{"id":8923,"date":"2022-11-23T10:16:44","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T17:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/?p=8923"},"modified":"2022-11-23T10:16:44","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T17:16:44","slug":"mfre-speaker-jean-philippe-gervais-farm-credit-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/post-8923","title":{"rendered":"MFRE Speaker: Jean Philippe Gervais, Farm Credit Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jean Philippe Gervais, Vice president and Economist of Farm Credit Canada will speak to the MFRE Students this Friday, Nov 25 about Economics and Valuation. Everyone is invited!<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mfre.landfood.ubc.ca\/events\/economics-and-valuations\">Economics and Valuations<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Date<\/strong>: Friday, November 25, 2022<\/p>\n<p><strong>Time<\/strong>: 3:00-4:30 PM<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location<\/strong>: MCML 160<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>J.P. Gervais is Vice-President and Chief Agricultural Economist at FCC. He has over 20 years of experience analyzing domestic and international agricultural policies and markets, and his insights help guide strategy and monitor risk throughout the corporation. He\u2019s frequently a featured speaker at national and international conferences, addressing global trends and the linkages to agri-food markets. In addition to acting as an FCC spokesperson on economic matters, J.P. provides commentary on the agriculture industry through videos and the FCC Ag Economist blog.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to joining FCC in 2010, J.P. was a professor of agricultural economics at North Carolina State University and Laval University. He also held the Canada Research Chair in Agri-Industries and International Trade at Laval. J.P. is Past-President of the Canadian Agricultural Economics Society. He obtained his Ph.D. in economics from Iowa State University in 1999<\/p>\n<p><strong>Topics covered during the seminar<\/strong>: the role of FCC and its offerings,\u00a0the role of an economist at a financial institution, and the type of economic research the ag-econ FCC research group does<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Many thanks!<\/p>\n<p>Olivier<\/p>\n<p><strong>Olivier Ntwali, MFRE<\/strong><br \/>\nAcademic Program Manager<br \/>\nMaster of Food and Resource Economics| Land and Food System<br \/>\nThe University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus | Musqueam Traditional Territory<br \/>\nMacmillan Building \u2013 348A- 2357 Main Mall\u00a0|\u00a0Vancouver BC\u00a0|\u00a0V6T 1Z4 Canada<br \/>\nPhone: 6047718961| <a href=\"mailto:olivier.ntwali@ubc.ca%7C\">olivier.ntwali@ubc.ca|<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/mfre.landfood.ubc.ca\/\">http:\/\/mfre.landfood.ubc.ca\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jean Philippe Gervais, Vice president and Economist of Farm Credit Canada will speak to the MFRE Students this Friday, Nov 25 about Economics and Valuation. Everyone is invited! Economics and Valuations Date: Friday, November 25, 2022 Time: 3:00-4:30 PM Location: MCML 160 &nbsp; J.P. Gervais is Vice-President and Chief Agricultural Economist at FCC. He has&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18841,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3836],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8924,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8923\/revisions\/8924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}