Board of Directors


Current APFNet Board of Directors
 
Dr. Guan Zhi'ou (Chair)
Administrator, National Forestry and Grassland Administration, P. R. China
Term:2022-2025
Dr. John Innes (Vice-Chair)
Chair of Forest Management,Professor (former Dean) Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia, Canada
Term:2022-2025
Mr. W.T.B. Dissanayake
Additional Secretary, Ministry of Mahaweli Development and Environment, Sri Lanka
Term:2019-2026
Ms. Novia Widyaningtyas
Senior advisor to the Minister for Industry and International Trade, Ministry of Environment and Forestry, Indonesia
Term:2020-2024
Ms. Margaret M. Calderon
Professor and Director, Institute of Renewable
Natural Resources
College of Forestry and NaturalResources University of the Philippines Los Baños
Term:2020-2024
Mr. Mohd Ridza bin Awang
Director General, Forestry Department Peninsular Malaysia
Term:2022-2025
 
Mr. Chan Ponika
Deputy Director General, Forestry Administration, Cambodia
Term:2022-2025
Dr. Pem Narayan Kandel
Secretary, Ministry of Forests and Environment, Nepal
Term:2022-2025
Mr. Fan Kejun
Deputy Director General, Department of Natural Resources and Ecological Environment, Ministry of Finance, P. R. China(Non-voting Director appointed by the host economy)
Term:Since 2016
Dr. Lu De
Secretary of the APFNet Board
(Non-voting Director),
Executive Director of APFNet
Term:2017-2025
       

Former APFNet Board of Directors
 
Mr. Zhao Shucong (Chair)
President of the Chinese Society of Forestry,Former administrator, State Forestry Administration, P. R. China
Term:2015-2022
Mr. Chea Sam Ang
Deputy Director General, Forestry Administration, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Cambodia
Term:2015-2019
Mr. Pralong Dumrongthai
Deputy Director General, Royal Forest Department of Thailand
Term:2015-2019
Mr. Li Qiang
Market/Systems Analyst, International Tropical Timber Organization
Term:2015-2019
Mr. Wan Hasmah Wan Mohd.
Former Undersecretary, Biodiversity and Forestry Management, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Malaysia
Term:2015-2019
Prof. Rex Victor Oafallas Cruz
Professor and Director, Environmental Forestry Programme, College of Forestry and Natural Resources
University of the Philippines
Term:2015-2020
Dr. Ganesh Raj Joshi
Commissioner, Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority, Nepal
Term:2015-2020
Dr. Sadanandan E K Nambiar.A.O.
Hon. Fellow-CSIRO Forest Science, Canberra, Australia
Term:2015-2020
Mr. Grahame Applegate
Associate Professor, Principle Research Fellow,Tropical Forests and People Research Centre, Faculty of Arts, Business and Law University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia
Term:2015-2020
Mr. Patrick Bryan Durst
Formal Senior Forestry officer of FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific
Term:2015-2022
Mr. Jack Hurd
Conservation Director/Deputy Managing Director of the Asia-Pacific Region, The Nature Conservancy
Term:2015-2022
Mr. Stephen John Midgley
Director, Salwood Asia Pacific Pty Ltd, Australia
Term:2015-2022
Mr. John Leigh
(May 1953 - February 2023)
Former Executive Director of Forest and Wildlife Service, Peru
Term:2019-2023
Dr. C.T.S. Nair
Consultant (Former FAO official)
Term:2019-2023
Mr. Nor Akhirrudin Bin Mahmud
Director General of Forestry Peninsular Malaysia
Term:2019-2023
Mr. Zhang Yansong
Deputy Director General, Department of Agriculture, Ministry of Finance, P.R. China (Non-voting Director appointed by the host economy)
Term:2015-2016
Mr. Qu Guilin
Secretary of the APFNet Board (Non-voting Director),
Executive Director of APFNet
Term:2011-2017
   

Decisions
 1st Meeting of the Board of Directors
2nd Meeting of the Board of Directors
3rd Meeting of the Board of Directors
4th Meeting of the Board of Directors
5th Meeting of the Board of Directors
6th Meeting of the Board of Directors
7th Meeting of the Board of Directors