Paul Rougieux is a forest economist and wood products engineer who graduated from the University of Lorraine, France. He started working as a quality engineer in the wood industry in south Germany. After a few years, he went back to France, to start a PhD thesis on Econometrics applied to Forest Products Markets. He worked for the European Forest Institute and for the Laboratory of Forest Economics in Nancy. He then worked at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission in Ispra, Italy where he researched changes in biomass flows in Europe. For this purpose, he built bridges between economic models and biophysical models of forest dynamics. He is now based in Backnang, Germany, working as an independent consultant. He created a company called Eichen Lernen which provides context engineering for the bioeconomy.