Full Name
Sylvain Charlebois
Job Title
Professor, Food Distribution Policy
Company
Dalhousie University, Canada
Speaker Bio
Dr. Sylvain Charlebois is a visiting scholar at McGill University in Montreal as well as the Senior Director of the Agri-food Analytics Lab, located at Dalhousie University in Halifax.

Known as “The Food Professor”, he is one of the world's most cited scholars in food supply chain management, food value chains and traceability with over 775 published peer-reviewed journal articles. He is also an editor for the prestigious Trends in Food Science Technology journal. Since 2012, he has published the highly anticipated Canadian Food Price Report, providing an overview of food price trends for the coming year. He co-hosts The Food Professor podcast, now ranked as top Canadian management podcast, discussing issues in the food industries. Furthermore, his research has been featured in several newspapers and media groups, nationally as well as internationally. He has testified on several occasions before parliamentary committees on food policy-related issues as an expert witness. He has been asked to act as an advisor on food and agricultural policies in many Canadian provinces, in the United States, Brazil, Austria, Italy, France, Belgium, China, Great Britain, Finland and the Netherlands.
Sylvain Charlebois