Keith worked in Kaingaroa, Gisborne and Wellington following graduation with a Forestry hons degree from Canterbury.
After dissolution of the NZ Forest Service in 1987, he secured a 5½ year assignment with the World Bank in Papua New Guinea before taking a Master’s qualification in business from the University of Southern Queensland.
Over the past twenty years, he has led long term forestry reform contracts in the Philippines, Ghana, Solomon Islands, Malawi and Kenya.