George H. Weyerhaeuser, Jr.

George H. Weyerhaeuser Jr., serves as senior vice president, technology, responsible for Corporate Research and Development.

Weyerhaeuser is chairman of the board of Weyerhaeuser Canada. He currently serves as chairman of the Pulp and Paper Research Institute of Canada and chair of the Canadian National Advisory Board on Forestry Research. Weyerhaeuser is chairman of the Forest Alliance of British Columbia, chair of the CPPA Climate Change Task Force, co-chair of the Canadian Sustainable Forestry Coalition and is a director of the Canadian Pulp and Paper Association. He also is a director of the Dietzen Corporation and Clearwater Management Company.

Weyerhaeuser joined the company in Dierks, Arkansas in 1978 where he held various positions including technical forester and contract logger administrator before becoming sawmill supervisor in 1980. He moved to the Valliant Oklahoma operations in 1981 where he assumed several company roles before being named vice president and mill manager for Containerboard in 1987. In 1990, Weyerhaeuser moved to Corporate Headquarters in Federal Way to become vice president, manufacturing for Weyerhaeuser pulp & paper businesses. He served as president and chief executive officer of Weyerhaeuser Canada from June 1993 to May 1998.

Weyerhaeuser received his bachelor’s degree in Philosophy/Mathematics from Yale University in 1976 and a masters of science from the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1986.

Weyerhaeuser’s great-great grandfather was Frederick Weyerhaeuser, one of the Weyerhaeuser Company founders in 1900.