Marsh Hall Rotunda
360 Prospect St.

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Speaker: Bill Banzhaf

President, Sustainable Forestry Board

speaking on \"The State of Forest Certification in North America from an SFI Perspective\"

Bill Banzahf is President of the Sustainable Forestry Board, the 15-member body which oversees the Sustainable Forestry Initiative ® Standard, the most widely used forest certification standard in North America. In addition to establishing the standard against which forest landowners may measure their environmental performance, the SFB also establishes the principles against which third-party independent certifications under the SFIS are conducted.

Prior to his current position, Bill was Executive Vice-President, Society of American Foresters for four years, and before that he served first as a Natural resource and policy analyst and later President of George Banzhaf & Company, a consulting firm with a national practice specializing in forest land valuation and present and future projections of sustainable wood supply for the forest products industry, and natural resource policy studies at both the state and national levels to encourage community development.

Bill holds a BA in History/Political Science from the University of Colorado and a BSF in Forestry from the University of Michigan.