Staff

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Bob Seguin
Executive Director
Larry Martin
Senior Research Fellow - Competitiveness, trade policy, strategic planning, risk management, education and training 

Fiona Stirling

Director, Finance and Operations

Kevin Grier

Senior Market Analyst - Livestock/meat industry, Canadian grocery industry

Al Mussell

Senior Research Associate - Farm and agribusiness management, risk management, agricultural marketing, dairy industry

Martin Gooch

Director, Value Chain Management Centre - Value chain principles and techniques relating to the Canadian agri-food industry


Kate Stiefelmeyer

Research Associate - Nutrient management, environmental policy, competitiveness of Canadian agri-food
Claudia Schmidt
Research Associate - Food safety, regulatory policies
Anatoliy Oginskyy
Research Analyst - Senior research support - data, literature, and economic modeling
Abdel Felfel
Research Assistant - Value Chains
Tesfalidet Asfaha
Research Assistant - Senior research support - data and literature

Nicole Marenick
Research and Administrative Assistant - Value Chain Management Centre
Pat Dares
Office Administrator

Lynn Punnett

Manager - Education & Community Relations

Joanne Falk
Director of Communications
 

Research Fellows
Research Fellows are recognized as outstanding researchers in their fields.  Those fields will be the ones the Centre has interest in from a research perspective.  The role of Fellows will be:

  • to assist the Centre in identifying and evaluating positions on major issues.
  • helping to establish research priorities in their areas of expertise.
  • providing leadership, where applicable, on training programs that result from the research programs.
  • preferred participants on research teams.

In most cases, the Research Fellow will work with a staff member of the Centre on research programs and/or research priorities.  This will assist the development of the Centre’s research priorities while, at the same time, assisting to develop our staff competencies. 

The following Research Fellows have been named by the Board of Directors:

Tim Ball, Ted Bilyea, Doug Hedley, Julia Christensen Hughes, Gary Fread, Remy Lambert, George Leroux, and Randy Westgren 


Associates
Associates are people with whom we have a preferred relationship in working on projects.  They add to the “stable” of human resources that the Centre can offer in its contract/consulting role. 

The criteria for selecting Associates include:

  • people or companies who have solid strengths and reputations in areas of our interest.
  • people who have solid reputations in particular geographic regions.
  • people who are inclined to share work - i.e. those who will work with us and invite us to work with them.
  • people who can assist us in attracting funding for our research efforts.
  • people who are of high integrity.

The following Associates have been appointed by the Executive Director:
 
Jerry Bouma, Graeme Hedley, Frank Ingratta, Dan Laplain, Terry Manning, Taketo Murata, Bob Ross, Craig Rothwell, and Harry Stoddart 






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