Michelle McAndrew

Michelle has been with HQP since its inception and leads a dedicated team helping to ensure we keep good stewardship at the heart of what we do.

Her current role at HQP encompasses responsibility for maintaining sustainable forest management certification, fostering strong stakeholder relationships, delivering meaningful environmental programs and projects, managing recreation and permits across the plantation forest landscape, and ultimately maintaining HQP’s social licence.

Michelle completed a dual science and forestry degree at Australian National University in 2001. She has worked in the Queensland plantation forestry sector ever since, with a long involvement with operational policy and standards, integrated management systems and sustainable forest management certification.

Like many in the industry, Michelle sees sustainable forest management as having a key role in our transition to a circular economy and is excited to play a part in that journey.

In her spare time, Michelle enjoys sailing for relaxation or exhilaration – it depends on how hard the wind is blowing!