Sylvain Charlebois (born 1970) is a regular oped contributor for Montreal's La Presse, Toronto's The Globe and Mail, and also writes a blog for the Canadian Grocer magazine called "The Food Professor".
He is also known as the lead author of Canada's Food Price Report, an annual forecast on food prices and trends, released every December since 2010.Charlebois is a Canadian researcher in food distribution and policy at Dalhousie University.
He is also Dalhousie's former Dean of the Faculty of Management and holds a cross-appointment as professor at Dalhousie University Faculty of Agriculture.
In 2018, he left his decanal position to launch a new Agri-food Analytics Lab, at Dalhousie University.
He is also Scientific Director of the Canadian Agri-Food Foresight Institute, since 2011.Charlebois was a Professor in the College of Business and Economics at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada, from 2010 to 2016.
In 2011, he co-founded the University of Guelph's Food Institute (now the Arrell Food Institute).
From 2004 to 2010, he was a member of the Faculty of Business Administration of the University of Regina in Regina, Canada.
He has served as acting dean, associate dean for the College of Business and Economics at the University of Guelph.
He also served as the Director of the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy (Regina Campus), also affiliated with the University of Saskatchewan.
As Director, in 2009, he became one of the youngest university Deans in Canada.