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Harvey is a Director at Serecon Inc., a firm based in Western Canada providing objective value-added services to the agriculture and food sectors through asset and business valuation, management consulting and advisory services. Harvey is also the President of Field to Market Canada and is heavily involved in the strategic direction and implementation of the organization's vision and mission. Prior to his current roles, he was a Grain and Oilseed Analyst for the USDA, stationed at the Office of Agricultural Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa. Harvey also has experience at various levels of agricultural policy developed from a Junior Policy Officer (JPO) position at Canada’s diplomatic mission to the World Trade Organization in Geneva and more recently as a consultant working on trade policy related research for the Monitoring and Analysing Food and Agricultural Policies (MAFAP) programme at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

Harvey holds a Master of Agricultural Economics from the University of Hohenheim in southern Germany and has extensive hands-on experience in the agri-food sector from having grown up on a cattle ranch in the East Kootenay region of southern British Columbia. Harvey currently lives in Kimberley, BC, with his wife and daughter

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