Tim Rollinson
Tim is Director General and Deputy Chair of the Forestry Commission. He joined the Forestry Commission in 1976 after completing a degree in Ecological Science at Edinburgh University.
Tim worked as a forest manager in the south of England before moving to work in forestry research. He worked in a variety of policy roles including land use planning in the late 1980s at the height of the ‘Flow Country’ dispute when large scale commercial forestry programmes were in conflict with nature conservation interests. He has spent his subsequent career developing a sustainable approach to the management of forests in the UK and worldwide.
He has represented the UK government at United Nations and international meetings. He is a Patron of Tree Aid, and a Trustee of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.
Tim is passionate about sharing Britain’s hard won experience in lage scale reforestation to benefit other countries and he helped found, and now chairs, the Global Partnership on Forest Landscape Restoration. The focus of his current work is on the role of forests in climate change with a particular emphasis on restoring the world’s forest cover, and the role of forests in improving our quality of life, especially in towns and cities.
He is a past President of the Institute of Chartered Foresters, a Chartered Environmentalist, a Fellow of the Institution of Agricultural Engineers and a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute.
