UNFF Major Group Focal Points

The UNFF facilitates a Major Group focal point system with focal points from each of the major groups:

  • Business and industry
  • Children and youth
  • Farmers and small landowners
  • Indigenous peoples
  • Local authorities
  • Non-governmental organisations (NGOs)
  • Scientific and technological community
  • Women
  • Workers and trade unions

This focal point system is intended to be a fluid, flexible mechanism to help facilitate coordination, planning and discussion on UNFF-related issues within and between major group networks. If you are interested in participating in UNFF discussions on behalf of your major group, please contact your relevant UNFF focal point.

Business and industry

Derek Nighbor (he/him)
President and CEO
Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC)
Suite 420–99 Bank Street
Ottawa, Ontario
K1P 6B9
E-mail: @email

Bernard de Galembert (he/him)
Director, Forest Solution Group & Member of the WBCSD Extended Leadership Group
Avenue du Bouchet 2bis
1209 Geneva, Switzerland
Phone: +41795465832
E-mail: @email

Children and youth

Salma Omotara (she/her)
Head of UNFF Sub-Commission 2024-2026
International Forestry Students’ Association *
Co-chair IAF MG ICM
Phone: +123 48189055626
E-mail: @email

Alternate
Rizka Afif Muhammad (he/him)
E-mail: @email

Farmers and small forest landowners

Mia Crawford (she/her)
Forest Director EU and International Affairs
Federation of Swedish Farmers / Family Forest Owners
Board of Directors of the International Family Forestry Alliance
Co-chair IAF MG ICM
Franzéngatan 1B, SE-105 33 Stockholm
Mobile: +46 73 598 75 88
E-mail: @email
website

Ghanshyam Pandey (he/him)
Tulsipur Sub Metropolitan City
Ward Number 8, Ashwara
Dang, Nepal
Mobile: +977 9851002110
E-mail: @email

Alternate
Bharati Kumari Pathak (she/her)
Women Rights and Resources Network
E-mail: @email

Indigenous people

Lucy Mulenkei (she/her)
Executive Director
Indigenous Information Network
Former Posta Flats, Block A12
Ngong Rd, Adams Arcare- Elgeyo Marakwet Rd
Tel: +254 020 2499389/9. +254 798678321 /+254 722914614
P.O. Box 74908-00200 Nairobi, Kenya
E-mail: @email
website

Daniel Amor Ngoranaman Samangun (he/him)
E-mail: @email

Alternate
Alice Mathew (she/her)
E-mail: @email

Local authorities (vacant)

Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs)

Andrey Laletin (he/him)
Director Friends of Siberian Forests
Co-chair IAF MG ICM
E-mail: @email

Martha Nunez (she/her)
Coordinadora Ecuatoriana de Organizaciones para la Defensa de la Naturaleza y el Medio Ambiente
E-mail: @email

Alternate
Elena Kreuzberg (she/her)
E-mail: eakreuzberg@gmail.com

Scientific and technological community

Ernest G. Foli (he/him)
Forestry Research Institute of Ghana
Forest and Climate Change Division
University Post Office Box UP63
Kumasi, Ghana
Phone: +233 262 714 148
E-mail: @email

Alejandra Martinez-Salinas (she/her)
Leader, Forests and Biodiversity in Productive Landscapes Research Unit
CATIE (Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center)
Sede Central, CATIE. Cartago, Turrialba 30501, 
Costa Rica
E-mail: @email

Alternate
Adejoke Akinyele (she/her)
Professor of Tree Improvement and Silviculture
Department of Forest Production and Products, University of Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria
E-mail: @email
Mobile: +2348025481700
WhatsApp: +2348077625399

Women

Fernanda Rodrigues (she/her)
E-mail: @email

Cecile Bibiane Ndjebet (she/her)
African Women’s Network for Community Management of Forests (REFACOF)
E-mail: @email

Alternate
Danièle Ramiaramanana (she/her)
E-mail: @email

Workers and trade unions (vacant)