Marco Marchetti has a research record of 28 years in the domain of inventory and GIS for forest management and conservation at National level and in the Europe context, with 14 years of cooperation with the European Forest Institute and with experiences in several countries in Africa and Latin America. Research activities span the domain of development and application of new technologies. Current research focus is on multiresources inventory and forest mapping, forest management and land planning, fire monitoring and biodiversity assessment with special references to old growth forests, deadwood, naturalness and protected areas. He is leader of several research and application projects at national and international level. As Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of European Forest Institute (EFI) elected in 2012, he is at the head of this important international organization established in 1993 and in 2013 ratified by European states and 36 countries participants with 130 members forestry research organizations as members, who work in forestry research in both the scientific insights that support decision-making processes, particularly in the EC and worldwide. EFI consists of three research programs: Sustainability and Climate Change, Forest for Society, Foresight and Policy Support, and 2 units of European forest policy and global on FLEGT and REDD +, for whose activities he’s particularly involved. EFI is organized into 5 Regional Offices, Project Centre and 2 corresponding to the nodes of the network of the Institute , identified in the EFI States and in other major partners. The five offices are EFIMED , for the Mediterranean region based in Barcelona, EFICENT - OEF, to central Europe with offices in Freiburg and Nancy EFIATLANTIC, for the European countries bordering the Atlantic, based in Bordeaux, EFICEEC - EFISEE, focused on the network of institutes operating in the Baltic countries and in South East Europe with offices in Vienna and Varaždin, and finally EFINORD for the northern European countries, the Baltic Sea and the North Atlantic Regions, based in Copenhagen. As Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board has the important task of providing advice to the organs and to the partners of the Institute on research, strategies and networking in the field of forestry, as well as to monitor the activities of research, stimulate new initiatives and periodically assess the structures