Special Issue: New Forest Business Frontiers 2024 – Call for Papers
The deadline for manuscript submissions is SEPTEMBER 30, 2024.
Speakers IFBC2022

Bin Mei
Duke UniversityProfessor Of the Practice of Natural Resource Finance

Tomasz Kozlowski
European Investment FundHead of Mandate and Product Development

Andrzej Bednarski
Shandong Sun PaperInternational Project Director

Mike Strzelecki
Manulife Investment ManagementManaging Director, Business Development, Senior Timberland Portfolio Manager

Keith Black
FDP InstituteManaging and Program Director

Chung-Hong Fu
Timberland Investment ResourcesManaging Director, Economic Research and Analysis

Karolina Chudy
Forest Business AnalyticsCEO & Founder

Austin Himes
Mississippi State UniversityAssistant Professor

Alexandra Antsugai
European Bank for Reconstruction and DevelopmentSenior Environmental Advisor

Lawson Fite
SchwabePartner

Laura Merlini
Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst AssociationMANAGING DIRECTOR, EMEA

Jacek Siry
University of GeorgiaProfessor in Forest Economics

Eric Cooperström
Manulife Investment ManagementManaging Director, Impact Investing and Natural Climate Solutions

Asger Strange Olesen
Forest Stewardship CouncilChief Climate and Ecosystems Officer

Nabil Fawaz
Multilateral Investment Guarantee AgencySector Manager, Agribusiness, Manufacturing, and Services Operations Group

Frederick Cubbage
North Carolina State UniversityProfessor in Forest Economics

Andy Hiegel
University of GeorgiaDoctoral Candidate in Forest Business

Peter Chappell
Tilhill ForestryHead of Investment and Property

Carsten Brinkschulte
Dryad NetworksCo-founder and CEO

Mark Willhite
World Forest InvestmentPresident

Doug Jones
RemsoftPresident

Aleksandra Holmlund
OmoricaResearcher in innovative finance for biodiversity protection

Phil Cottle
ForestReHead of Forestry

Robert Adamczyk
European Bank for Reconstruction and DevelopmentSenior Environmental Advisor

Krzysztof Wypij
Bureau VeritasForest Management Certification Technical Manager

David Evison
University of CanterburyAssociate Professor in Forest Economics

Shauna Matkovich
The ForestLinkFounding Director

Antonio Carlos Arpini Tatagiba
InflorChief Executive Officer

Sven Kallen
Life Terra FoundationCo-founder and Secretary

Andreas Schnall
ForlianceCEO / Senior Consultant Land Use and Forestry

Lukas Schönach
Descartes UnderwritingSenior Business Developer

Andreas Stephan
Linnaeus UniversityProfessor of Forest Industrial Economics

Bob Izlar
University of GeorgiaFounding director of the University of Georgia Harley Langdale, Jr. Center for Forest Business

Maurice Ryan
Green BeltBusiness Development Director

Frédéric Fournier
Open Forest ProtocolCEO and Co-founder

Wendelin von Gravenreuth
MEAG a Munich Re CompanySenior Manager Global Forest Investments

Carlo Farina
CERN Pension FundHead of Real Estate and Private Markets

Doug Moore
PGIM Real Estate's Timberland FinanceInvestment Vice President

Eimear McBride
IOBDirector of Digital and Innovation

Ian Cameron
TreeswiftVice President of Operations

Dzintars Salavs
I Asset ManagementFund Manager

Charl de Villiers
Margules Groome ConsultingDirector

Rafał Chudy
Forest Business AnalyticsFounder and Chief Economist
CAIA – THE NEXT DECADE OF ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENTS
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.
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.