Sylvain Charlebois

Sylvain Charlebois
Born 1970 (age 45–46)
Farnham, Quebec, Canada
Alma mater Université de Sherbrooke, Université de Montréal, Royal Military College
Occupation Canadian Scientist, Food Distribution and Policy
Employer University of Guelph, Canada
Organization Conference Board of Canada, CD Howe Institute, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, University of Guelph's Food Institute, United States Department of Agriculture, European Food Safety Authority, China Food and Drug Administration, Institute of Food Technologists, Global Food Traceability Center

Dr. Sylvain Charlebois (born 1970) writes columns regularly for Montreal's La Presse, Toronto's The Globe and Mail, and also writes a blog for the Canadian Grocer magazine called "The Food Professor".[1]

Charlebois is a Canadian researcher and Professor in the College of Business and Economics at the University of Guelph[2] in Ontario, Canada. From 2004 to 2010, he was a member of the Faculty of Business Administration of the University of Regina in Regina, Canada. He has served as Acting Dean, Associate Dean for the College of Business and Economics at the University of Guelph. He also served as the Director of the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy (Regina Campus), also affiliated with the University of Saskatchewan.[3] As Director, he became one of the youngest university Deans in Canada.

It was announced in March 2016 that Charlebois will join Dalhousie University in July 2016 as Dean of the Faculty of Management. He will also hold a cross-appointment as Professor in the Faculty of Agriculture and the Dalhousie University Faculty of Agriculture, commencing July 1, 2016.[4]

Research

Charlebois has authored nearly 500 publications in peer-reviewed journals, professional publications, conference proceedings in Food Science and Management. He is known for being the lead author of many reports which compare global food safety and traceability systems.[5] In 2011, Charlebois chaired the first International Workshop on food safety performance metrics and risk intelligence in Helsinki, Finland, during which 21 countries were represented.[6] He is the project lead of the University of Guelph Food Retail Price Report (2011 to 2016)[7] and the World Ranking Food Safety Performance Report (2008, 2010, 2014).[8] The annual Food Retail Price project was recognized as one of the University of Guelph's most significant research accomplishments over the past 50 years.[9]

He is the author of four books on global food systems, one in French, an essay on food security and safety.

His current research interest lies in the broad area of food distribution and safety, and has published many articles in several top academic journals food science and management. Dr. Charlebois is an associate researcher with many research centres and think tanks and has worked with the CD Howe Institute[10] and the Conference Board of Canada.[11] His research has been featured in a number of publications, including The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, The Chicago Tribune, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Foreign Policy, The Globe and Mail, National Post, Toronto Star, Maclean's and La Presse, as well as on the Business News Network, CBC Radio and CBC Television, Global, CTV, TVOntario and TVA. He has conducted media interviews in several countries including the United States, many European countries, Russia, Philippines, China, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan and India.

Teaching philosophy

Charlebois has conducted live case studies for years now.[12] In his approach, Charlebois attempts to incorporate realism and the concept of Co-opetition in the classroom.[13] He believes that the simultaneity of competition and cooperation in a live case study setting makes for a profoundly powerful learning experience for students.

He is a co-author of Real People, Real Decisions published by Pearson Education Canada.

Appointments

Dr. Charlebois is a member of both the National Scientific Committee and the National Expert Board of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency since 2011. Since 2013, he also a member of the Global Food Traceability Center's Advisory Council based in Washington, D.C.. He sits on a few company boards, and supports many organizations as a special advisor, including some publicly traded companies . 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, Italy, France, Belgium, China, Great Britain, Finland and the Netherlands. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of São Paulo in Brazil, at the University of Helsinki in Finland, at NorthWestern A&F University in China, and at the University of Innsbruck in Austria.

Awards

Charlebois is a two-time winner of the prestigious International Emerald Lit Award in research (2008, 2012).[14] He has done a TEDx talk on global trades and emerging agricultural economies.[15] He is also a three-time "Teacher of the Year" award winner while in Saskatchewan, in 2006, 2007 and 2009. In 2006, MacLean's Magazine recognized him as one of the best university professors in the country.[16] In 2015, he also won the Bill Braithwaite Distinguished Professorial Award as a graduate Faculty at the University of Guelph.

Charlebois holds degrees from the Royal Military College of Canada, the Université de Montréal and the Université de Sherbrooke.

References

  1. ↑ http://www.canadiangrocer.com/blogs/the-food-professor. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. ↑ "University of Guelph". uoguelph.ca.
  3. ↑ "Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy". schoolofpublicpolicy.sk.ca. 23 January 2015.
  4. ↑ http://www.dal.ca/faculty/management/news-events/news/2016/03/03/dalhousie_appoints_new_dean_of_management.html. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. ↑ "Canada's Food Tracking Needs Improvement: Study". uoguelph.ca. 26 June 2014.
  6. ↑ "Comparison of Global Food Traceability Regulations and Requirements". Wiley Online Library.
  7. ↑ "Rising Food Prices: U of G Economists Predict Some Relief in 2012". uoguelph.ca. 12 December 2011.
  8. ↑ Jean-Charles Le Vallée (20 November 2014). "2014 World Ranking: Food Safety Performance". conferenceboard.ca.
  9. ↑ "Faculty Authored Papers - Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy". schoolofpublicpolicy.sk.ca. 16 January 2015.
  10. ↑ "A Bushel Half Full: Reforming the Canadian Wheat Board". cdhowe.org.
  11. ↑ Jean-Charles Le Vallée (21 November 2014). "Benchmarking World Food Safety Performance". conferenceboard.ca.
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  14. ↑ "Emerald: Outstanding Paper Awards". emeraldinsight.com.
  15. ↑ "The Farm Worth Saving: Dr. Sylvain Charlebois at TEDxGuelphU 2012". YouTube.
  16. ↑
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