main involvement: Forest Research Officer Karol says "I would be delighted to work for GAOF and the international forest community. To spread the word about ecologically sustainable forest management, forest science and forestry in general was always my desire." |
| Jacqueline Sloggett Hancock Victorian Plantations Melbourne, Australia jsloggett@hvp.com.au Main involvement: Commercial Analyst (include market analysis) |
| South
America |
| Jose de la Maza (Professor) Professor in Quantitative Models at Universidad Mayor Professor in Quantitative Forest Management at Universidad Santo Tomás Santiago, Chile consultor@chileforestal.cl Other Information: Forestry Consultant, with special focus in Mercosur Region. |
| Cristian Pincheira MIDEPLAN Santiago, Region Metropolitana, Chile cpincheira@hotmail.com Main involvement: Working for the Government of Chile at the Planning and Cooperation Ministry and as an Assistant Professor in the "Universidad Mayor" |
| North
America |
| H. Gyde Lund Forest Information Services Manassas, VA, USA gklund@worldnet.att.net Main involvement: Private Forestry |
| Don Staples Staples Forestry Livingston, Texas, USA dstaples@livingston.net Main involvement: Private Forestry |