Jean-Charles Le Vallée

Dr. Jean-Charles Le Vallée is the IICA Representative in Canada and Executive Secretary of the Cooperative Program in Research and Technology for the Northern Region (PROCINORTE).

Before joining IICA, Dr. Le Vallée was an agricultural economist at the World Bank and the first Coordinator of the Office for Food Security in Canada for the federal government. He has extensive international experience in diplomacy, leadership, teaching, and research in over 25 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, the Caribbean, and Latin America, working with Global Affairs Canada, USAID, the World Food Prize, IFPRI, FAO, Laval University, Cornell University, and Michigan State University.

Dr. Le Vallée has written extensively on food issues, including a book on the resilience of food systems in Belize and a book chapter in India on political will for food security. He later helped train agri-food SMEs in Colombia, Senegal, and Vietnam to grow their businesses and increase their food trade. In Canada, he contributed to the development of a national food strategy and published several global bulletins (with over 100 million media impressions) in 17 OECD countries on food industry performance; agri-food trade; health; food security; nutrition, diseases, and diets; food waste; and environmental performance.