Paul Hol

Personal background

Paul Hol is the managing director of FORM International and a senior forestry advisor, specialised in Sustainable Forest Management, forestry investments, reforestation and forest certification.

Mr. Hol was involved in setting up the forest certification standards from the beginning. He is mainly involved in project management of sustainable forest management (such as FSC and PEFC) plantation investments and nature conservation.

Key qualifications

Sustainable Forest Management
Reduced Impact Logging Techniques
Forestry Investments
Forestry Ecology
Social Forestry
Reforestation
Forest Certification

Selected projects

Project director FSC certification project in Indonesia (PSI programme)
Project director FSC certification project in Cameroon of Wijma company
Project director for FSC certification project in Guyana (for Foundation DOEN)
PEFC Conformity Assessment of the Swedish and Finnish PEFC Forest Certification Scheme (2000-2005)
Project director for a RIL training for WWF in Cameroon and Gabon
Validation/Taxation of Forest Plantations in Costa Rica (Private company)