Changes in the Coordination Council

During the last meeting of Silver Taiga Coordination Council held on May 05 the composition of the Council was changed and a new Chairman was elected.

Coordination Council is the supreme management body of the Silver Taiga Foundation, which carries out management of the Foundation activity and ensures the observance by the Foundation of the goals it was created to accomplish – defines the priority fields of activity, goals, and objectives of the Foundation; appoints the Foundation Director, defines his/her job duties; reviews and approves annual working plans and reports of the Foundation.

All the members of the Coordination Council participated in the meeting – Mikhail Karpachevski, Przemyslaw Majewski, Natalia Sedusova and Jeremy Williams. Silver Taigadirector Yuri Pautov was also invited. The Coordination Council members satisfied the statement of Jeremy Williams about his withdrawal from the Coordination Council since May 05, 2015. They expressed gratitude to Jeremy for his efficient and long term work as the Coordination Council Chairman and for the great contribution to the development of Silver Taiga Foundation. Jeremy Williams was elected to the Coordination Council membership in 2004 and since 2008 he was its Chairman.

Silver Taiga first director Przemyslaw Majewski was elected as a new Chairman of the Coordination Council. Przemyslaw Majewski had been working in Komi for seventeen years. He contributed a lot to the development of sustainable forest management in the Republic of Komi during this period. Since 2013 Przemyslaw Majewski has been living and working in Sweden.

Jeremy Williams has proposed Marcelo Levi as a new member of the Coordination Council. Marcelo is an international consultant and founding partner of Responsible Forestry Solutions (RFS), based in Toronto, Canada. RFS specializes in forest management and supply chain certification, as well as the evaluation of policies and programs that promote forest conservation and the participation of stakeholders in the benefits of active forest management.

Marcelo is also a Lead Auditor for forest management and chain of custody (FSC/PEFC), Marcelo has led extensive collaborative and multi-stakeholder consultation processes, including in his role as Director of Standards Development with FSC-Canada. During 1996-2004 he was one of the founders and coordinators of FSC Canada.