John C. Gordon

John C. Gordon is Chairman of Interforest, LLC, a sustainable forestry consulting firm, and a founder of the Candlewood Timber Group, Inc., a sustainable forestry company with forestland and operations in Argentina. He is also Pinchot Professor Emeritus of Forestry and Environmental Studies at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. He has authored, coauthored or edited over 150 papers and books, including 'Environmental Leadership: Developing Effective Skills and Styles' (Island...See more

John C. Gordon is Chairman of Interforest, LLC, a sustainable forestry consulting firm, and a founder of the Candlewood Timber Group, Inc., a sustainable forestry company with forestland and operations in Argentina. He is also Pinchot Professor Emeritus of Forestry and Environmental Studies at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. He has authored, coauthored or edited over 150 papers and books, including 'Environmental Leadership: Developing Effective Skills and Styles' (Island Press) and 'Environmental Leadership Equals Essential Leadership' (Yale Press) both with Joyce Berry. He has overseas experience in a variety of places, including India, Pakistan, China, Costa Rica, Brazil, Argentina, Finland and Scotland. He also is currently a partner in two start-up companies, Renewol, a bioenergy company producing a mobile methanol generator to use low quality wood and cellulosic waste, and Maximum Yield Associates, which does global searches for productive forest sites and advises on increasing forest plantation yields. See less