Claire Citeau

Senior Vice President, Trade and Global Relations, Canadian Meat Council (Canada) 

Claire Citeau is Senior Vice President, Trade and Global Relations, at the Canadian Meat Council, where she leads international trade engagement and advocacy strategy for Canada’s $32-billion meat industry, acts as a trade envoy to Washington, D.C., and leads a cross-functional team advancing Canadian agrifood interests in complex geopolitical environments. She is also a senior fellow at the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute and a senior fellow at the 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 and advancing the integration of sustainability into trade policy. A former senior provincial trade official, she led a multimillion-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. 

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