INTERNATIONAL PAPER CO /NEW/

Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly

caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and

appoints Lance T. Loeffler, Joseph R. Saab and Amanda M. Jenkins as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact

and agent, acting alone, with full power of substitution and resubstitution for him or her and in his or her name, place

and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any or all amendments to this annual report on Form 10-K, and to file

the same, with all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the U.S. Securities and

Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorney-in-fact full power and authority to do and perform each and

every act and thing requisite or necessary to be done, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact

and agent, or his or her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, this report has been signed

below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated: