Speaker

Mr. Jean-Christophe Claudon

Mr. Claudon is an international public servant working for the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) in Yokohama, Japan. He has been the statistical assistant at ITTO for 11 years. He is in charge of collecting and publishing production and trade data of primary and secondary tropical wood products of the ITTO members.  This data is published in the Biennial Review and Assessment of the World Timber Situation and freely downloadable from the ITTO website (http://www.itto.int/annual_review_output/). Mr. Claudon is in charge of promoting the ITTO statistical work and data collection through the organization of statistical workshops in tropical countries along with partner organizations such as FAO. He also has been in charge of the implementation of statistical projects (such as the development of national information systems for data collection on timber production) mainly in African French speaking countries such as Benin, Côte d’Ivoire and Mali.