After 11 years as Chair of the Australian Forest Products Association (AFPA) and decades involved at the top levels of Australia's forest industries, stalwart Greg McCormack has announced that he will step down from the role.
The AFPA Chairs are elected by the AFPA Directors. After a process conducted by the Nominations Subcommittee, AFPA Director Diana Gibbs was unanimously endorsed to take over from Greg McCormack.
An agro-economist, Diana Gibbs, has served on the AFPA Board since 2019.
The handover will occur following AFPA's 2022 Forest Industries Gala Dinner, in the Great Hall of Parliament House in Canberra on 14 September.
Greg McCormack said, “It has been an enormous honour to fill this leadership role and advance, with the AFPA staff, the mission of ensuring our sustainable, renewable forest industries take their rightful place in the mainstream of Australia’s thinking.
“It is now time for others to take forward the vision. I look forward to seeing even more success as our industries really carry so many answers to some of the world’s biggest problems.”
Diana Gibbs said, “It’s extremely humbling to step into the shoes of an industry statesman like Greg McCormack. For my part, I will continue, as Greg has done, to vigorously prosecute the role of forest industries as a crucial part of a carbon constrained future and a sustainable driver of economies.”
A media release will be distributed in due course.
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