Dr. Doyon is a professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Consumer Science at Laval University and an active member of various Research Group in Canada. He has won numerous prizes and recognition in Canada and the U.S. throughout his career and has been in numerous leadership positions such as President of the Canadian Agricultural Economic society and, until recently, Chair of his Department at Laval University. His applied work has led him over the years to be on numerous industry committees in agricultural productions and forestry, as well as on task forces at the demand of ministers of agriculture at the federal and provincial levels.

Professor Doyon research interests are agricultural policy analysis, market design and structure and the valuation of goods and services.

Dr. Vaillancourt obtained his doctorate in veterinary medicine (1983) and his master of science in clinical sciences (1986) from the University of Montreal and his doctorate in population medicine from the University of Minnesota (1990).

Before returning to the University of Montreal, he held professorships at the University of Guelph in Ontario (1990-1996), at North Carolina State University in Raleigh (1996-2004) and was a visiting professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City (2002-2003) and at the National School of Veterinary Medicine in Toulouse, France (2017-2018). In addition to his position at the University of Montreal, Dr. Vaillancourt acted as the first coordinator of the Quebec team for the control of infectious poultry diseases for the design and implementation of emergency measures. He was chief auditor of avian influenza and foot-and-mouth disease simulations in Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, and France.

He was director of the research group on the epidemiology of zoonoses and public health (2009-2017) and associate director of the Public Health Research Institute of the University of Montreal (2013-2017). He has also been a member of Canadian advisory committees for the control of infectious diseases in poultry, swine and beef cattle. At the request of the World Organization for Animal Health, he also participated in the creation of the poultry medicine section of the World Veterinary Education in Production Animal Health originally based at the University of Luxembourg, now at the University of Montreal.

He has served as an expert in animal health and welfare for the National Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety (France), in particular on the emergency committees for avian flu and African swine fever.

In 1997, he received the Bayer-Snoeyenbos New Investigator Award from the American Association of Avian Pathologists. In 1998, he received the Outstanding Extension Service Award in North Carolina, and in 2000, he was inducted in the Academy of Outstanding Faculty Engaged in Extension at North Carolina State University. In 2004, Dr Vaillancourt received The Lamplighter Award from the US Poultry & Egg Association for his contributions to the American poultry industry on infectious disease research and on biosecurity. In 2012, he was elected foreign member of the French Academy of Veterinary Medicine; and in 2016 he was also elected foreign member in the National Academy of Medicine (France). In 2019, the French government made him Knight of the Order of Agricultural Merit.

Currently leading the initiative to create the World Animal Biosecurity Association.