Board

The Board is made up of nine members. Two members are appointed by the Conseil des Ministres: the President and CEO and the Québec government representative. The remaining seven members are chosen by the Conseil de Promotion de l’Agroalimentaire Québécois (CPAQ) from candidates put forward by associations representing the following circles:

• producers
• processors
• distributors
• retailers
• certification bodies
• consumers
• producers of alcohol-containing products.

Samuel Bouchard Villeneuve
Retailers representative
Public Affairs Director, Association des détaillants en alimentation du Québec (ADA)

Janick Boudreau
Distributors representative
Food Security Director, Metro inc.

Sébastien Daoust
Producers of alcohol-containing products reprensentative
Winemaker, vineyard Les Bacchantes

Jean-Claude Dufour
Member appointed by the Government of Québec

Marie-Josée Gouin
President and CEO
Conseil des Appellations Réservées et des Termes Valorisants

Christine Jean
Processors representative
Vice-president, Technical and Regulatory Services,
Conseil de la transformation alimentaire du Québec (CTAQ)

Stéphanie Levasseur
Agricultural producers representative
Second Vice-president, l’Union des producteurs agricoles (UPA)

Jacques Nantel
Consumer representative
C.M. Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus

Jean-François Philippe
Certification bodies reprensentative
Commercial Manager, Enregistrement CWB

Expert committees

The Conseil supported by the work of a number of expert committees.

Accreditation committee

• Denis Paul Bouffard
  Author and speaker
• Danielle Brault
  Retired agronomist
  Quebec Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
• François Décary
  Consultant
  International development Desjardins
• Stéphane Gagnon
  Senior Organizational Information Systems Consultant
  Desjardins
• Clémentine Gombart
  Agronomist

Impartiality committee

• Denis Paul Bouffard
  Author and speaker
• Pierre Legault
  Retired lawyer
• Arouna Wabi
  Vice-President, Business Development at Normex

Surveillance committee

• Pascal Daigle
  Consultant
• Annick Demanche
  Director
  Ministère de l’Agriculture, des Pêcheries et de l’Alimentation
• Marie-Josée Gouin
  President and CEO
  Conseil des appellations réservées et de termes valorisants
• Jean-Pierre Lévesque
  Lawyer, Caïn et Lamarre

Organic standards committee

• Danielle Brault
  Retired agronomist
  Ministère de l’Agriculture, des Pêcheries et de l’Alimentation du Québec
• Daniel Dubé
  Owner-affiliate of Rachelle-Béry – Healthy grocery
• Jean Duval
  Consultant- retired agronomist
• François Labelle
  Agronomist – Organic dairy production expert
• Yveline Martin
  Agronomist
  Market garden and fruit sector consultant, organic production
• Nicolas Turgeon
  Expert Advisor – Organic division
  Ministère de l’Agriculture, des Pêcheries et de l’Alimentation du Québec

PGI-Acerum du Québec and TV-Spiritueux d’origine agricole du Québec committee

• David Bérubé
  Chemist – consultant
• Luc Bordeleau
  Chemist – consultant
• Stéphane Denis
  Strategic consultant
• Annick Mercier
  Microbiologist
  Business Area Manager – Caribbean & North America
  Distilled Spirits
• Jean-Sébastien Michel
  Owner and founder of Alambika and Jesemi Distribution

PGI-Vin du Québec and PGI-Vin de glace du Québec committee

• Benoit Beaudet
  Consultant – Trainer
  Marketing – Cost of sales & Alcohols
• Jérémie d’Hauteville
  Œnologist
• Hélène Dion
  Sommelier consultant
• Gaëlle Dubé
  Agronomist
• Isabelle Lafont
  Cellar master and sales
  Vignoble Les Artisans du Terroir

PGI-Cidre de glace du Québec committee

• Monique Audette
  Consultant
• Kathleen McNeil
  Consultant
• Caroline Provost
  Consultant
• Colombe St-Pierre
  Consultant

PGI-Maïs sucré de Neuville committee

• Arturo Duarte Sierra
  Assistant Professor, Department of Food Science, Faculty of Agriculture and Food Sciences (FSAA)
  Laval University
• Audrey Simard
  Co-founder and partner of Papilles développement
  Quebec terroir products marketing consultant
• Charles-Antoine Légaré
  Food processing sector consultant
  Ministère de l’Agriculture, des Pêcheries et de l’Alimentation du Québec
• Hélène Beauchesne
  Food transformation consultant
• Myriam Ertz
  Professor, Department of Economics and Administrative Sciences
  Canada Research Chair in Technology, Sustainability and Society
  Université du Québec à Chicoutimi

Cheese sector committee

• Dominique Arsenault
  Food processing consultant
  Ministère de l’Agriculture, des Pêcheries et de l’Alimentation du Québec
• Idriss Ettabaâ
  Business Development Director
  Producteurs de lait du Québec
• Martin Gilbert
  Investment Development Manager
  Promotion Saguenay
• Patrick Mundler
  Professor, Department of Agroeconomics and Consumer Sciences, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences
  Laval University
• Réjean St-Pierre
  Agronomist
  Retired from the Commission de protection du territoire agricole du Québec
  Partner in a dairy farm
• Carole Thibault
  Consultant in management, industrial relations and governance for the agri-food processing sector

PGI-Agneau de Charlevoix committee

• Alexandre Anctil
  Consultant
• Paul Caccia
  Consultant
• Francois Castonguay
  Consultant
• Hélène Méthot
  Consultant
• Colombe St-Pierre
  Consultant

AS-Sirop d’érable à la chaudière committee

• Sylvain Gaston
  Consultant
• Luc Lagacé
  Consultant
• David Lapointe
  Consultant
• Hélène Laurendeau
  Consultant
• Jean-Marc Lavoie
  Consultant
• Vallier Robert
  Consultant