Oliver is a seasoned industry analyst and consultant, boasting over two decades of expertise in the global pulp and paper sector. Since joining Hawkins Wright in 2007, he has played a pivotal role as one of the editors of Pulpwatch, the firm's monthly newsletter. He is also the co-author of the Outlook for Market Pulp service and the principal author of the Outlook for Dissolving Pulp. His leadership in consultancy projects spans feasibility studies for pulp mills across Latin America, Russia, and Southeast Asia, and he is a frequent presenter at industry conferences.

One of the UK's leading authorities on globalisation and trade policy, David Henig has been a Director with the think-tank ECIPE based in London and Brussels since March 2018. His work has particularly focused on placing UK and EU policy in a global context, recently publishing a landmark paper on how the new world economy evolved and functions, and with an increasing focus on relations with China and the US under Trump. He also writes a regular column for the trade news service Borderlex, and makes frequent media and conference appearances. Prior to joining ECIPE David worked on trade and international business policy for the UK government, including spending three years focused on EU US TTIP negotiations.

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Tom is the Managing Director of Hawkins Wright. Over the past 25 years he has undertaken regular private client consultancy assignments on a wide range of topics related to the pulp and paper sector. He is the co-author of the Outlook for Market Pulp and Pulpwatch and is the principal author of the Asian multi-client studies. Foremost amongst these Defining the China Market for Pulp Paper Board was first published in 2002 and enjoys industry-wide recognition. Tom has also helped to establish two major events in the industry calendar - London Symposium in association with the BWPA, and Shanghai Pulp Week in association with CPICC. Tom travels widely, both in the course of market research and also as a frequent speaker to private meetings and industry conferences.

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Mr. Cordeiro is a Forest Engineer and Business Administrator (MBA). He has all-embracing knowledge of the forest-based industry value chains and more than 30-years’ experience in management consulting for the pulp, paper, packaging and forest-based related industries. He has led and participated in significant strategic and business intelligence studies for global industrial players. Mr. Cordeiro has strong strategic planning skills evidenced by the large strategic assignments with AFRY’s most demanding clients. During his career he has been involved in a wide variety of assignments including corporate strategy, mergers & acquisitions, due diligence and technical audits, economic feasibility studies, technological assessments, plantation-forest related strategies as well as pulp & paper and bio-economy product market assessments. Mr. Cordeiro client’s portfolio includes major international pulp, paper and packaging companies, but also medium-sized industry operators, start-ups, financial investors and governmental institutions. He works principally with AFRY’s key international customers particularly those in the Nordic countries, South and North America, Iberia and South East Asia