{"id":97329,"date":"2025-05-04T20:29:47","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T18:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fba-events.com\/?page_id=97329"},"modified":"2026-01-15T10:57:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T09:57:22","slug":"david-brand","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fba-events.com\/index.php\/david-brand\/","title":{"rendered":"David Brand"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>David Brand, Managing Director, Arborcrest Investments<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>David Brand is the managing director at Arborcrest Investments, and a founding Chair of <br \/>the International Sustainable Forestry Coalition\u2014a group of private forestry companies <br \/>dedicated to supporting the transition to a nature positive bioeconomy.<\/p>\n<p>David also founded investment management business New Forests in 2005. He is<br \/>Executive Chair of New Forests\u2019 Board of Directors and the Chair of the company\u2019s<br \/>Investment Committees. David has over 40 years\u2019 experience in forestry investment,<br \/>forest management, science, and public policy. David is dedicated to innovative,<br \/>responsible investment strategies in the forest sector and associated assets.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, David was responsible for investment programs that integrated forest<br \/>management with emerging environmental market opportunities at Hancock Natural<br \/>Resources Group (HNRG). Prior to joining HNRG, David was the Executive General<br \/>Manager of State Forests of NSW where he led pioneering transactions in the<br \/>commercial development of environmental markets. From 1985-1995, David worked<br \/>with the Canadian Forest Service as a scientist, director of scientific programs, and<br \/>ultimately as national Director-General of Science and Sustainable Development.<\/p>\n<p>David has a PhD from the University of British Columbia and a Bachelor of Science in<br \/>Forestry from the University of Toronto in Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Brand, Managing Director, Arborcrest Investments David Brand is the managing director at Arborcrest Investments, and a founding Chair of&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":97333,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-97329","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>David Brand &#187; International Forest Business Conference<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fba-events.com\/index.php\/david-brand\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"David Brand &#187; 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