INTRODUCING THE KOLI FORUM SPEAKERS

Koli Forum 2009 will bring together speakers who are representative of top management in both business and policy making.

Confirmed Forum speakers include: the Nobel prize-winner and former President of Finland Martti Ahtisaari; the Deputy Director General of DG Agriculture and Rural Development Loretta Dormal Marino; the Research Director of Forest Cluster Ltd. Lars Gädda; the Director of the Secretariat of the United Nations Forum on Forests Jan McAlpine; the Chairman of the Board of both Royal Dutch Shell and Nokia Jorma Ollila; the Head of Liaison Unit Oslo of the Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe Arne Ivar Sletnes, and the CEO of Sappi Fine Paper Europe Berry Wiersum, to name but a few.

– There is little of more importance at this moment than the discovery of new, socially and economically sustainable solutions that will point the way for long-term future development says Pekka Hallberg, President of the Supreme Administrative Court of Finland and Chairman of the Koli Forum Advisory Board. His proposal of a Koli Forum has won broad support from a wide range of opinion-leaders.

– The long-term prosperity of Europe depends on the extent to which the continent recognises the importance of considering natural resources as a basis for development and decision-making, says Hallberg who will chair the first plenary session of the Koli Forum. 

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