Robert Hrubes has served as Senior Vice President for over a decade. In addition to his executive leadership responsibilities, Dr. Hrubes has principal responsibility for leading the company's natural resource management and chain-of-custody programs.
Dr. Hrubes is a registered professional forester and resource economist with over 35 years of professional experience in both the private and public sectors, and is an internationally recognized expert in natural resources management and environmental certification. Prior to joining SCS, he worked for the USDA Forest Service, then became managing principal of Natural Resource Associates, a Northern California-based forestry and resource economics consulting firm. Here he specialized in wildland management planning, sustainable forestry analysis, resource economics analysis, operations research analysis and forest management.
SCS first engaged Dr. Hrubes' consulting services in 1991 to guide the design and implement its ground-breaking forest certification program. In addition to being principal architect of the SCS Forest Conservation Program, he participated as a founding member in the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), helping to design that certification program. He served for four years on the FSC Board of Directors and was the founding chair of the Board of Directors of the Forest Stewards Guild, a U.S.-based professional forestry society. Maintaining his role as a hands-on certification practitioner, he has served as team leader on evaluations of forest management operations worldwide, and has served as auditor on numerous chain-of-custody certification evaluations. He also served on the Working Group of the Climate Action Reserve Forest Project Protocol.
Dr. Hrubes travels widely, speaking about such topics as forestry, carbon offsets and environmental labelling, and has written numerous peer reviewed articles and papers.
Ph.D., Wildland Resource Sciences; University of California, Berkeley, CA
M.A., Economics; University of California, Berkeley, CA
M.S., Resource Systems Management; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
B.S., Forest Management and Outdoor Recreation Management; Iowa State University, Ames, IA |