Dr. Bernhard Wolfslehner is the Head of Governance Programme of the European Forest Institute (EFI), and has more than 25 years of research experience in sustainability research, multi-criteria decision support and policy studies on natural resource management and bioeconomy. He is the coordinator of the Pan-European State of European Forests Report 2025. Among other projects, he is coordinator of the current EU project TRANSFORMIT that investigates approaches for integrative forest management, demonstrating pathways to integrate forest management and biodiversity.