Dr. Joyce Boye is the Director General of the Food and Nutrition Directorate within the Health Products and Food Branch at Health Canada. Prior to her current position, she was Director General with the Science and Technology Branch of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) where she had responsibility for AAFC’s 6 Research and Development Centres and 13 Research Farms and Sites on the Canadian Prairies. She also served as  Director of the two AAFC Research and Development Centres (RDC) in Summerland and Agassiz (British Columbia, Canada) from 2015 to 2019, and as Acting Director of the RDCs in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland from 2014 to 2015. Dr. Boye worked as Senior Research Scientist at the AAFC Food Research and Development Centre (RDC) in St. Hyacinthe (Quebec, Canada) from 1997 to 2014, where she led a variety of research projects focused on developing techniques for the isolation, extraction and characterization of proteins and other bioactives from plant sources, and identifying areas of application for the food industry. Internationally, she served as a member of the World Bank Agricultural Pull Mechanism Initiative Working Group on Nutrition and as a Visiting Expert for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (UN FAO). In 2016, she was appointed Special Ambassador for North America for the International Year of Pulses by the UN FAO. Dr. Boye is a former Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholar. She has a Ph. D in Food Science from McGill University (Dean’s Honor List). Her Bachelor’s Degree was in Chemical Engineering. She has written and presented over 320 scientific and technical papers/reports/lectures and is senior author/co-author of 28 book chapters and has co-edited three books.