International Paper expands board with two new appointments

Vidhya Edwards Munnangi

Mon, July 20, 2026 astatine 4:52 AM CDT 2 min read

International Paper has appointed Katherine Collins and Lori J Ryerkerk to its board, with the additions taking effect connected 1 October 2026.

Collins has worked for much than 30 years successful plus management, sustainable investment, probe and nonprofit governance.

She was astir precocious Putnam Investments' archetypal caput of sustainable investing. The relation saw her found the company's sustainable concern business, which managed much than $10bn successful assets.

She antecedently held elder concern posts astatine Fidelity and is besides laminitis and CEO of Honeybee Capital.

Ryerkerk has much than 40 years of acquisition successful the energy, chemicals and specialty materials industries.

She astir precocious served arsenic chairman, president and CEO of Celanese Corporation, wherever she oversaw a play of alteration that included the $11bn acquisition of DuPont's Mobility & Materials business, arsenic good arsenic sustainability-related programmes.

Her erstwhile positions see elder planetary manufacturing and operations roles astatine Shell, Hess and ExxonMobil. She besides sits connected the boards of Norfolk Southern, Cencora and Eaton.

International Paper CEO and committee president Andy Silvernail said: "Lori and Katherine each bring exceptional enactment acquisition and a proven quality to assistance usher organisations done complexity and change.

"The strategical penetration and acquisition they each connection volition fortify our Board and enactment the company's continued transformation."

International Paper's 2 existent directors mean to measurement down astatine the extremity of 2026: Dr Kathryn Sullivan, who joined the committee successful 2017; and Ahmet Dorduncu, who has been a manager since 2011.

The enactment alteration comes amid a restructuring astatine International Paper, which offers sustainable packaging solutions.

This has seen the institution downsize operations, astir precocious done the closure of Carrollton South packaging works successful Texas.