Jeffrey Atkin

Jeffrey S. Atkin graduated from Amherst College in 1979. He was a principal of an exchange-based trading firm and two commercial petroleum trading companies. In 1991, he founded and developed Sustainable Forest Systems LP (SFS) and created one of the world's first integrated and sustainably managed tropical hardwood businesses, in Paraguay. More recently, SFS extended the concept in Bolivia, working extensively with community and indigenous groups to secure long-term timber leases and create an FSC-certified timber resource of approximately 550,000 hectares with associated processing capacity.