About Sylvain Charlebois
Sylvain Charlebois is a Canadian professor and researcher of food distribution and policy at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is a former dean of the university's Faculty of Management. Charlebois, who goes by the moniker "The Food Professor," is the director of the Agri-food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie. Since December 2010, he has been the lead author of Canada's Food Price Report. == Early life and education == Charlebois was raised on a rural farm in Quebec. He has a degree in commerce from the Royal Military College of Canada. He obtained a Master of Business Administration from the Université du Québec à Montréal and a Doctor of Business Administration at the University of Sherbrooke, writing his thesis on mad cow disease's impact on the Canadian beef industry and food distribution. == Career == After getting his doctoral degree, Charlebois moved to Saskatchewan for a teaching position at the University of Regina in 2004. He became associate dean of the Faculty of Business Administration in 2008 and joined the Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, a joint operation between the University of Regina and the University of Saskatchewan, as an associate director the following year. In the 2000s, his research focused on food systems and he began making media appearances as a food expert.
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