Roberts to Be Next WPPF Executive Director

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The Washington Pulp and Paper Foundation (WPPF), Seattle, Wash., USA, this week announced that Michael A. Roberts has been hired as its next executive director. He will officially take on his new role beginning April 1.

 Roberts is a 1969/71 graduate of the University of Washington with BS/MS degrees in chemical engineering. He has spent more than 40 years as a professional in the pulp and paper and allied industries, and he has been active in WPPF for more than 20 years. He and his wife Barb, also a UW graduate, have two grown children and three granddaughters.

The purpose of the WPPF is to attract excellent students to Bioresource Science & Engineering (BSE), and thus provide the industry and its allied industries with a pipeline of highly qualified technical graduates who understand and are dedicated to the industry. Bioresource Science & Engineering, formerly called Paper Science & Engineering (PSE), was established in the School of Forest Resources as a degree program at the University of Washington in 1965. WPPF, a not for profit organization, was incorporated in 1968.