Strengths and Achievements

• Recognized researcher in agri-food economics and industrial organisation.
  
• Excellent expertise in model-making, demand analysis and market structure analysis.
  
• Agricultural Economics BSc, MSc, PhD.

Achievements

• Department Director, Université Laval (1999-2005).
  
• Founding Director of the Centre de recherche en économie agroalimentaire.
  
• Tenured professor, Université Laval.
  
• In charge of the Cellule d’intelligence économique des fonds de développement de la transformation agroalimentaire (FDTA).
  
• Fellow researcher at the George Morris Center, Guelph.
  
• Leader of a research project on local food products in collaboration with the Conférence régionale
  des élus de la Capitale Nationale and several agri-food issue tables.
  
• Member of the Conseil de l’agriculture et de l’agroalimentaire pour le développement de la région de Québec (CAADRQ).
  
• Consultant for many national and international agri-food businesses and government agencies
  
• He has recently participated in an important study of issues in the agri-food sector.
  
• In charge of an economic study for the Réseau aquaculture Québec, a scientific group.