Financière agricole du Québec
Développement international

• Serge Paré, Trustee and Chief Executive Officer
• Danyelle Allen, Executive Assistant
• Marie-Christine Bélanger, Project Manager
• Jonathan Boudreau, Project Manager
• Alain Demers, Strategic Advisor

Danyelle Allen, Executive Assistant, FADQDI

Ms. Allen has held a number of positions in the Québec government in an advisory and coordination capacity with various entities. She has been with La Financière agricole du Québec for close to ten years in different departments, including the vice-president’s office for corporate affaires. Ms. Allen is in charge of planning internal and external activities as well as communications and marketing for FADQDI.

Marie-Christine Bélanger, Project Manager, FADQDI

Ms. Bélanger obtained a Bachelor's degree in agronomy, a Master's degree in precision agriculture and a Doctoral degree in plant florescence. She is competent in the fields of plant physiology, in geomatics and in remote sensing. Ms. Bélanger has worked as an engineering consultant; she has conducted several research projects and is the author of numerous scientific publications. She has worked in Latin America and in Europe. Today, she is in charge of scientific follow-up and business development in geomatics, insurance and with research centres for FADQDI.

Jonathan Boudreau, B.Sc., Project Manager, FADQDI

Mr. Boudreau is a geomatics graduate and is currently finishing a Master’s in remote sensing in forest ecosystems, which he has worked on in conjunction with NASA. He has a specialization in GIS design, spatial database design, lidar remote sensing and in processing and classifying multispectral images. He has worked at the Canadian forest Service, the Canadian Center for Remote Sensing and the Geological Survey of Canada. Ground survey planning and use of the GPS technology are among his skills. M. Boudreau is in charge of research and monitoring systems as well as development and exportation of open source solutions for FADQDI.

Alain Demers, Strategic Advisor, FADQDI

Mr. Demers holds a degree in pure and applied science, in economics, accounting, taxation and business administration. After having spent some ten years teaching economics, he worked in the private sector in an accounting firm for his enrolment into the Ordre des comptables agréés du Québec. Employed by the government of Quebec since the beginning of the nineties, he has successively held positions as a tax director at the Quebec Department of Finance, as director of analysis and development with the Department of Research, Science and Technology and then as director of research and planning for La Financière agricole. He has been holding this position from 2004, until he joined FADQDI in 2009. In addition to his full-time professional activities, Mr. Demers has taught in the taxation program leading to a Master's degree at the University of Sherbrooke, where in fact he was one of the first members of the orientation committee of the research chair in taxation and public finance. He has also performed several international consultation assignments, namely during three on-site missions to Mali and another in Haiti.