Susan Bell.

About Susan Bell

Susan Bell (OBE) is a British journalist, town and country planner, land use adviser to the Country Landowners' Association, and forester, who was tasked with the early development work for The National Forest (England), the first major forest to be planted in Britain for nearly 1,000 years. She then became the first chief executive of the National Forest Company, which runs the initiative. She is notable for her establishment of working relationships with landowners, mineral extractors, public, private and voluntary organisations to establish a large, multi purpose, working woodland in an area previously economically depressed and environmentally despoiled. After retiring, she was invited to witness the planting of the ten millionth tree in the forest.