Stefanie Linser is an expert on Criteria and Indicators for Sustainable Forest Management. She is a senior scientist working at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU) in the Institute of Forest, Environment and Natural Resource Policy and EFI Forest Policy Research Network. Stefanie has a PhD (2001) and a MSc (1996) in forestry sciences. She has been working for 25 years on forest, biodiversity, and bioeconomy indicators and has compiled data and related assessments, provided input and indicator expertise to national and international organizations, and was one of the coordinating lead-authors of the State of Europe’s Forests 2020 report. Her present focus of work is on various headline indicator sets. In 2014, she launched and still coordinates the IUFRO WP 9.01.05 on Research and Development of Indicators for SFM. Stefanie is part of the UNECE/FAO Team of Specialists on Monitoring Sustainable Forest Management.