Kevin Jones

Kevin serves as PSC Economic North representative. He lives in Wales in the UK where he manages his own small woodland and organic farm. Having qualified with a BSc Hons Degree in Ecological Science (Edinburgh University) and MSc Forestry (Oxford University) he went on to qualify as a Chartered Forester with the UK Institute of Chartered Foresters. He then worked as a forest manager in a variety of contexts including community forestry in Africa, management of historic landscapes, nature conservation forests, and commercial forest management. He carried out his first FSC forest audit in 1995 for FSC accredited certification body Soil Association Certification Ltd and eventually became the Director of their global forest certification programme before retiring from that role in 2022. Having carried out forest and chain of custody audits in over 60 countries from all regions in the world, written forest management standards and quality management systems to comply with FSC and ISO accreditation requirements, and actively contributed to FSC policy development, he is now seeking to give something back to the FSC system based on the experienced reality of certification on the ground. In his spare time, he tries to surf on the wooden surfboard he made from FSC timber and enjoys music festivals.