Claire Citeau is Executive Vice-President at the Canadian Meat Council, where she leads international trade engagement and advocacy strategy for Canada’s $25 billion industry, acts as a trade envoy to Washington, D.C., and leads a cross functional team advancing Canadian agri food interests in complex geopolitical environments. She is also a Senior Fellow at the Canadian Agri Food Policy Institute, Canadian Global Affairs Institute and University of Ottawa, where she provides mentoring and thought leadership on the nexus of trade, agriculture, food and water security, and sustainability.

Previously, as Executive Director of the Canadian Agri Food Trade Alliance, she played a central advisory role in major free trade negotiations, improving market access conditions for Canadian exporters across dozens of markets. She later served as Executive Director of the European Chamber of Commerce in Canada and as an Advisor with the Inter American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture, supporting capacity building and policy dialogue across the Americas and Europe. A former senior provincial trade official, she led a multi million dollar initiative that introduced new products and exporters into priority international markets and opened offices abroad, generating significant new export sales and long term commercial partnerships.

Claire is completing an LL.M. in international law. Fully bilingual in English and French, she has lived and worked in Europe and Africa prior to establishing herself in Canada.