Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA)
Representative in Canada
Dr. Jean-Charles Le Vallée is the IICA Country Representative for Canada, Secretary for PROCINORTE, and Focal Point for UNCCD. Before joining IICA, Jean-Charles was a former World Bank agricultural economist, and the first ever Coordinator for Canada's Food Security Bureau at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. He has extensive international diplomatic, leadership, teaching, research and field experience in over two dozen countries across Sub-Saharan Africa, South-East Asia, the Caribbean and Latin America, with Global Affairs Canada, USAID, the World Food Prize, IFPRI, FAO, Université Laval, Cornell and Michigan State University. Jean-Charles has written extensively on food issues, including a book on food system resilience in Belize, and a book chapter in India on political will for food security. Later on, he helped train agri-food SMEs in Colombia, Senegal and Vietnam to grow their business and increase their food trade. In Canada, he helped produce a pan-Canadian Food Strategy, and published various global food report cards (over 100+ million media impressions) across 17 OECD countries on food industry performance; agri-food trade; food safety; food security; nutrition, diseases & diets; food waste & environmental performance.