

Gary Dunning
Gary is the Executive Director of The Forest School at the Yale School of the Environment. His primary responsibilities center on strategic planning, institutional collaborations, communications, and programming. Gary also lectures at the School on stakeholder engagement, leadership in the forest sector and timely issues in forestry. He is the founding Executive Director of The Forests Dialogue (TFD). TFD was created in 2000 to provide global forest leaders with a neutral, multi-stakeholder dialogue (MSD) platform and process focused on developing mutual trust and a shared understanding while working towards collaborative solutions to the challenges in achieving sustainable forest management and forest conservation around the world. Gary previously served as the Director of the Yale Forest Forum from 1998-2000. He holds an MF degree from the Yale School of the Environment and a BA in Geography & Natural Resources from Humboldt State University.

Grant Rosoman
Senior Forest Solutions Advisor for Greenpeace International. Involved with FSC since its inception, on the FSC International board (including chair), and Policy and Standards Committee. Co-founder of the multi-stakeholder High Carbon Stock Approach (HCSA), that puts ‘No Deforestation’ commitments into practice. Worked on commodity markets transformation and corporate engagement, in particular wood product and palm oil. Three decades experience supporting community forest management solutions in Solomon Is, Papua New Guinea and Indonesia.

Salem Jones, J.D.
Salem is a legal and integrity specialist with over 20 years of experience in policy development, not-for-profit governance, and conflict resolution. As Programme Manager at FSC International, Salem leads global initiatives on dispute resolution and remedy, including high-impact dialogue and multi-stakeholder processes. Known for strategic leadership in complex governance environments, Salem has represented FSC at major international forums and driven key reforms in corporate accountability.
Event Details
- Monday, 27 October
Time: 08:30 - 10:00 (EST - Panama) / 14:30 - 16:00 (CET) / 21:30 - 23:00 (WITA)