Séance plénière sur la certification de la gestion forestière : façonner nos racines

Kevin Jones

Kevin serves as PSC Economic North representative. Having qualified with a BSc Hons Degree in Ecological Science (Edinburgh University) and MSc Forestry (Oxford University) he went on to qualify as a Chartered Forester with the UK Institute of Chartered Foresters. He then worked as a forest manager in a variety of contexts including community forestry in Africa, management of historic landscapes, nature conservation forests, and commercial forest management. He carried out his first FSC forest audit in 1995 for FSC accredited certification body Soil Association Certification Ltd and eventually became the Director of their global forest certification programme before retiring from that role in 2022. Kevin has carried out forest and chain of custody audits in over 60 countries from all regions in the world, written forest management standards and quality management systems to comply with FSC and ISO accreditation requirements, and actively contributed to FSC policy development.

Rod Taylor

Rod is the Global Director of Forests and Nature Conservation at the World Resource Institute (WRI), with oversight of Global Forest Watch, Nature Resources Governance and Policy and work on responsible supply chains. Before joining WRI, Rod worked as the Forests Director at WWF International, and before that led WWF’s forest work in the Asia Pacific region.  Earlier in his career, Rod worked as a forest policy adviser in Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.  Rod began his career as a lawyer in Australia and has a Masters Degree in Environmental Law from the Australian National University.