Consultant Profile

Areas of Special Competence

2011 to present – Proprietor of Blue Ox Forestry, Portland, Oregon, USA
2004-2010 – Research Scientist, USDA Forest Service, Portland, Oregon, USA
2001-2004 – Founder and proprietor of Blue Ox Forestry, Portland, Oregon, USA
1999-2001 – President & CEO, World Forestry Center, Portland, Oregon, USA
1994-1999 – Deputy Director General for Research, Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Bogor, Indonesia
1992-1994 – Forestry Officer, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy
1986-1992 – Professor, School of Forestry, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA
1985-1986 – Freelance writer, South Pasadena, California, USA
1983-1985 – Senior Scientist, Forest Sector Project, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria
1980-1983 – Professor of Forest Engineering, University of Dar es Salaam, Morogoro, Tanzania
1978-1980 – Associate Professor, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
1972-1978 – Assistant Professor of Forest Engineering, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA
1971-1972 – Operations Research Analyst, Fibreboard Corporation, San Francisco, California, USA
1970-1971 – Operations Research Analyst, Pope & Talbot Timber Co., Portland, Oregon, USA
1965-1969 – Forest Engineer, Willamette Industries, Inc., Dallas, Oregon, USA

2004-2010 – Coordinator of Division 3 (Forest Operations) and member of the Board of Directors of IUFRO, the International Union of Forest Research Organizations, Vienna, Austria
2004 to present – Honorary member of the Board of Directors of the Tropical Forest Foundation, Alexandria, Virginia, USA
1999-2002 – Courtesy appointment as Professor of Forest Engineering, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA