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Bjorn Osterlof is Lead Auditor and Certification Manager for SSC. He has wide experience of introducing environmental management systems into both forestry and industrial companies. He has worked in Africa and in Eastern Europe and has been involved in certification training programmes for 5 years both in Sweden and overseas.

 

 

 

Bjorn Osterlof - CV

 

 

Proposed Position:

Chief Environmental Management Consultant

Name of Firm:

SvenskSkogsCertifiering

Profession:

Environmental Chemist

Date of Birth:

1957

Years with Firm/Entity:

3

Nationality:

Swedish

Membership in Professional Societies:

 

 

 

Key Qualifications:

Bjorn Osterlof has experience in the fields of Environmental Chemistry, Biotechnology, Medicine and Nature Conservation. He has worked in both the government sector as department director in the Environmental Protection Agency and in Industry where he was the environmental manager for Stora one of Sweden’s largest forestry and forest products companies.

 He has experience in environmental management both in the industrial field and in natural resource management. He has considerable experience as an auditor according to FSC principles  and has advised companies on achieving EMAS and ISO 14000 environmental management standards.

He has served on a wide variety of national committees in his field.

Member of the Swedish working group for standardisation of evaluation methods for LCA in the development of the ISO 14000 standards.

Chairman of the board of the Central Chemicals Register for the forest industry in Sweden.

Member of the committee for Environmental Monitoring at the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency..

Member of the board of the Industries Network for Product Ecology.

Member of the Research Committee for Metals and Organic Pollutants at IVL.

Participation in the working group for the development of environmental   indices in the EPS project (a life cycle analyses project at Industriförbundet       and IVL), with particular emphases on the effects of forestry.

Member of the board of Svensk SkogsCertifiering
Member of the board of ORGUT Consulting AB

Education:

 

Karolinska Institute

1977

MB

Karolinska Institute

1980

MSc Toxicology

Royal Institute of Technology

1984

MSc Chemical Engineering

Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

1995

Forest Nature Conservation Biology

 

Employment Record:

 

1996-

Self Employed

Consultant in Forest Environmental Management Systems

Sweden

 

Wildhorus

Kilombero Valley Timber Company ISO 14000 advisor

Tanzania

 

Horus Wildlife Consultants

FSC Certification Pre Assesments

South Africa

 

SSC

Certification Manager and Auditor

Sweden

 

 

 

 

1990-1996

Stora

Environmental Manager

Sweden

1989-1990

Environmental Protection Agency

Department Director

Sweden

1984-1989

KabiGen AB

Head of Department of Prokaryotic Process Develoment

 Sweden

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Languages:

Swedish, English, German

           

 

 

 

 

 

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