Current Leaders of the AIChE 
Forest Products Division

The current leaders group for the Forest Products Division are shown below. In an August 2010 election, we added four new Directors, including an International Director to help us in international outreach. They are listed below with other current members of our leadership team. For biographical information, see our "meet the leaders" page. Note: Email addresses are displayed by a script from HiveLogic.com that makes it difficult for spammers to harvest them. For email to display, please allow your browser to run scripts for this page (allow "blocked content" in IE8 by clicking in the yellow bar above the page display).

Chair: Dr. B. V. Ramarao (starting Oct. 18, 2011) Professor Paper and Bioprocess Engineering Dept. SUNY College of Environmental Science & Forestry 310 Walters Hall Phone: (315) 470-6513 Fax: (315) 470-6593 E-mail:	Outgoing Chair: Dr. Jeffrey D. Lindsay (June 2007-Oct. 2011) Head of Intellectual Property Asia Pulp and Paper 8F Bund Center 222 Yan An Road (E) Shanghai, 200002 China e-mail:
Vice Chair: Dr. Sridharan (Shri) Ramaswamy Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering University of Minnesota 2004 Folwell Avenue St. Paul, Mn 55108 Tel: (612) 624 8797, Fax: (612) 625 6286 E-mail:	Secretary (and Acting Treasurer) Junyong Zhu, Ph.D Scientific Team Leader USDA Forest Products Laboratory One Gifford Pinchot Dr. Madison, WI 53726 Phone: (608) 231 - 9520 FAX: (608) 231 -9538 e-mail:
Treasurer Our Secretary, Dr. Junyong Zhu, is the Acting Treasurer as of Feb. 2010.	AIChE Headquarters Division Staff Liaison: Miriam Cortes-Caminero Executive Director Society for Biological Engineering AIChE 3 Park Avenue, 19th Floor New York, NY 10016-5991 e-mail:
Program Chair and Directors:
Program Chair: Shijie Liu Professor Paper Science and Engineering SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry 1 Forestry Drive Syracuse, NY 13210 Phone Number: 315-470-6885 Fax Number: 315-470-6945 Email:	Dr. Lei Kerr (starting 2007) Assistant Professor Paper and Chemical Engineering Miami University Gaskill Hall 252A Oxford, Ohio 45056-3629 Phone: (513) 529-9229 Fax: (513) 529-2201 Email:
Yulin Deng (starting 2007) Professor Georgia Institute of Technology School of Chemical and Biological Engineering 500 10th Street, NW Atlanta, GA 30332-0620 Phone: 404-894-5759 Fax: 404-894-4778 Email:	Dr. Amar K. Mohanty (starting 2007) Premier's Res. Chair in Biomaterials & Transportation Professor, Dept. of Plant Agriculture & School of Eng. Crop Science Building University of Guelph Guelph, Ontario Canada, N1G 2W1 Phone: 519-824-4120 ext 56664 Fax: 519-763-8933 E-mail:
Dr. Peter van Walsum (starting 2010) Associate Professor Forest Bioproducts Research Initiative 5737 Jenness Hall, Room 311 University of Maine Orono, ME 04469 tel: (207) 581-2226 E-mail:	Eric Bober (starting 2010) Director-Strategy, Forest Products Practice Nexant, Inc. 44 S. Broadway, 4th Floor White Plains, NY 10601 Tel: 914-609-0302 E-mail:
Jim Frederick (starting 2010) Golden, CO Tel: 720-987-0742 Email:	Dr. A.K. Ray (International Director, starting 2010) Professor, Department of Paper Technology Indian Institute of Paper Technology, Saharanpur Campus Saharanpur-247001 India Tel/Fax: (O) (0132)-2714314/2714003 E-mail:

Biographical information about recently added leaders is provided on the "meet the new leaders" page. That replaces the older 2007 leader intro page.

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