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About GLSTF 2024
Global Legal & Sustainable Timber Forum (GLSTF) 2024
GLSTF aims to increase networking, collaboration and business exchange among stakeholders including timber producers, buyers, the processing industry and market players, nationally and internationally, with a view to promoting sustainable forest management, building legal and sustainable forest products supply chains, facilitating the legal and sustainable use and trade of timber and wood products within a stable, transparent and predictable business environment, and contributing to sustainable development and climate change mitigation.
Together Towards Reliable and Effective Global Timber Supply Chains
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GLSTF 2024
Specialized Sub-forum
Specialized sub-forums are organized by partner agencies to contribute to the theme of the main forum. The selected topics include: timber legality and sustainability; sustainable timber resources, markets and trade; advanced technology and machinery for timber processing; green finance and innovative facilitating measures for green supply chains.
Previous Guests
Sheam Satkuru
ITTO Executive Director
Vincent U
President, Macao SAR Commerce and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM)
Rosalie Matondo
Minister of Forestry Economy, Republic of Congo
Noraihan Abdul Rahman
Malaysia Timber Council CEO
She Xuebin
Board Chairman & CEO, Nature Home (China) Co. Ltd. & Nature Wood Group Limited.
Ivonne Higuero
CITES Secretary General
Li Jiafeng
President of China Timber & Wood Products Distribution Association
Thomas Goebel
Secretary General, European Timber Trade Federation (ETTF)
Alain Karsenty
Senior researcher of CIRAD
Ivan Tomaselli
Founder and currently President, STCP Brazil
Françoise VAN DE VEN
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Tullia Baldassarri
Communications Leader, Interholco
Ngo Sy Hoai
Vice President & Secretary General, Vietnam Timber & Forest Products Association (VIFOREST)
Martin Nkie
Secretary General, SYNEFOR, Cameroon
Zhang Enjiu
Chairman of the Board, Treessun Holding Co., Ltd.
Zhang Yan
Vice Chairman of TATA Wooden Door Group
Ednei Blasius
President, CIPEM, Brazil
Siti Syaliza Mustapha
Deputy Secretary-General/COO of PEFC
Rupert Oliver
Director of Forest Industries Intelligence Ltd.-UK/ITTO Expert
Huang Jianjun
Chairman, Zhejiang Great Luck Trading Co, Ltd.
Bruno Guay
Advisor, Private Sector Engagement and Carbon Finance, Central African Forest Initiative (CAFI)
Krisdianto Sugiyanto
Director of Forest Product Processing and Marketing, MoEF, Indonesia
Cindy Cheng
Regional Director, FSC Asia-Pacific
Liu Nengwen
Chairman, National Forestry and Grassland Innovation Alliance on Wood Conservation Utilization
Peng Yanqing
Secretary-General, Puyang Modern Home Furnishing Industry Alliance, China
Frank Rogieri Almeida
President, National Forum for Forest-Based Activities (FNBF), Brazil
Banson Tang
Managing Director, Weinig (Yantai) Woodworking Technology Co., Ltd.
Lu De
Executive Director of APFNet
Dato Henry Lau
Chairman, Sarawak Timber Association, Malaysia
Luo Xinjian
Director General, Global Green Supply Chains Initiative (GGSC)
Preecha Ongprasert
Director of Forestry Foreign Affairs Office, Royal Forest Department, Thailand
Ralph Ridder
Head of Forest Policy Facility, GIZ Office China
Jean-Marie NTOUTOUME
Secretary General, Gabonese Forestry and Wood Industry Alliance (UFIGA)
Luo Hailong
President of Nankang Furniture Association
Guo Xiangyang
Chairman, Shenzhen SAMPO KINGDOM Household Co., Ltd.
Zhuang Bingchuan
Chairman, ALONG Limited, Gabon
Carole OGANDAGAS
Director, Ministry of Water and Forests, Gabon
Li Chongyu
Secretary-General, China Wood Protection Industry Association
Lu Wenming
Deputy Director General, INBAR
Hu Zhaoyu
Chairman, BONUS HARVEST SA GABON
Diego Montiel Oscura
Deputy Manager, Comisión Nacional Forestal, Mexico
Reasons to Participate
The participation of forestry ministers, leading timber companies’ representatives, and renowned international organizations’ representatives from various countries ensures the Forum's high level and substantive content.
GLSTF 2024 includes the main forum and four specialized sub-forums. In addition, there will be legal & sustainable timber industry display, B2B matchings, seminar on women power in the timber industry, youth leadership workshop, and several other side events.
Multiple international cooperation achievements will be released. And through building a platform for exchanges, display, and cooperation, the event will help to produce new outcomes for markets, products, technologies, brands, etc.
A wide range of significant and hot topics will be involved, such as new timber trade requirements and regulations, accurately matching supply and demand, market-facilitating measures, transboundary fusion, advanced technologies and equipment, green finance, etc.
We sincerely invite you to attend the Global Legal & Sustainable Timber Forum (GLSTF) 2024!Register Now
