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Harald Blaha
Market Research Manager
Mondi Business Paper
Austria
Harald Blaha, born in 1972, started his career as data analyst at Konso International, an Austrian market research company in 1991. The focus of this company was on research projects for multinational fast moving consumer goods companies, which used Vienna at this time as bridgehead for market research projects in Eastern Europe. 1999 he joined AC Nielsen in Austria as a Senior Research Consultant for customized research, where he
focussed on building price/demand models for various business sectors and brand equity models.
In 2001 he started working for Neusiedler AG, which has been rebranded to Mondi Business in 2005. In this postion he is responsible for various types of projects from brand equity measurement to market sizing.
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Steinar Juel
Chief Economist
Nordea, Norway
Steinar Juel, age 56, is chief economist of Nordea Norway. He has been with the bank since 1991 as chief economist most of the time, but for a period of five years he was responsible for business development in the retail part of the bank. When joining Nordea (then Christiania Bank) in 1991, he came from a position in EFTA (European Free Trade Association) in Geneva. Prior to EFTA he was head of the Economic Department in the Norwegian Bankers´ association, and worked as economist in Norges Bank and the Norwegian Ministry of Finance.
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Marco Mensink
Energy & Environment Director
CEPI, Belgium
Marco Mensink holds a Masters of Science Degree in Forestry and Business Management from the Agricultural University of Wageningen in the Netherlands.Before joining CEPI in March 2006, he worked for 6 years as Energy & Environment Director at the Royal Netherlands Paper and Board Association, also representing the Dutch industry in Brussels.
Mr Mensink started his career at Ernst & Young Management Consulting, working there for 6 years in Environmental Management and assessing the environmental issues in mergers and acquisitions.
In CEPI, he is responsible for the energy and environment issues vis a vis the EU institutions, presenting the industries interests. Key energy issues at the moment are Energy market liberalisation, the EU emission trading system and bio-energy issues. Key environmental issues are REACH, the paper industry BREF, Green public procurement and Environmental data management, including carbon footprint accounting. On behalf of CEPI, he is the chairman of the FTP Biorefinery taskforce.
Mr Mensink is a Dutch national, born in 1968, married and has two children. He is now living in Brussels.
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Graham Moore
Head of Strategic Consultancy
Pira International Ltd, UK
Graham Moore has over twenty years experience of the paper and board industry, encompassing process and product knowledge, wet end chemistry, recycling, deinking, product performance and strategic futures related research.
He has carried out many technical and strategic based consultancies for clients around the world. He has been a major contributor to Pira International´s strategic futures based research programme that examined the issues and technology trends that affect the future of the paper, packaging and print sectors. For example, ´Nanotechnology in the paper, printing and packaging industries´.
His technical background is in chemistry and his research field for his PhD was the chemistry and synthesis of derivatives of chitosan.
He has authored many papers and publications, including a number of books, e.g. Wet End Chemistry Strategies, Non Wood Fibres and Pulp and Paper Five-Year Technology Forecast. He has also contributed to other publications including the EC COST publication, ´Paper Recycling´. He is a regular contributor to Pulp and Paper International.
He is a member and Fellow of TAPPI (USA), member and non-executive director of PITA (UK) and a member of PRIMA. He represents the UK on the European COST programme for Forests and Forest Products and has acted as an evaluator for the EC and the Finnish Academy of Science. He is currently vice chairman of a COST Action examining deinking. He has also acted as an external examiner for Manchester and Reading Universities and been an invited lecturer at Lappeenranta University of Technology in Finland and Seoul University in South Korea. He has appeared on ´Shop Talk´ on BBC Radio 4 discussing the impact of nanotechnology on packaging.
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Richard Owers
Marketing Director
Pureprint Group, UK
Richard Owers is Marketing Director of Pureprint Group, one of the UK´s leading corporate printing companies. He is also Sales and Marketing Director of Beacon Press, part of Pureprint Group, which has been recognised as the UK´s leading environmental printing company for over 10 years.
Richard studied Business Studies with Printing at the London College of Printing and graduated in 1977. He has worked for 30 years in the areas of corporate and creative printing for St Ives Westerham Press, ultimately as Sales Director, for The White Dove Press as Managing Director and now Beacon Press, part of Pureprint Group.
He is a member of the British Printing Industries Federation Environmental Group currently working on proposals for an eco label for printed products and also sits on the WWF GFTN Paper Group in the UK. He is the main board director at Pureprint Group with responsibility for environmental strategy and corporate social responsibility.
Richard is married with two sons, William and Henry, and can still beat them on the golf course - but not as often as he would like.
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David Powlson
Consultant
Pöyry Forest Industry Consulting Ltd, UK
David works for Pöyry Forest Industry Consulting as Consultant in their London Office, with a background in the paper industry. He studied Paper Science with Management at Manchester University and followed this with a year working for the Technical University of Dresden in Germany in Paper Research.
He is first mill experience was when he came back to the UK to work for BPB at their Purfleet Mill (near London) making gypsum liner, where he stayed for some seven years. He was involved in numerous mill developments - to the machine, fibre plant and effluent plant. By the time David left the mill in 2003 he had been promoted to a production manager.
He then went to work for the UK Government´s recycling function, known as Wrap where he was the UK´s Paper Recycling Manager. In this role he managed paper related projects for Wrap ranging from euro 25m investments to communication activities.
Now at Pöyry since earlier in 2006, David works with and for paper industry, having undertaken numerous assignments throughout Europe and across the industry, with some particular focus on the recycling.
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Clive Suckling
Director Global Forest Paper & Packaging Industry Practice
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, UK
Clive Suckling is a graduate of Oxford University and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
Clive has over 20 years experience in advising international companies on mergers, acquisitions and disposals, capital markets transactions, cross-border investment and corporate reporting.
Through his earlier responsibility for developing PwC´s business in Scandinavia, Clive has worked with many of the world´s leading paper companies based in that region over the past 20 years. He has also acted for a number of other European and non-European paper companies on cross-border investment strategies and acted in both advisory and support roles for private equity houses.
Since 1 July 2005, he has been Director of PwC´s Global Forest, Paper & Packaging practice, with responsibility for developing the firms´ thinking and services towards that sector on a global basis.
He is a regular speaker on forest, paper and packaging industry issues and trends at conferences and events across the world and has authored several published articles on industry developments. He is based in London.
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Gary Thomson
Senior Market Consultant
EMGE & Co. Ltd.
UK
Gary Thomson, 37, has been reporting on paper markets since 1993, when he began his career at the PPI This Week paper industry newsletter. In more than 14 years since then, he has been the Editor or Managing Editor of three global paper industry publications: PPI This Week, Papermaker and International Paper World. Over the years, he has analysed markets including Market Pulp, Wastepaper, Newsprint, Publication Papers, Fine Papers, Corrugated Packaging and Folding Boxboard.
Gary became EMGE´s Senior Market Consultant over three years ago, and he plays a central role in the company´s market research projects and forecast reports.
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Robert Wilson
Chairman
Pöyry Forest Industry Consulting Ltd, UK
Robert Wilson holds a Masters degree in Business and Forest Management from Oregon State University, as well as a BSc (Forestry) Hons from the Australian National University. Robert started his career in 1973 as Operations Manager at Associated Pulp and Paper Mills, Australia in Papua New Guinea. In 1981, he joined Sandwell Consulting, Canada, as Senior Consultant and two years later he joined Shell International Petroleum Company as Project Manager in the Non-Traditional Business Division.
He returned to the paper world in 1988 at Arjo Wiggins Appleton, with assignments in the UK, Spain and France as Group Business Development Manager and Commercial and Forestry Director. In 1997, he became President of Jaakko Pöyry Management Consulting in the UK and is now Chairman of Pöyry Forest Industry Consulting Ltd.
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