Jérôme Laporte
Founder and Managing Director
Jérôme has dedicated nearly two decades to managing, protecting, and restorating tropical forests, in order to improve the logging models. Passionate about nature, he devotes his free time to exploring mountains … and forests.
Julien Philippart
Deputy Director
Committed on all fronts, Julien shares his passion and energy with the entire ETICWOOD team. Apart from managing the Brussels office and its missions, he devotes most of his free time to his family and garden
Marie-Joëlle Delmoitié
Administrative and Financial Officer
Marie-Jo graduated from the Solvay Business School. Before joining ETICWOOD as HR and Office Manager, she was involved in vanilla and green pepper export from Madagascar.
Marie d'Aspremont
Agroforestry and Value Chains Officer
After travelling through Central and East Africa, Marie is now immersed between forests and delicacies, at the heart of agroforestry. Cocoa, spices or dried fruits, she's ready to meet the challenge !
Damien Minchilli
Climate Action Project Officer
Damien had several opportunities to set foot on the African continent and its tropical forests through his journey. At ETICWOOD, he feeds on carbon projects with, field missions as dessert!
Giani Razab-Sekh
SFL Technical Assistant
Giani is a Surinamese-based tropical forester with over 8 years of experience in Reduced Impact Logging (RIL), silvicultural research, lecturing, forest management certification, community forestry, forest economics, and project management. Strongly believe that responsible landscape management is a Nature-Based Solution that benefits both people and nature in perpetuity, he is trained to audit forestry operations in tropical regions against the FSC and Legal Source standards. He has established strong connections within Suriname's forestry sector. Additionally, he has demonstrated exceptional project management and communication skills. His personal career objective is to further expand the understanding of tropical forest management and develop expertise in best practices while contributing to the success of businesses, individuals, and the environment
Thibaut Smeets
Climate Action Project Officer
After graduating as a bioengineer, Thibaut set out to discover temperate and boreal biomes. Today, he feeds his passion for tropical environments at ETICWOOD.
