Speakers

Confirmed Speakers

• Dudley Adolph, Chief Director, Farmer Support and Development, Provincial Department of Agriculture, West Cape, South Africa
• Audia Barnett, Representative to Canada, Inter-American Institute for Co-operation on Agriculture (IICA)
• Aline Bennett, Sustainability Coordinator, Town of Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Qc
• Sarah Dalle, Program Manager Africa, USC Canada
• Renaud De Plaen, Senior Program Specialist, IDRC
• Ronald Doering, Counsel, Gowling Lafleur and Henderson, Ottawa
• Marco Ferroni, Executive Director, Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture, Switzerland
• Jim Fyles, Tomlinson Chair in Forest Ecology, Professor and Chair, Department of Natural Resource Sciences, McGill University
• Zhanyi Gao, Director, National Centre for Efficient Irrigation Technology Research, and Hon. Vice President of International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage, China
• Daniel Gustafson, Director, FAO Liaison Office for North America
• David Hallam, Director, Trade and Markets Division, United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Rome, Italy
• Douglas Hedley, Executive Director, Canadian Faculties of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine
• Spencer Henson, Professor, Department of Food, Agricultural & Resource Economics, University of Guelph
• Murray B. Isman, Dean and Professor (Entomology/Toxicology), Faculty of Land and Food Systems, University of British Columbia
• Bruno Larue, Canada Research Chair in International Agri-food Trade, Université Lava
• Chad Lubelsky, Interim Executive Director, Santropol Roulant
• Chandra A. Madramootoo, Dean, Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, McGill University
• Grace Marquis, Canada Research Chair in Social and Environmental Aspects of Nutrition, Centre for Indigenous Peoples' Nutrition and Environment (CINE), McGill University
• William A. Masters, Professor and Chair, Department of Food and Nutritional Policy, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University
• David McInnes, President and CEO, Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute (CAPI)
• Roger Ménard, Director, Planning and Policies, Québec Department of International Relations
• Humberto Monardes, Professor, Department of Animal Science, McGill University
• Ottoniel Monterroso Rivas, Institute of Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment,Universidad Rafael Landivar, Guatemala
• David Morley, President and CEO, UNICEF Canada
• Festus Murithi, Assistant Director, Socio-economics and Applied Statistics Division, Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI)
• The Honourable Beverley J. Oda, Minister of International Cooperation
• Brent Paterson, Executive Director, Irrigation and Farm Water Division, Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development, Lethbridge, Alberta
• Carlo Primiani, Department of Bioresource Engineering, McGill University
• Mark W. Rosegrant, Director, Environment and Production Technology Division, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
• Amit H. Roy, President and CEO, International Fertilizer Development Centre (IFDC)
• Michel R. Saint-Pierre, Former Deputy Minister, MAPAQ
• Marilyn Scott, Director, McGill School of Environment, McGill University
• Aidan Senzanje, University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa
• Amanda Sheedy, Program Coordinator, Food Secure Canada
• Donald Smith, James McGill Professor, Plant Science Department, McGill University
• Eugene Terry, Senior Technical Advisor, TransFarm Africa (TFA)
• Paul Thomassin, Professor, Department of Natural Resource Sciences (Agricultural Economics), McGill University
• Robert L. Thompson, Visiting Scholar, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies; Senior Fellow, Global Agricultural Developmnet & Food Security, Chicago Council on Global Affairs, and Professor Emeritus of Agricultural Policy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Kevin Tiessen, Senior Program Officer, IDRC
• Paul Wilson, Associate Professor and Director, Rural Business Research Unit, University of Nottingham
• Kathryn Young, Associate Principal, McKinsey & Company, Chicago
• Sergiy Zorya, Senior Economist in Agriculture and Rural Development Department (ARD), World Bank