Gregory Rudder is managing editor for the Americas for Fastmarkets, which covers North and South America, includes PPI Pulp & Paper Week in the U.S.

P&PW is a weekly publication focused on pricing and supply/demand dynamics in the U.S. and the global pulp, paper, board and recovered paper businesses. Greg and his Fastmarkets team in the Americas also report daily online news.

He has been at P&PW since 1995 and has covered pricing for numerous paper and board markets, including 13 years in North American containerboard and corrugated boxes, 22 years covering U.S. recovered paper from 1996 to 2018, five years covering uncoated freesheet and specialty white papers, two years covering newsprint, several years covering boxboard and at least 10 to 15 years covering the tissue market.

Greg is a graduate of Pepperdine University in Southern California and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has interviewed the top CEOs in the pulp and paper industry over the last 15 years and visited more than 60 mills, packaging converting and recycling plants around the U.S., as well as in China, Germany, Mexico and Canada.