UEF MANAGEMENT

UEF Management | UEF Structure | External Representation


UEF is represented by a presidency, consisting of president, three vice presidents, secretary, assistant secretary and treasurer. Actual Presidency Structure is as follows:
The UEF Presidency for the period 2025 - 2028

From left to right: T. Baschny (Austria), M. Gustafsson (Sweden), T. Markiewicz (Poland), H. Jacobs (Germany), A. Petrakieva (Bulgaria), Tiina Eklund (Finland) and François-Xavier Nicot (France)
PresidentTomasz Markiewicz, Poland
 Email: tomasz.markiewicz[at]poznan.lasy.gov.pl
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 Responsibilities: Management and coordination contacts and activities with European Forestry NGO in European Forestry House. Forest Europe Process. A professional forester with 30 years of professional experience in the Polish State Forests. He is also professionally associated with the Poznan University of Life Sciences.
 
  
Vice PresidentsAnna Petrakieva, Bulgaria
 Email: anpetrakieva[at]gmail.com
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 Responsibilities: Homepage and homepage publishing, framework of information, Forest Communicators Network, New member activities. A forester with nearly 30 years of professional experience in the Bulgarian State Forest Agency. She is also a Forest pedagogy lecturer at the Sofia Forestry University.
 
  
Tiina Eklund, Finland
 Email: tiina.eklund[at]luva.fi
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 Responsibilities: UNECE Forest and Bioeconomy Section. Implement framework and information. Develop relationship with students. She has over 20 years of experience at METO - Forestry Experts’ Association where she’s responsible for communications and the forest education. Editor-in-chief of the magazine “Dependent on Nature”. Certified CIC measurer.
 
  
Hans Jacobs, Germany
 Email: jacobs[at]sh.oejv.de
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 Responsibilities: Expert Group on Forest and Forestry Stakeholder Platform. Develop contacts with European Commission on others matters. He has been working for more than 30 years in an official consulting association for private and commune forestry owners and has more than 20 years of experiences as president on different levels of the BDF, the German foresters association.
 
  
SecretaryMårten Gustafsson , Sweden
 Email: marten.gustavsson[at]mellanskog.se
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 Responsibilities: Secretary tasks. Expert Group on Forest-Based Industries. He has 30 years experience as forester in Swedish forest owners association, and 20 years in Swedish foresters association presidency.
 
  
Assistant SecretaryThomas Baschny, Austria
 Email: thomas.baschny[at]bmluk.gv.at
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 Responsibilities: Forest Communicators Network, Secretary tasks.He has been working for more than 40 years as officer in public service in the Austrian Federal Ministry for Forestry and he has more than 10 years of experiences as president of the Austrian Forest association VÖF.
 
  
TreasurerFrançois-Xavier Nicot, France
 Email: francois-xavier.nicot[at]onf.fr
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 Responsibilities: Treasurer duties, accounts, financing matters, legal entity in Belgium. A forester for 25 years in the service of French public forests, he is also a European affairs advisor and a specialist in financial regulations.
 
  
AuditorsLars Delfs Mortensen, Denmark
 Email: dm[at]dm.dk
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 Responsibilities: Certify the UEF accounts
 
  
Karin Hilfiker, Switzerland
 Email: karin.hilfiker[at]waldstudio.ch
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 Responsibilities: Certify the UEF accounts