SFI GOVERNANCE & SOUND DECISION-MAKING
SFI Inc. is governed by the 18-member SFI Board of Directors. Governance of SFI is structured purposefully to ensure equal voting power to environmental, social, and economic sectors.
SFI Board members include executive-level representatives of conservation organizations, academic institutions, educators, public officials, Black Americans, as well as those representing worker rights, Indigenous Peoples, forest owners, managers, and the forest products sector. This diversity reflects a variety of interests in the forestry community in support of a world that values and benefits from sustainably managed forests.
The SFI Board sets SFI’s strategic direction and is responsible for overseeing SFI’s work in standards, conservation, community, and education. The Board is composed of leaders that represent environmental, social, and economic interests. The SFI Board approves the SFI Standards following a multi-layered, robust, and transparent process of standards development, technical review, and consultation involving 1000s of points of input.
With this intentional mix of voices our governance is inclusive, diverse, transparent, and accountable.
SOCIAL SECTOR
Board members representing the social sector, which includes community or social interest groups like universities, labor, family forest owners or government agencies:
SAM COOK
Executive Director of Forest Assets
North Carolina State University
North Carolina
ASHLEY HOFFMAN
Executive Director
Kentucky Association for Environmental Education
Kentucky
LENNARD JOE
Chief Executive Officer
BC First Nations Forestry Council
British Columbia
PHIL RIGDON
Superintendent
Yakama Nation Department of Natural Resources
Washington
HEATHER SLAYTON
Assistant Commissioner and State Forester
Tennessee Department of Agriculture, Division of Forestry
Tennessee
BOB WALLS
Chief of Staff, Woodworkers Department
International Association of Machinists and Woodworkers
Minnesota
Ex Officio Liaison
ELLEN SHULTZABARGER
Associate Deputy Chief
USDA Forest Service
Pennsylvania
ENVIRONMENTAL SECTOR
Board members representing the environmental sector, which includes non-profit environmental or conservation organizations:
DAN LAMBE (Chair)
Chief Executive
Arbor Day Foundation
Nebraska
TERRY BAKER
CEO
Society of American Foresters
Washington, DC
DR. TRACY FARRELL
CEO, IUCN-US
Director, IUCN North America Office
International Union for Conservation of Nature
Washington, DC
CATHERINE GRENIER
President and CEO
Nature Conservancy Canada
Ontario
CAITLYN POLLIHAN
Executive Director
International Society of Arboriculture
Georgia
ECONOMIC SECTOR
Board members representing the economic sector, which includes the forest, paper and wood products industry or other for-profit forest ownership or management entities:
DAVID GRAHAM (Vice-Chair)
President
Weyerhaeuser Company Limited
British Columbia
MICHAEL P. DOSS (Immediate Past Chair)
President and CEO
Graphic Packaging International Inc.
Georgia
BRENT KEEFER
(SECRETARY-TREASURER)
Chief Executive Officer
American Forest Management, Inc.
North Carolina
ARSEN KITCH
President & CEO
Clearwater Paper Corporation
Washington
GEORGE EMMERSON
Chairman
Sierra Pacific Industries
California
SUSAN YURKOVICH
President and CEO
Canfor Corporation
British Columbia
