Al Mussell is the Research Director at Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute. Al holds a PhD in Agricultural Economics from the University of Minnesota, where he was a Fulbright Scholar, and bachelors and masters degrees from the University of Guelph. Al’s expertise is in agricultural and trade policy, agricultural marketing, and agricultural systems. Al is a past-President of the Canadian Agricultural Economics Society and past-Chair of the Ontario Pork Industry Council.