{"id":9263,"date":"2023-02-27T10:21:33","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T17:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/?p=9263"},"modified":"2023-02-27T10:21:33","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T17:21:33","slug":"mfre-speaker-series-harvey-bradford-a-career-in-agri-food-management-consulting-and-advisory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/post-9263","title":{"rendered":"MFRE Speaker Series: Harvey Bradford. &#8221; A career in Agri-Food Management Consulting and Advisory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Friday, March 3<sup>rd<\/sup>\u00a0Harvey Bradford, Director at Serecon will be speaking to the MFRE students about the Ins and outs of pursuing a career in Agri-Food Management Consultant and Advisory Services. Please join us and learn from an experience professional who will share his insights and advice on to succeed in \u00a0this dynamic industry.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mfre.landfood.ubc.ca\/events\/career-agri-food-management-consulting-advisory-services\">A Career in Agri-Food and Management Consulting and Advisory services<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Date<\/strong>: Friday, March 3<sup>rd<\/sup>\u00a0,<sup>,<\/sup>\u00a02023<\/p>\n<p><strong>Time<\/strong>: 3:00-4:30 pm<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location<\/strong>: MCML 160<\/p>\n<p>Harvey\u00a0is 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.\u00a0Harvey\u00a0is also the President of Field to Market Canada and is heavily involved in the strategic direction and implementation of the organization&#8217;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.\u00a0Harvey\u00a0also has experience at various levels of agricultural policy developed from a Junior Policy Officer (JPO) position at Canada\u2019s 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).\u00a0Harvey\u00a0holds 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.\u00a0Harvey\u00a0currently lives in Kimberley, BC, with his wife and daughter<\/p>\n<p>For information about the upcoming MFRE Speakers, Please visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mfre.landfood.ubc.ca\/speaker-series\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Regards,<\/p>\n<p>Olivier<\/p>\n<p><strong>__<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Olivier Ntwali, BSc Ag. Econ, MFRE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Academic Program Manager | Master of Food and Resource Economics| Land and Food Systems| The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus | 348A-2357 Main Mall | Vancouver British Columbia | V6T 1Z4 Canada | Cell 604-771-8961 |\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:olivier.ntwali@ubc.ca\">olivier.ntwali@ubc.ca<\/a>\u00a0|<a href=\"http:\/\/mfre.landfood.ubc.ca\/\">\u00a0http:\/\/mfre.landfood.ubc.ca\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Friday, March 3rd\u00a0Harvey Bradford, Director at Serecon will be speaking to the MFRE students about the Ins and outs of pursuing a career in Agri-Food Management Consultant and Advisory Services. Please join us and learn from an experience professional who will share his insights and advice on to succeed in \u00a0this dynamic industry. 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