Julian Christian Fox

Australian forester with 25 years’ experience in forest monitoring. 7 years’ experience managing international projects in Papua New Guinea and Zambia. Prior to professional career, Julian completed a PhD in forest monitoring from the University of Melbourne in 2000. Since 2017, Julian has held the post of Team Leader, Forest Monitoring in FAO’s Forestry Division leading a team of 60 technical specialists supporting programs and projects spanning support to National Forest Monitoring Systems; Measurement, Reporting and Verification; Ecosystem Restoration Monitoring; National Forest Inventory; and Forest Monitoring for transparent commodity supply chains through capacity development and technology transfer based on open source data platforms under the Open Foris initiative.