As Principal of DMci Strategies, David McInnes is a strategic advisor, speaker and facilitator on change and the opportunities facing the Canadian and global food system. As part of this role from 2020-2024, he initiated and led an unprecedented private-public coalition of over 150 partners to create Canada’s first agri-food sustainability index, the National Index on Agri-Food Performance.
David also founded the Centre for Agri-Food Benchmarking which is dedicated to evolving the Index. David is now a Senior Fellow and Steering Committee member of the Centre. David is a board member of the National Circle on Indigenous Agriculture and Food (NCIAF), the Agricultural Genomics in Action Centre (AG-ACt), and Agricultural Research and Innovation Ontario (ARIO). He is an Arrell Food Fellow with the Arrell Food Institute at the University of Guelph and an Affiliate of McGill University’s Institute for Global Food Security.
Past employment includes being President and CEO of the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute, Vice-President, International Relations with MDS Nordion, a Canadian-based global supplier of medical isotopes, and he worked for the Canadian Bankers Association, Scotiabank, and a Royal Commission on the Canadian economy. David is a graduate of the London School of Economics (MSc.) and Dalhousie University (B.A.).
