Sylvain Charlebois is a Full Professor of Food Distribution and Policy in the Faculty of Management at Dalhousie University in Halifax (Canada). He is also the Scientific Director of the Laboratory of Analytical Sciences in Agrifood at the same university. He is also the former Dean of the Faculty of Management at Dalhousie University. Prior to joining Dalhousie, he co-founded the Arrell Food Institute at the University of Guelph.
His area of research and expertise encompasses distribution, food safety and food safety. He is one of the most cited experts on supply chain, agri-food value chain and traceability. Since 2021, he has co-hosted The Food Professor podcast discussing hot topics in the food, restaurant, grocery and restaurant industries. For nearly 20 years, he has been a regular contributor to the editorial pages of La Presse and the Globe and Mail as an expert in the food industry. His research and comments are published by the most important newspapers and magazines in Quebec, Canada and the world, including the Journal de Montréal, the National Post, the Toronto Star, the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. His comments are also regularly heard on national and international television and radio: Radio-Canada (television and radio, national and regional), RDI, TVA, LCN, CTV, CBC, Global, BBC, NBC, ABC, Fox News , etc.
Since 2012 it has published the now highly anticipated Food Price Report annually, which provides an overview of food price trends for the coming year. He has published 7 books dealing with global agri-food systems, including a writing in French on poutine, an internationally known Canadian dish, entitled Poutine Nation. He is also the author of more than 750 articles published in international scientific and professional journals in the field of food sciences and management. He is the editor of the academic journal Trends in Food Science Technology.
He has testified on several occasions as an expert witness before parliamentary committees on issues related to agri-food policy. He has been asked to act as an advisor on food and agricultural policies in many Canadian provinces and other countries. He is also a speaker for numerous international conferences and an expert in various research bodies in Canada and abroad.
Sylvain Charlebois is a member of several boards of directors of private companies. In addition, since 2011, he has been a member of the Scientific and Expert Advisory Committees of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and he is also a member of the board of the Global Food Traceability Center, based in Washington.
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