Speakers IFBC2022

Bin Mei

Duke University

Professor Of the Practice of Natural Resource Finance

Tomasz Kozlowski

European Investment Fund

Head of Mandate and Product Development

Andrzej Bednarski

Shandong Sun Paper

International Project Director

Mike Strzelecki

Manulife Investment Management

Managing Director, Business Development, Senior Timberland Portfolio Manager

Keith Black

FDP Institute

Managing and Program Director

Chung-Hong Fu

Timberland Investment Resources

Managing Director, Economic Research and Analysis

Karolina Chudy

Forest Business Analytics

CEO & Founder

Austin Himes

Mississippi State University

Assistant Professor

Aleksandra Antsugai

Alexandra Antsugai

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

Senior Environmental Advisor

Lawson Fite

Lawson Fite

Schwabe

Partner

Laura Merlini

Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association

MANAGING DIRECTOR, EMEA

Jacek Siry

University of Georgia

Professor in Forest Economics

Eric Cooperström

Manulife Investment Management

Managing Director, Impact Investing and Natural Climate Solutions

Asger Olesen

Asger Strange Olesen

Forest Stewardship Council

Chief Climate and Ecosystems Officer

Nabil Fawaz

Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency

Sector Manager, Agribusiness, Manufacturing, and Services Operations Group

Fred Cubbage

Frederick Cubbage

North Carolina State University

Professor in Forest Economics

Andy Hiegel

University of Georgia

Doctoral Candidate in Forest Business

Peter Chappell

Tilhill Forestry

Head of Investment and Property

Carsten Brinkschulte

Carsten Brinkschulte

Dryad Networks

Co-founder and CEO

Mark Willhite

World Forest Investment

President

Doug Jones

Remsoft

President

Aleksandra Holmlund

Omorica

Researcher in innovative finance for biodiversity protection

Phil Cottle

ForestRe

Head of Forestry

Robert Adamczyk

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

Senior Environmental Advisor

Krzysztof Wypij

Bureau Veritas

Forest Management Certification Technical Manager

David Evison

David Evison

University of Canterbury

Associate Professor in Forest Economics

Shauna Matkovich

The ForestLink

Founding Director

Antonio Carlos Arpini Tatagiba

Antonio Carlos Arpini Tatagiba

Inflor

Chief Executive Officer

Sven Kallen Life Terra

Sven Kallen

Life Terra Foundation

Co-founder and Secretary

Andreas Schnall

Forliance

CEO / Senior Consultant Land Use and Forestry

Lukas Schönach

Lukas Schönach

Descartes Underwriting

Senior Business Developer

Andreas Stephan

Andreas Stephan

Linnaeus University

Professor of Forest Industrial Economics

Bob Izlar

University of Georgia

Founding director of the University of Georgia Harley Langdale, Jr. Center for Forest Business

Maurice Ryan

Green Belt

Business Development Director

Frederic Fournier

Frédéric Fournier

Open Forest Protocol

CEO and Co-founder

Wendelin von Gravenreuth

Wendelin von Gravenreuth

MEAG a Munich Re Company

Senior Manager Global Forest Investments

Carlo Farina

Carlo Farina

CERN Pension Fund

Head of Real Estate and Private Markets

Doug Moore

PGIM Real Estate's Timberland Finance

Investment Vice President

Eimear McBride

IOB

Director of Digital and Innovation

Ian Cameron

Treeswift

Vice President of Operations

Dzintars Salavs

I Asset Management

Fund Manager

Charl de Villiers

Margules Groome Consulting

Director

Rafał Chudy

Forest Business Analytics

Founder and Chief Economist

Manoel de Freitas

Forest Engineer graduated at Federal University of Paraná, Business Administrator, graduated at Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas and with a postgraduate degree in Environmental Management from the Metropolitan Faculty of Campinas. Attended Development Course for Senior Executives at Darmouth School – USA.

He served as Executive for the American multinational in the forest products sector Champion International Corporation / International Paper. He acted as Director of several sectorial entities, among them, Forest Research and Studies Institute – IPEF / USP, FLORESTAR Fund, Brazilian Forestry Society. Author of several technical papers on the forestry sector. In the last few years, he has acted as a counselor and consultant, both for companies in Brazil and abroad.

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Keith Black

Keith Black currently serves as Managing Director of Content Strategy for the CAIA Association. He previously worked in hedge fund manager research at Ennis Knupp + Associates, as well as an assistant professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Prior experience includes commodities derivatives trading, stock options research and CBOE floor trading, and equity research.

Dr. Black has been published in The Journal of Wealth Management and The Journal of Alternatives Investments among others. He is the co-author of the second, third, and fourth editions of the CAIA Level I and Level II curriculum.

Dr. Black earned a BA from Whittier College, an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University, and a PhD from the Illinois Institute of Technology. He has earned the CFA, FDP, and CAIA designations.

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