Speakers

Peter Andrée

Peter Andrée is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at Carleton University. His research focuses on the politics of agriculture, food and the environment. He practices, and teaches, community-based participatory research methods and mixed-methods research. Prof. Andrée is co-editor of Civil Society and Social Movements in Food System Governance (Routledge, 2019) as well as Globalization and Food Sovereignty: Global and Local Change in the New Politics of Food (University of Toronto Press, 2014). He is also author of Genetically Modified Diplomacy (University of British Columbia Press, 2007). With Prof. Ryan Katz-Rosene from the University of Ottawa, Prof. Andrée is co-host of the ecopolitics podcast series. The series features conversations with leading environmental politics thinkers, entrepreneurs and activists from around the world, emphasizing issues of equity and social justice related to sustainability transitions.

Amanda Aziz

Amanda is a part-time Staff Lawyer with the Migrant Workers Centre and also works as an immigration and refugee lawyer. She is a long-time advocate for migrant justice, is the proud daughter of immigrants and has supported many families in navigating their immigration status in Canada. She has appeared regularly before all levels of the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada as well as the Federal Court of Canada and has testified before federal standing committees of the House of Commons and Senate.

Amanda has worked with organizations supporting women and workers’ rights, including the West Coast Legal Education and Action Fund, the BC Government and Service Employees Union and the Canadian Labour Congress, and is a member of the Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers National Executive and the Canadian Bar Association Provincial Executive. She is also a regular volunteer with Rise Women’s Legal Clinic and is actively involved with Vancouver’s sanctuary city movement, advocating for access to services for all regardless of immigration status. Prior to her life as a lawyer, Amanda represented students at the national level, advocating for accessible post-secondary education. She received her law degree from the University of Victoria in 2014.

Maricruz Barba

Maricruz Barba is a graduate student in the Master’s Program of Community engagement at the University of Alberta. Her work focuses on environmental education for conservation, food security, and participative approaches in research; she has worked with national and international organizations in the non-profit sector and the Government of Mexico. She has also conducted research in Mexico and other countries in Latin America as well as in India.

Ally Bharmal

Ally Bharmal is a corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions and corporate/commercial lawyer based in the Vancouver office of Fasken. He provides advice for a variety of companies, with an emphasis on the food, beverage and agri-tech sector. Ally leads the firm’s food, beverage and agribusiness group in BC and is the co-lead nationally. He has advised on many of Canada’s top venture capital, private equity and M&A transactions, including large exit transactions for Daiya Foods and SmartSweets. Ally serves as external general counsel for many of his food and beverage clients, and also often serves as corporate secretary and board advisor. In 2018 he was named a “Rising Star” by Lexpert as one of Canada’s leading lawyers under 40.

Adam Bruder-Wexler

Adam Bruder-Wexler is a 4th-year student at McGill University Faculty of Law. Passionate about the overlap between management and law, Adam has shaped his education to focus on ways to better understand this dynamic. As such he has a keen interest in legal reform courses in addition to classes related to the Food or Entertainment field. Adam currently teaches an Entertainment Law course as part of the Law Faculty's student-initiated seminar program.

Richard Butler

Richard Butler B.Sc. (Hons.), MSc., LL.B., is a Partner at Willms & Shier Environmental Lawyers LLP.  Richard practices advocacy before all levels of court and tribunals, including civil litigation, administrative appeals and defence of prosecutions.  Richard provides advice and support to clients on all aspects of environmental law including regulatory compliance and approvals, food packaging and waste management, contaminated land investigations, and remediation and spills.  Richard frequently works with clients in the food processing, land development, municipal, and green energy.  He is leading the firm’s cannabis practice, including regulation at the federal, provincial and municipal levels. His experience also includes Environmental Risk Assessments for food producers, farming properties and greenhouses.  Richard is called to the Bar in Ontario. Richard may be reached at rbutler@willmsshier.com / (416) 862-4837

Marsha Cadogan

Dr. Marsha Simone Cadogan is an international intellectual property rights lawyer with expertise in trademarks, geographical indications (food and non-food based), design rights and copyright law and policy. Other aspects of her work include emerging technologies (artificial intelligence, blockchains and 3D printing automation) interface with intellectual property law, preferential free trade agreements and the direction of IP laws and, international law theories and sustainable development. She has a PhD in intellectual property rights and is called to the Bar of Ontario. She is also the Canadian representative on AIPPI's (International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property Rights) Standing Committee on Geographical Indications.

Brett Campeau

Brett Campeau is a Lawyer at the First Peoples Law office in Ottawa, Ontario. Mr. Campeau currently advises Indigenous clients in Ontario, Manitoba, and the Northwest Territories, with a practice focus on environmental conservation and natural resource management. He is a BCL/JD graduate from the McGill University Faculty of Law, and holds BSc and MSc degrees in Geography and Biology, respectively. Brett has expertise on climate change and other environmental matters from his past work in the sciences, including research on the impacts of climate change on migratory caribou. Before joining First Peoples Law, Brett interned with the Akwesasne Justice Department, Mohawk Council of Akwesasne; he provided support for Akwesasne’s legislative development initiatives. Brett is delighted to support discussions on sustainability and food security issues at the CAFLP conference.

Sylvain Charlebois

Dr. Sylvain Charlebois is a Professor in food distribution and policy in the Faculty of Management at Dalhousie University in Halifax. He is also the Senior Director of the Agri-food Analytics Lab, also located at Dalhousie University. He is as well the former Dean of the Faculty of Management at Dalhousie University. Before joining Dalhousie, he was affiliated with the University of Guelph's Arrell Food Institute, which he co-founded.

Known as "The Food Professor", his current research interest lies in the broad area of food distribution, security and safety. He is one of the world's most cited scholars in food supply chain management, food value chains and traceability. Since 2020, he co-hosts The Food Professor podcast, discussing issues in the food, foodservice, grocery and restaurant industries.

He has authored seven books on global food systems, notably one on poutine, an internationally known Canadian dish, titled Poutine Nation. He has also published over 750 peer-reviewed journal articles in several academic and professional publications. Furthermore, his research has been featured in several newspapers and media groups, including The Economist, the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, BBC, NBC, ABC, Fox News, Foreign Affairs, the Globe & Mail, the National Post and the Toronto Star.

Dr. Charlebois is an editor for the Trends in Food Science Technology journal. He sits on company boards, and supports many organizations as a special advisor, including some publicly traded companies. Charlebois is also a member of the Scientific Council of the Business Scientific Institute, based in Luxemburg. He conducts policy analysis, evaluation, and demonstration projects for government agencies and major foundations focusing on agricultural policies and community development both in Canada and in development settings. Dr. Charlebois is a member of the Global Food Traceability Centre's Advisory Board based in Washington DC, and a member of the National Scientific Committee of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) in Ottawa. He has testified on several occasions before parliamentary committees on food policy-related issues as an expert witness. He has been asked to act as an advisor on food and agricultural policies in many Canadian provinces, in the United States, Brazil, Austria, Italy, France, Belgium, China, Great Britain, Finland and the Netherlands.

Frédérick Clerson

Frédérick Clerson is an agricultural economist (BA and MA, Université Laval) that specialized in the study of agricultural policy in developed countries. He is completing is PhD in public policy with a specialization in agriculture at the University of Arkansas. He has been a lecturer at Université Laval since 2014 where he taught courses on topics such as collective marketing schemes, history of agriculture, agricultural policies, and economic thinking. Currently he also serves as an analyst at Centre d’étude sur les coûts de production en agriculture where he focuses on program simplification and on the new provincial program supporting the adoption of agri-environmental practices by farmers. His research interests include comparative lobbying, program design, and the representation of agriculture in public policies.

Josiane Rioux Collin

Josiane is a law professor at UQAM and a Quebec lawyer. She holds a Bachelor or Laws and a Master of Business Administration from Sherbrooke University as well as a Master of Laws from the University of Ottawa, where she studied the taxation of sugar-sweetened beverages from a food justice perspective. Currently, her thesis considers how the law can influence consumers' environments in relation with food. Her research interests include food law, business law and social corporate responsibility, and weight discrimination, namely.

David Connell

Dr. David Connell is a Professor in Ecosystem Science and Management at the University of Northern British Columbia. David’s research centres on agricultural land use planning to protect farmland at all levels of government (www.aglup.org). Central to this work is a method for evaluating the strength of legislative frameworks. He has published in the areas of policy analysis (plan quality), planning theory, and farmland protection, among others. David also studies socio-economic benefits of farmers markets.

Jessica Cytryn

Jessica is an associate in McCarthy Tétrault LLP’s Business Group and Retail and Consumer Markets Group in Montreal. Drawing on over a decade of experience working in food, beverage, and hospitality, Jessica assists businesses operating in these sectors, among others, in connection with their regulatory and compliance obligations and commercial matters. Jessica holds a WSET Level 2 Award in Wine and Spirits and is the President of the Montreal Restaurant Workers Relief Fund. She organizes wine tastings in her spare time.

Clarisse Delaville

Clarisse Delaville is a DCL (Ph.D.) student at McGill Faculty of Law. After completing two bachelor’s degrees in international relations and Swiss law at the University of Geneva (Switzerland), she obtained a Master’s degree in international law at the Geneva Graduate Institute (Switzerland) in 2021. She is passionate about international law and, agriculture & food governance. Her doctoral thesis focuses on gender inequalities and power imbalances in OECD agri-food systems, where she explores the role of informal and formal institutions in structuring those inequalities. She is the Vice Secretary General of the Société Québécoise de Droit International.

Melissa Gorrie

Melissa is a fourth-generation settler of European descent trained in the settler common legal system. She began her career with Ecojustice – a national non-profit environmental law organization - in 2010.  Her litigation work has included seeking protections for woodland caribou from oil sands development and successfully advocating for the federal government to secure emergency protection for endangered sage-grouse populations. She currently oversees Ecojustice’s law reform efforts to advocate for transformative shifts in law to support a just, sustainable, and decolonized future. Recent efforts include advocating for federal climate accountability and just transition legislation. Melissa has volunteered with numerous environmental and social justice organizations over the years, including co-founding Waste Free Edmonton, which successfully advocated for a single-use plastics bylaw. She also recently completed her Master of Laws degree. Her research focused on exploring the ways the settler environmental law community can be accountable to address settler colonialism while also supporting Indigenous sovereignty and the revitalization of Indigenous laws on Indigenous lands.

Fawn Jackson

Fawn is a leading voice in Canadian agriculture with a particular focus on sustainable agriculture systems, research and policy. In her role as Chief Sustainability Officer, Fawn works with the Dairy Farmers of Canada senior management team to inform and implement board strategy regarding sustainability, research and on-farm programs. Fawn’s team is leading the work on DFC’s goal of reaching net-zero greenhouse gas emissions from farm level dairy production by the year 2050, positioning Canada’s dairy industry as a global leader and climate positive solution for Canada’s green economy.
In a previous role Fawn was the Director of Policy and International Affairs with the Canadian Cattle Association leading their policy and government relations teams. Additionally, Fawn was the founding Executive Director of the Canadian Roundtable for Sustainable Beef. During her time at the CRSB Fawn led the 110+ multi-stakeholder member organization in defining, monitoring and certifying sustainable beef production in Canada. A key accomplishment during Fawn’s tenure at the CRSB included the development of a Certified Sustainable Beef Program, the first sustainable beef certification program in the world.

Fawn is passionate about the environment and mentorship and is proud to currently be serving as a board member with Ducks Unlimited Canada and 4-H Canada. She is a past board member of the Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef, and Canada’s Species at Risk Advisory Committee and was a founding participant of the Canadian Wetland Roundtable.
Fawn’s schooling included attending Pearson College UWC, the University of Alberta where she attained a Bachelor of Science in Natural Resource and Agricultural Economics and a Master of International Agriculture (with a focus on trade and development) from Oklahoma State University. Fawn grew up on a family beef and grain farm.
Fawn is an avid champion for multi-stakeholders working together to build sustainable agriculture systems.

Bill Jeffery

Bill Jeffery had been a public health nutrition lawyer for 25 years. He is the Executive Director of the small, Ottawa-based non-profit Centre for Health Science and Law (CHSL).

CHSL advocates reforms by publishing reports, testifying before legislative committees, participating in government consultations, speaking to the media, serving on government advisory committees and NGO coalitions, and hosting the biennial “Championing Public Health Nutrition” conferences since 2008.

CHSL is funded by subscriptions to its advertisement-free Food for Life Report, consulting fees from UNICEF for advising African and Asian governments, and non-discretionary government grants for Canadian magazines.

Bill has played key roles in efforts to address sodium and trans fat in the food supply, mandate nutrition labelling, ensure public funding and nutrition standards for school food programs, restrict advertising to children, and mandate Child Rights Impact Assessments. In 2018, he was honoured for his Canadian work by the Speaker of the Senate with its 150thanniversary commemorative medal in recognition of "improving the living conditions of all Canadians in a significant manner."  

Bill has represented four NGO networks before the Codex Alimentarius Commission, including codifying a back-of-pack nutrition labelling standard from 1998 until its adoption in 2012, front-of-pack nutrition labelling from proposal in 2016 to adoption in 2021, and environmental impact labelling since proposing it in 2019.

Bill has advocated public health and conflict-of-interest safeguards at the U.N. General Assembly since 2011, the W.H.O. since 2005, and the U.N. Human Rights Council since 2018, and an International Development Law Organization “Healthy Diets and Human Rights Research Initiative Advisory Board” advisory committee (since 2021). He was a founding Vice President of the Geneva Global Health Hub (G2H2) and Secretary of the International Association of Consumer Food Organizations. CHSL is accredited by the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).

Natasha Kim

Natasha Kim is currently the Assistant Deputy Minister, Strategic Policy Branch at  Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. Prior to this she was Associate Assistant Deputy Minister, Strategic and Program Policy at Immigration at Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC). Natasha also held the position of DG of Immigration branch at IRCC as well as various positions at the PCO, Public Safety Canada, Justice Canada and the Supreme Court of Canada. Natasha holds a Master of Laws from Harvard University, a Bachelor of Laws from Dalhousie University and majored in Women's Studies at the University of Alberta.

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Natasha Kim est actuellement sous-ministre adjointe, Direction générale des politiques stratégiques à Agriculture et Agroalimentaire Canada. Auparavant, elle était sous-ministre adjointe déléguée, Politiques stratégiques et de programmes à Immigration à Réfugiés et Citoyenneté Canada (IRCC). Natasha a également occupé le poste de DG de la Direction générale de l'immigration à IRCC ainsi que divers postes au BCP, à Sécurité publique Canada, à Justice Canada et à la Cour suprême du Canada. Natasha détient une maîtrise en droit de l'Université Harvard, un baccalauréat en droit de l'Université Dalhousie et s'est spécialisée en études des femmes à l'Université de l'Alberta.

Irena Knezevic

Irena Knezevic is an associate professor in Communication and Media Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, where she oversees the Food and Media Hub research initiative. She is the lead editor of Nourishing Communities: From Fractured Food Systems to Transformative Pathways (Springer 2017) and her work has appeared in journals of food, cultural, and communication studies, health research, and political ecology. Irena has taught food studies at college, university, and postgraduate levels, in communication studies, cultural studies, community development, and nutrition programs.

Elizabeth Kwan

Elizabeth Kwan is the policy lead on trade and migrant workers at the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC). The CLC is the national labour movement representing over 3 million workers across the entire food supply chain. Her work includes migrant and undocumented workers’ rights and protections. On trade, she advocates for strong and enforceable labour chapters in trade agreements. Elizabeth is the Co-Chair of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) Labour Domestic Advisory Group, and a member of the Canadian Food Policy Advisory Council.

Nadia Lambek

Nadia Lambek is an assistant professor at Western University, Faculty of Law, and a human rights lawyer, researcher and advocate focused on food system transitions and the rights of working people. Nadia is a founding member of the CAFLP, and is currently Co-Chair of the Association. She supports the Youth Working Group of the Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples’ Mechanism to the UN Committee on World Food Security. She is an editor of Rethinking Food Systems: Structural Challenges, New Strategies and the Law (Springer 2014).

Charles Levkoe

Charles Levkoe is the Canada Research Chair in Equitable and Sustainable Food Systems, ta member of the Royal society of Canada, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Sciences at Lakehead University. His community engaged research uses a food systems lens to better understand the importance of, and connections between social justice, ecological regeneration, regional economies and active democratic engagement.

Kat Lorimer

Kat Lorimer is a Research Associate on the Land Use team with the Smart Prosperity Institute based in Ottawa, Ontario. She has a BSc in biology from Queen’s University and a Master’s of Science in Environmental Sustainability from the University of Ottawa. Kat’s work as part of the Land Use team centers around how policy makers, industry, and farmers can work together to achieve clean growth goals on-farm. Much of the team’s work is grounded in interviews at workshops with stakeholders and farmers, to provide working context to literature-based policy solutions. Some of her work also looks at species conservation on private landscapes, such as farms. In her spare time, she enjoys walking her dog and knitting.

Shane Martinez

Shane Martínez is a Toronto-based lawyer, adjunct professor, and LLM candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Over the last 11 years he has represented migrant farmworkers in numerous criminal, human rights, and health & safety cases at courts and tribunals across Ontario.

Rory McAlpine

Rory McAlpine recently retired as Senior Vice President, Government and Industry Relations with Maple Leaf Foods Inc. He is currently a board member of agri-food sector organizations including the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute, VIDO (University of Saskatchewan) and the Food from Thought Strategic Advisory Board (University of Guelph). For fifteen years at Maple Leaf Foods, Mr. McAlpine led the company’s engagement with government and industry partners on matters of public policy, programs, regulatory affairs and international trade.

Tyler McCann

Tyler McCann is Managing Director of the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute, a national think tank and network, that advances policy solutions to meet the needs of Canada’s agriculture and food system, of today and tomorrow. For nearly two decades, he has advised Canadian Ministers, including Agriculture and Agri-Food and Natural Resources, and served clients including farm groups, industry associations and small and large businesses. He and his wife operate a cow-calf and goat farm in Western Quebec.

Ian McCreary

Ian McCreary, together with his wife and kids operate a mixed grain and livestock farm in central Saskatchewan. Ian holds Bachelors and Masters degrees in Agriculture Economics. Ian has been active in Canadian Agriculture and Trade policy throughout his farming career. Ian served on the Board of directors of the Canadian Wheat board, chaired the Saskatchewan Community Pasture Patrons Association, and oversaw a research program on food aid and food markets for the Canadian Foodgrains Bank. Ian’s most recent work on Canadian Ag policy has been with Farmers for Climate Solutions. Ian has chaired two task forces. The first, was a group of farmers, Canadian policy experts, and preeminent Canadian agriculture scientists tasked with identifying best management practices with the potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from Canadian agriculture. The second was a group of leading Canadian Agriculture Economists and policy researchers who examined the degree to which Canada’s Business Rick Management practices may impact changes to more climate friendly farming practices.

Chris Ramsaroop

Chris Ramsaroop is an organizer with Justicia for Migrant Workers. He is also an instructor in the Caribbean Studies Program at the University of Toronto and a clinic instructor at the University of Windsor, Faculty of Law. Chris is presently completing his PhD at OISE/University of Toronto.

Scott Ross

After serving as CFA's Assistant Executive Director since 2018, Scott Ross was promoted to the Executive Director of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture in 2022. Prior to that Scott served as CFA's Director of BRM and Farm Policy for six years, where he covered a wide variety of agricultural issues. Scott's policy work has given him a unique insight on how to develop and implement policy, while balancing a diversity of stakeholder interests. Scott has extensive experience in collaborating across the agri-food sector to achieve ambitious goals, most recently including co-founding the Agriculture Carbon Alliance, a coalition of 15 national farm associations advocating on behalf of farmers with regard to carbon pricing and environmental policies. Prior to his role at the CFA, Scott worked with the Economic Developers Council of Ontario and the University of Waterloo researching how municipal and regional governments can raise the profile of agriculture as an economic development priority.

Robert W. Scriven

Bob Scriven is a Partner with the Madorin, Snyder LLP and has been practising law since 2012. Bob has represented clients before all levels of Court in Ontario. In addition, Bob has represented clients before Provincial and Federal Tribunals, including the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, the Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs Tribunal, Normal Farm Practices Board, the Ontario Land Tribunal and the Canadian Agricultural Review Tribunal. Bob restricts his practice to matters concerning agricultural and commercial matters. Bob is a co-author of Agriculture Law in Canada 2nd Ed. Bob is a former director on the National Board of Directors for the Huntington Society of Canada and is a member of the Waterloo and Bruce Law Associations.

Kathleen Sullivan

Kathleen Sullivan is one of Canada’s most dynamic and experienced agri-food industry leaders with a 25 year career in Canada’s food sector. In August 2018, Kathleen was appointed as CEO of the newly-formed Food and Beverage Canada – Aliments et boissons Canada – an organization representing Canadian food and beverage manufacturers. Kathleen has held a number of senior positions in Canada’s agri-food sector including Executive Director of the Canadian Agri-Food Trade Alliance, President of the Canadian Agri-food Policy Institute, General Manager of the Animal Nutrition Association of Canada and President Sullivan Consulting. Kathleen has a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Carleton University and a law degree from the University of Western Ontario.

Chloe Rourke

Chloe is a third year law student at McGill and the Clinical Director of the Food and Agriculture Law Clinic at McGill. During her studies, she has also coordinated a legal information clinic for restaurant workers. Chloe is interested in how food and agricultural policy intersects health, workers' rights, animal welfare and climate policy. Prior to law school Chloe worked in disability management and mental health education.

Jeannette Tramhel

Jeannette M.E. Tramhel is a Senior Legal Officer with the Department of International Law, Secretariat for Legal Affairs, Organization of American States (OAS), in Washington, D.C., wher she is responsible for the OAS portfolio on private international law (PIL), i.e., supporting harmonization and codification efforts in collaboration with other PIL international organizations, supporting domestic law reforms among OAS member states, providing legal advice to OAS political organs and secretariat support to the Inter-American Judicial Committee. She has a longstanding passion for global food security in the international development context, dating back to early days as a CUSO volunteer. Jeannette holds a B.Sc. in Ag. Economics (UofA), LL.B. (Queen’s), LL.M. (Georgetown) and is a member of the bar in Ontario and New York. For more info, see: www.foodsecuritybydesign.com

Husen Ahmed Tura

Dr. Husen Tura obtained his Doctorate Degree in Law (LL.D) from the University of Eastern Finland (UEF) Law School in March 2020. He was a project researcher and an Early-Stage Researcher at the UEF Law School between January 2016 and December 2021 where he conducted research on food law and policy in Ethiopia, and taught courses on EU Food Law and Food Law and Policy. He had also worked as a lecturer in law at three public universities in Ethiopia between August 2011 and December 2015. These are Addis Ababa University School of Law, Ambo University School of Law, and Wolaita Sodo University School of Law. In addition to teaching courses on contract law, international trade law, investment law, and legal research methods, Dr. Tura has published academic papers related to the right to food, smallholder's land rights, urban agriculture and right to food, right to defence counsel, and corporate governance in Ethiopia. His papers appeared in Land Use Policy, Third World Quarterly, Nordic Journal of Human Rights, African Journal of Legal Studies and International Human Rights Law Review, amongst others.

Vasanthi Venkatesh

Dr. Vasanthi Venkatesh is Associate Professor- Law, Land, and Local Economies, at University of Windsor, Faculty of Law, and member of Justicia for Migrant Workers.

Renata Watkin

Renata Watkin is a Ph.D. candidate at the Faculty of Law of the University of Ottawa. She holds an LL.B. from the University of Ottawa (2010), a Master’s Degree in International Affairs from Carleton University (2001) and has lectured on international trade law at Carleton University for several years. Prior to becoming a lawyer, Renata Watkin was a diplomat specializing in international trade. She has been drawn to the area of geographical indications as a function of her international trade experience and her studies as a wine specialist, having been granted the Wine and Spirit Advanced Certificate with distinction by the London-based Wine and Spirit Education Trust (WSET).

Shaozeng Zhang

Shaozeng is a Professor of the Postgraduate Program in Sustainable Development of the Humid Tropic-PPGDSTU of the Centre of Advanced Amazonian Studies (NAEA). Shaozeng is responsible for teaching disciplines as Interdisciplinarity Epistemic Foundations, State and Public Policy and Regulation and Society.