Lead forest economist, Unique land use
Dr. Christian Held is lead forest economist at Unique land use with a strong track record in forest sector investments, wood sector analytics, and market surveys to support forest sector investments. Christian worked as a professional tax and business administration consultant at the start of his career. He holds an MSc in forestry and a PhD in forest economics.
Christian has 20 years of experience in analyzing the global trends in forest investments and regularly conducts due diligence on forest industry assets. Christian has worked on appraising forest industry assets on behalf of DFIs and investment funds across Latin America and Sub-Sahara Africa. Further, Christian has led numerous national, regional, and global market studies for private clients and international organizations like World Bank/ IFC, ITTO and FAO.