Mika Mustonen appointed as new Head of Office of EFINORD

   Moscow. Feb 01, 2010. /Lesprom Network/. Mr Mika Mustonen has been appointed Head of Office of the North European Regional Office of the European Forest Institute (EFINORD). Mr Mustonen will start his term in April 2010, Metla said in a press release received by Lesprom Network.

EFINORD will gradually start its activities during the spring 2010. EFINORD will have its premises at the Danish Forest and Landscape Research Institute (S&L) in Copenhagen. The post of the Head of EFINORD is seconded by the Finnish Forest Research Institute (Metla).

Mr Mustonen has worked as a Senior Researcher at the Finnish Forest Research Institute, Metla, for the past six years. During 2001-2004, Mr Mustonen worked at EUROSTAT, where he took part in the conceptual development of Community forestry statistics in collaboration with UN/ECE, FAO and ITTO within the Intersecretariat Working Group (IWG) on Forestry Statistics, and was managing and supervising the development and implementation of database for managing and storing forestry statistics.

The European Forest Institute (EFI) is an international organisation conducting forest research and forest research networking at the pan-European level. The Institute is growing intensively and has currently established Regional Offices in Spain, Germany and France. EFINORD is the fourth regional office to be launched in Europe. EFI also has four research programmes running at the Headquarters in Joensuu, Finland.