Association Management

Executive Board Member

Richard P. Vlosky, Ph.D., FIWSc.
Richard P. Vlosky, Ph.D., FIWSc.
Director & Professor, Louisiana Forest Products Development Center
Crosby Land and Resources Endowed Professor in Forest Sector Business Development
Louisiana State University Agricultural Center
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Phone: (225) 578-4527; Fax: (225) 578-4251; Cell: (225) 223-1931
Email: rvlosky@agcenter.lsu.edu

Richard Vlosky is Director of the Louisiana Forest Products Development Center and Crosby Land and Resources Endowed Professor in Forest Sector Business Development at the Louisiana State University Agricultural Center in Baton Rouge.

He received his Ph.D. in Wood Products Marketing at Penn State University, an M.S. in International Forest Products Trade from the University of Washington and a B.S. in Natural Resources and Forest Management from Colorado State University.

His areas of research and consulting include: biofuels/bioprocessing & bioenergy, domestic and international forest products marketing and business development, certification & green marketing, eBusiness and eCommerce.

He has authored or co-authored over 135 refereed publications, 15 book chapters and 4 books, and has made over 350 presentations on a variety of topics in the U.S. and 28 countries.

Dr. Vlosky is President-Elect of the Forest Products Society, Board Member of CORRIM (Consortium for Research on Renewable Industrial Materials (CORRIM), Sector Leader-Wood Products for the Louisiana Institute for Biofuels and Bioprocessing (LIBBi), and Louisiana Representative for the Southern Bioenergy Working Group.

Internationally, he is the United States delegate for the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) Research Group on Forest Products Marketing and Business Development; President-Elect of the Association of Wood Processing and Furniture Manufacturing in Zagreb, Croatia and Adjunct Professor at the University of Timisoara in Romania. For 10 years up until 2014, he was the Leader of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe’s Team of Specialists on Sustainable Forest Products. He remains a U.S. delegate as well as being an Outside Expert on the Wood Energy Team.

About Association

 

Association Management

 
President

Andreja Pirc Barčić, Ph.D.
Andreja Pirc Barčić, Ph.D.

 
Candidate for President

Jan Parobek, Ph.D.
Jan Parobek, Ph.D.

 
Executive Board Members

Hubert Paluš, Ph.D.
Hubert Paluš, Ph.D.

Richard P. Vlosky, Ph.D., FIWSc.
Richard P. Vlosky, Ph.D., FIWSc.

Assoc. prof. Marek Potkány, Ph.D.
Marek Potkány, Ph.D.

 
General Secretary

Prof. Denis Jelačić, Ph.D.
Denis Jelačić, Ph.D.