EFI Director

Marc Palahí is a leading expert on forests and global change, with a new vision of the transformational role forests can play in fighting climate change and developing a circular bioeconomy.

He has been Director of the European Forest Institute since 2015, driving its development as a pan-European science-policy platform, and working to connect knowledge to action at the interface of science, policy and business. Marc has a PhD in forestry and economics and his work, which has featured in Nature and other high-level scientific journals, focuses on the development of a sustainable circular bioeconomy that prospers in harmony with nature. Marc leads the Circular Bioeconomy Alliance established by His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales under his Sustainable Markets Initiative.

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Blog posts
EU forest strategy: adapt, innovate, employ	May 2021
A New Deal for European forests	April 2021
Why the world needs a 'circular bioeconomy' - for jobs, biodiversity and prosperity (World Economic Forum Agenda)	October 2020
On pandemics and forest fires	June 2020
Seeing the wood in the forests	April 2020
Bioeconomy: the missing link to connect the dots in the EU Green Deal	March 2020

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Director's letters to the EFI network
2021	February, March, May
2020	December, November, September, August, March, February
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Podcast
2019	Is bieconomy the answer to a sustainable and fair future?
	Coaching Talks podcast, hosted by Marc Siles. Listen on iTunes, Spotify, iVoox

Speeches and popular articles
Speech to Forest Europe Ministerial Conference	April 2021
De pandemias e indencios forestales	Opinion piece in El Pais	June 2020
The bioeconomy – bringing life to the center of our economy	Opinion piece in Revolve Media	March 2020

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