• Brazilian; born on April 5th, 1948; married; living in Rio Grande do Sul, South of Brazil
• From 1967 onwards: wide professional experience in different areas of knowledge in the forestry, pulp and paper and wood panel/board sectors
• One of the most renowned worldwide experts about the forestry and utilization of the eucalyptus
• Author of the Eucalyptus Online Book & Newsletter and PinusLetter, freely available to whom may be interested to receive via the web (by registration in this site)
• Honoris causa Doctor by the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM / Brazil)
• Master of Science in pulp & paper (State University of New York – College of Environmental Science and Forestry and Syracuse University)
• Agronomist with major in Forestry (University of Sao Paulo / Brazil)
• Professor or former professor in several Brazilian Universities (UFV – Vicosa ; USP – Sao Paulo, UFSM – Santa Maria, PUC/RS – Porto Alegre, UNOESC – Santa Catarina, MacKenzie – Sao Paulo and UCS – Caxias do Sul)
• Mill and managerial experience: 3 years in CENIBRA and 19 years in Riocell, two of the major eucalyptus market pulp mills in Brazil
• Active in over 40 technical, institutional and managerial associations/organizations in a world basis, in about 50% of them guided to a position in the Board of Directors: ABTCP, ABECEL, ANFPC, ANPEI, BRACELPA, CENEX, CNI, Embrapa Florestas, FIERGS, IPEF, SIF, SINPASUL, TAPPI, ASQ, ASQC, ACOTEPAC, APPITA, ATCP Chile, ATIPCA, ABCQ, ABES, ANAVE, CPPA, FPRS, IMAM, IUFRO, NatGeo Society, PAPTAC, Finnish PI, PIMA, SAF – Society of American Foresters, SBS, SBPC, SPCI/Sweden, TAPPSA, TECNICELPA, TWO SIDES, ZELLCHEMING, WEF, WWF
• Over 600 published papers in journals, digital publications and conference proceedings
• Over 400 events attended, in most of the cases as speaker, teacher, exhibitor or event session chairman

More information about Celso Foelkel may be obtained in the following links:

- Curriculum Vitae Celso Foelkel (Adobe pdf file) May 2018 review

- About Celso Foelkel (Adobe pdf file) Executive profile. June 2019 review