Wang Jue has a bachelor degree of Environmental Sciences in Nanjing University and a Master degree of Forest Sciences and Business in the University of Helsinki. After she graduated from the University of Helsinki, Wang Jue starts her career in UPM, one of the biggest forestry company in the world. She is now working in UPM Specialty Papers in Shanghai, responsible for the communications and marketing of environmental affairs and sustainability in Asia Pacific area, promoting the leading environmental concept UPM Biofore strategy, and the best practice of green paper-making.

Ke is Senior Advisor in The Nature Conservancy.

Joy has worked for over 10 years in sustainable natural resources management. She has expertise in responsible-sourcing, traceability, due diligence systems and risk management. In her five year with Earthworm Foundation, she mainly works on supply chains in the pulp & paper and palm oil industries. This role involves helping members to implement their sustainable sourcing policies, conduct supply chain mapping, and to risk identification and mitigation.

Zhang Xinxin is responsible for NEPCon certification and audit services in China, Korea, and Japan. She is a qualified FSC FM lead auditor and FSC CoC auditor for NEPCon, had been working on FSC certification, forest legality verifications, supply chain traceability and responsible sourcing, and high conservation values forests protections in China for more than 15 years.

Joan is the EHS Director & Social Responsibility Lead of RRD Asia. She has 25 years of operation experience and more than 12 years of EHS, social responsibility and compliance experience in printing manufacturing area.

Neil was the architect of many of the multi-client projects that Carnstone has established, including its longest-running initiative, the Book Chain Project. He is a strong believer in collaboration both within sectors and also with other key stakeholders. Neil leads much of Carnstone's work on sustainability in global supply chains - from raw material sourcing, through to environmental and social performance at processing and manufacturing sites. Neil's career has included work for an international shipping and trading company based in Europe and Asia.

Jessica Wong joined WWF China in 2012, and thereafter has been part of Sustainable Forest Team. She is working on Global Forest Trade Networks (GFTN), China Sustainable Paper Alliance (CSPA) in China with multi stakeholders and she's also in charge of New Generation Plantation (NGP) implementation in China since 2015. She has rich experiences in working with companies and private sectors on project design, implementation and communication in China. Since 2015, she has led her team to establish and run CSPA. She also plays a leading role in designing and launching the Green ME campaign with partners in China.

Ms. Tai is the Forest Manager of IKEA trading in East Asia area. In the past decade, she has led her team in China to drive sustainable sourcing strategy by working with the IKEA commercial team and their suppliers. She's been managing the forest compliance in the IKEA supply chain in China, and on top of that, she's also actively engaging with partners like WWF to drive sustainable forest management to protect the invaluable forest resources.

Yunting Li, Project Officer of Green Supply Chain at Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs (IPE). Founded in 2006, IPE is committed to promoting governmental and corporate environmental information disclosure in China. in 2014, IPE jointly developed the Corporate Information Disclosure Index (CITI) with National The Natural Resources Defense Council, and has been working with more than 50 brands in greening their supply chain in China.

Boris Saraber is an Operational Forester who has worked for more than 20 years in the responsible commodity sector. He joined TFT in 2008 where he lead operations in Asia and has driven TFTs strategic engagement with companies across numerous commodities including Pulp and Paper. He has supported pragmatic responsible change across all nodes of the pulp and paper supply chain. At one end having supported farmers to large scale plantation companies implement responsible forest management practices and the other developing and supporting the implementation of Responsible Sourcing Policies for some of the largest brands and producers. Currently, Boris heads up TFTs Operations Globally as TFTs Director Operations, based in Switzerland.

Wang Jue has a bachelor degree of Environmental Sciences in Nanjing University and a Master degree of Forest Sciences and Business in the University of Helsinki. After she graduated from the University of Helsinki, Wang Jue starts her career in UPM, one of the biggest forestry company in the world. She is now working in UPM Specialty Papers in Shanghai, responsible for the communications and marketing of environmental affairs and sustainability in Asia Pacific area, promoting the leading environmental concept UPM Biofore strategy, and the best practice of green paper-making.

Ms. Meng is the Director of overseas business of Shandong Chenming Paper Holding Ltd. She's in charge of the the certification process for Chenming's paper brands and she overseas communication with foreign raw material suppliers.

Mr. Raymond Fang has been working in Sustainability/CSR area for over 14 years in both private and public sectors. He is currently working for Asia Pulp & Paper China as the Director of Sustainability and the Deputy General Manager of Corporate Affairs, overseeing the sustainability issues from sustainable forests management, responsible supply chain, to energy saving, emission reduction and community engagement. Prior to that, Mr. Fang also worked for Stora Enso China and DANONE Waters China as the Head of Sustainability/CSR.

Ms. Yu is the Director of certification department of National Forestry Bureau and Secretary-General of China Forest Certification Council. She has been working in the forestry certification sector for many years and is a main contributor to the forest certification system in China. She has a wealth of experience on development of forest certification system and standards, certification practices, organisation authorisation etc.

Ms. Vale Yu, FSC China Market Development Manager. Since joint FSC in 2016, Vale is in charge of FSC’s marketing development strategy in China, leading various campaigns/activities with multiple partners and driving the growth of market awareness for sustainable forest and certified products. She holds a Master Degree of Applied Psychology. Before joining FSC, Ms. Yu had more than 15 years marketing and branding experience with leading international companies.

Alison David is Consumer Insight Director at Egmont, the UK’s leading specialist children’s publisher of books and magazines and home to many of the world’s favourite stories and best-loved authors and illustrators and characters including: Thomas & Friends, Disney Princess, Disney Frozen, Star Wars™, LEGO®, Teletubbies, Michael Morpurgo, Enid Blyton, Julia Donaldson, Lemony Snicket, Michael Grant, Andy Stanton, Winnie-the-Pooh, Tintin, Mr Men, Stampy Cat and Minecraft.
Alison has worked in the media and publishing industry for over 30 years and with research as a creator, analyst and end user. Through her extensive research, and as a parent herself, Alison has a real insight into the challenges facing reading.
Her research programme at Egmont includes: ‘Reading Street’, a longitudinal study investigating children’s reading and the environment in which they grow up to understand what it takes to inspire them to read for pleasure, a consumer segmentation study sizing the children’s book and magazine market for the first time and most recently ‘Print Matters’, an exploration into parents’ and children’s responses to reading children’s books, including print books, eBooks, apps and magazines.
Alison is also author of ‘Help Your Child Love Reading,’ a practical guide-book for parents, to help them inspire their children to read for pleasure.

Lisa Tickner is Director of Content Strategy & Business Development, in the Education, Reference and Continuity Books Group at Elsevier, based in the UK. She has been with Elsevier for 15 years and has held a number of roles within editorial, working on both books and journals. Prior to that she worked at Academic Press and John Wiley & Sons. In her current role she is responsible for developing and implementing the content strategy and identifying new business opportunities. She has a BSc in Biochemistry from the University of Sheffield.

The purpose of the Environmental Review Group (ERG) is to spread awareness within the book industry of the environmental impact of publishing. The group aims to encourage action in every area of the business to reduce waste and adopt environmentally friendly business practice. It was jointly formed by the Publishers Association and benefits from input from the Booksellers Association and printers. As well as being the chair of the ERG, Peter Hughes is Director of Sustainability for Pearson, the world's leading learning company. He has overall responsibility to lead on corporate responsibility work at Pearson including environmental and supply chain management issues.

Jori Ringman has a background in Economics (Helsinki University) and Business Management (Helsinki School of Economics) and broad experience in communications, public administration and politics. He also has an MSc in Environmental Decision-making (Open University, Milton Keynes).
Previously, as Director for Sustainability in the Confederation of European Paper Industries (CEPI), Mr Ringman is responsible for issues relating to environment, consumer protection, with particular concern for packaging and food contact issues, and sustainable consumption and production policy. Environmental issues and policies are central to all CEPI’s activities, as the industry continuously works to minimise its impact across the EU; the issues covered range from the revision of pulp and paper BREF (Best Available Techniques Reference Document) and environmental footprinting (PEF) to advancing circular thinking and industrial symbiosis in the sector.
Prior to his appointment in CEPI in February 2005, he was a civil servant at the European Commission. He has also worked in the European Parliament Environment Committee as a political advisor (1999 – 2004), as a journalist and editor in Finland, and as Secretary General of a parliamentary group in the Finnish National Parliament in Helsinki.

Mark has been with Ashford for 25 years and was part of the 3 person MBO team that took over the company in 2002. They have developed from a Litho only printing book company and now produce over 50% of their turnover through Inkjet production. In his spare time, he is the Chairman of Eastleigh RFC.

Anand started in his role as FSC’s European Regional Director in January 2016. The remit of this role is to strategically coordinate and develop the FSC European Network in Europe (currently 16 Network Partners) and to develop FSC’s presence in priority countries.

Before he started at FSC, Anand led on sustainability issues at the Timber Trade Federation in the UK, working with its members and key stakeholders to provide an overarching strategic framework for the TTF’s work in this area.

The focus of his work at the TTF was Responsible Timber Procurement and Supply Chain Management, in particular EUTR. Given the improvements the UK timber industry has made in the responsible sourcing of timber (90% of what TTF members buy is certified), his work increasingly focused on the role that timber can play in delivering a low carbon built environment. He was a key influencer in getting TTF to sign up to FSC and PEFC membership and convinced the TTF board to agree to sign up to WWF’s 2020 Forest Campaign which is looking to achieve 100% sustainable/ responsibly sourced timber in the UK by 2020.

Björn heads TFT in the UK. TFT UK’s principal function is to engage member and client companies with the organisation’s product group programmes. In 1999 Björn helped to found TFT as a not-for-profit organisation.

At that time TFT focused successfully on tropical hardwood furniture, building robust and certified supply chains anchored in well-managed tropical forests. The scope has since widened greatly to include pulp and paper and agricultural commodities such as palm oil. Supply chain transparency remains key to TFT’s pioneering approach to make ‘no deforestation’ production of forest and agricultural commodities a reality in the tropics.

As an Associate at WRI Ruth conducts research, project management, outreach and partner engagement with business, NGOs and service providers for Global Forest Watch in Latin America, and the Forest Legality Alliance.

Ruth with will be showcasing the Global Forest Watch Tool, what it’s capable of doing, and how it can be used as part of supply chain traceability to determine sustainable sources.

Sarah Price is Head of Projects & Development at PEFC International in Geneva. Her work focuses on expanding PEFC certification internationally in both forests and markets. Working in the forest sector for over 15 years, Sarah’s experience spans the full spectrum: from operational forestry to international forest policy. She has held positions with The Forest Trust and The Forests Dialogue, and has spent many years living and working in the forests of North America, South America and Southeast Asia.
Sarah possesses a Masters of Forest Science from Yale University and a Bachelors of Science in Natural Resource Conservation from the University of British Columbia.

As a recognized leader in sustainability and the global paper industry, Laura has worked in the industry since 1995 on mill environmental initiatives, product development for paper and packaging, R&D and most recently, sustainable development. In her role as director of sustainable development and global policy initiatives at Sappi North America, Laura provides thought leadership and helps set strategies for the company’s sustainability goals, and serve as the main contact for multiple branches of corporate governance supporting sustainability.

Laura also currently serves in several volunteer positions including the GreenBlue Board of Directors; University of New Hampshire Environmental Engineering Program Advisory Board; AF&PA / MIT Technical Advisory Group for a Consequential Lifecycle Analysis Project; the Sustainable Packaging Coalition Executive Committee; TwoSides US Sustainability Committee; the judging panel for the UNH Social Venture Innovation Challenge; and the SPC ILC ‘Value of Certification’ Project.

Mike Gaworecki is a writer and journalist based in New York City. He started writing for Mongabay as a contributor on forests issues in 2014 and became a staff writer in September 2015. Mike's writing has also appeared on DeSmogBlog, BillMoyers.com, Alternet, Treehugger, Huffington Post, and more.

Mike will be discussing the global drivers of deforestation, specifically competing land uses between soy/palm oil/hydro and how pulp and paper fits in.

Shane Moffatt is a Forest Campaigner with Greenpeace Canada. He received his law degree from University College Dublin and his LLM from the University of Toronto, with a focus on corporate, human rights and environmental law. His work with Greenpeace has focused on the Indonesian rainforest and Canadian Boreal Forest, and involves outreaching to Indigenous communities, engaging major forest products customers and raising public awareness of responsible forest management. Prior to joining Greenpeace, Shane worked in the human rights sector for a number of years and sees close connections between human and environmental challenges facing the world’s forests.

Mr. Dufresne has 25 years of experience in the private and public sectors representing a proven track record in financing and investments, as well as an in-depth knowledge of the forest industry at both corporate and manufacturing levels. Most recently at SGF (Société générale de financement du Québec), he played a key role in equity investment within the Forest sector and in sustainable development initiatives involving forest management expenditures, forest certification and Canada's First Nations.
He is a Forest Engineer and holds a Master in Business Administration. He is a proven business leader in the industry and the right visionary to build on FSC Canada's strengths in order to ensure the organization's continued success. Accordingly, in his capacity, he brings a solid foundation of existing relationships with government officials, forestry industry executives and financial sector players.

Jason Metnick is Senior Vice President, Customer Affairs for the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI Inc.) program, a third-party forest certification system in North America. The SFI® standard, one of the largest sustainable forestry certification programs in the world, is based on principles and measures that promote sustainability including measures to protect for water quality, biodiversity, wildlife habitat, species at risk and forests of exceptional conservation value. As Senior Vice President, Jason works directly with companies in the wood, paper and packaging supply chain including forest landowners, manufacturers, merchants, wholesalers, converters, printers and end users to promote the SFI program and provide market access to SFI certified organizations.

Jason holds a Bachelor of Science in Forestry from Northern Arizona University and is a member of the Society of American Foresters. He also sits on a number of committees related to certification, labeling and claims, including the Programme for Endorsement of Forest Certification’s chain-of-custody committee, is a member of The Sustainability Consortium’s Pulp, Paper and Forestry Sector, The Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council’s Wood and Agfiber Technical Advisory Committee and previously chaired the ASTM task group on chain of custody.

Beth is a Senior Production Manager at Chronicle Books, where she has worked for the past 15 years. In addition to individual project management, Beth heads up the Development Group and works on Chronicle's environmental initiatives with regards to manufacturing. Beth will be speaking from a publisher's perspective on the importance of the PREPS database for ensuring supply chain integrity and risk mitigation.

Nick works for Carnstone, the consultancy that runs PREPS. He manages the day-to-day running of the initiative and will be providing the background to introduce PREPS, its purpose and its global reach.

Mr. Lee has worked in Leo Paper Group since 1998. Before joining Leo, he had worked as Quality Engineer of Swire Group and Quality Manager of Tomei Industrial Group. He holds a Higher Diploma in Applied Science, a Post-experience Diploma in Industrial and Operation Management from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and then a Master of Science degree in Manufacturing System Engineering from University of Warwick. Mr. Lee is now working as the General Manager of Integrated Management Department, who is responsible for the setup and upgrading of all Management systems in Leo Paper Group. and is also responsible for the Quality management across the supply chain.

Joanne Chen works for UPM, mainly responsible for the environmental marketing and communications in Paper Asia. She will present the sustainable forest management and responsible environmental performance.

With 7 year experience building capacities of environmental and energy management among the paper industries, Sun Mingming, graduated from University of Twente in the Netherlands, Senior Pulp&Paper Program Officer at WWF China, is dedicating to the market transformation of forest-based commodities, particularly specialized in paper and packaging in China. Before join WWF China, Mingming was project manager at private sector and provide capacity buildings on bio-energy projects among the pulp&paper industries. Mingming also has two years’ experience working as a fiber purchaser at one of the leading paper mills in Shandong Province.

Nick works for Carnstone, the consultancy that runs PREPS. He manages the day-to-day running of the initiative and will be providing the background to introduce PREPS, its purpose and its global reach.

Yingying conducts environment related research, management and consulting on water and climate for universities, enterprises as well as government agencies. She holds a bachelor degree in Science Geochemistry from Peking University and a master degree of Environmental Economics and Management from University of Montesquieu-Bordeaux IV.

Chaochao works in our Shanghai office where she helps business to protect the environment and better serve the communities they operate in. Growing up in China has given her first-hand experience of the sustainability challenges the country is facing today, such as air pollution, resource scarcity and urban and rural inequality. Prior to joining Carnstone, she studied for her undergraduate degree in Hong Kong. More recently, she completed an MSc in Environmental Policy and Regulation at the London School of Economics.

FSC China Key Account Manager

Neil was the architect of many of the multi-client projects that Carnstone has established, and is a strong believer in collaboration both within sectors and also with other key stakeholders. Neil leads much of our work on sustainability in global supply chains - from raw material sourcing, through to environmental and social performance at processing and manufacturing sites. Prior to joining Carnstone, he worked for an international shipping and trading company based in Europe and Asia.

Nick works for Carnstone, the consultancy that runs PREPS. He manages the day-to-day running of the initiative and will be providing the background to introduce PREPS, its purpose and its global reach.

China Forest Certification Council