Africa Team
Who We Are / The New Forests Company
Willem Olivier - Forestry Economist
Willem was born in Cape Town, South Africa in 1945 and obtained a BSc. (Hons) Forestry degree at the University of Stellenbosch during 1969. He had 11 years working with the South African forestry department and then 18 years with Sappi managing large-scale plantations of eucalyptus and pine in South Africa, ending his Sappi career as General Manager of Mpumalanga Region, where he was responsible for 136,000 hectares of forest producing pine pulpwood, eucalypt mining timber and eucalypt pulpwood. He was for four years President of the Southern African Institute for Forestry during which time he edited the definitive two-volume Forestry Handbook.