Thanh Cao

About

* 20 years in forestry sector and working with forest and wood companies: Forest restoration; private sector engagement in sustainable forest plantation; consultation on legal system on forestry; forest products business and marketing; policies consultations. * 12 years in working with international projects of forest sectors: Promotion on sustainable and responsible wood businesses; increasing efficiencies of forest plantation and wood processing; legal and due diligence system (DDS); sustainable wood consumption; business linking. * 12 years in working with magazine and website and data statistic on forestry sector.

Experience

• Secretary at PROMOTION OF SUSTAINABLE DOMESTIC WOOD CONSUMPTION IN VIETNAM
  Dec 2021 - Present · 4 yrs 7 mos

• Increasing efficiency of acacia plantation and timber processing industry in Vietnam at ITTO | International Tropical Timber Organization
  Jun 2018 - Present · 8 yrs 1 mo

• Sustainable and responsible trade promoted to wood processing at WWF-UK
  Jan 2010 - Present · 16 yrs 6 mos

  Sustainable and Responsible timber trading between China, India and Vietnam

• Supporting wood households to business registration and compliance with timber legality requirements at FAO
  Jul 2020 - Oct 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Consultant of Forest and Wood Industry at Vietnam Timber and Forest Product Association (VIFORES)
  Jan 2010 - Oct 2021 · 11 yrs 10 mos

  √ Provide forestry related policies consultation: Forest Law and regulations; √ Prepare and provide wood enterprises of reports on market trends and analysis; √ Consultation for wood companies on business linking and marketing; import and exports; √ Prepare articles on website and magazine; √ Prepare guidance on international regulation on timber (EUTR, Lacey Act); Vietnam Timber Legality Assurance System (VNTLAS); √ Provide consultation on national timber standards; √ Engaging private sectors into sustainable forest plantation and management; √ Preparing proposal and fundraising activities.