Bogor (Antara Bali) - The Bogor-based CIFOR (Center for International Forestry Research) has named Dr Peter Holmgren as its new director general.
CIFOR Outreach Manager Daniel Cooney said here Wednesday that the CIFOR board announced the selection after conducting an extensive international search.
Holmgren, a leading forestry, climate change and food security expert, will succeed Frances Seymour, who resigned as the CIFOR director general in November 2011, after leading the research center since 2006.
Holmgren will join CIFOR in September. He is currently the Director of the Climate, Energy and Tenure Division at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
Holmgren, a native of forest-rich Sweden, received his doctorate in forestry at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. He joined FAO in 1998 to lead the Global Forest Resources Assessment, which documents the state of global forest resources, their management and uses. Between 2003 and 2007 he was head of forest resources development at FAO.(IGT)
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CIFOR Outreach Manager Daniel Cooney said here Wednesday that the CIFOR board announced the selection after conducting an extensive international search.
Holmgren, a leading forestry, climate change and food security expert, will succeed Frances Seymour, who resigned as the CIFOR director general in November 2011, after leading the research center since 2006.
Holmgren will join CIFOR in September. He is currently the Director of the Climate, Energy and Tenure Division at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
Holmgren, a native of forest-rich Sweden, received his doctorate in forestry at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. He joined FAO in 1998 to lead the Global Forest Resources Assessment, which documents the state of global forest resources, their management and uses. Between 2003 and 2007 he was head of forest resources development at FAO.(IGT)
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