stuart taylor

iQ director

Stu holds a Master's degree in epidemiology from the University of Ottawa, where he developed a keen interest in international health. From 1998 to 2003 he worked with the Canadian Foodgrains Bank as the program analyst, with a focus on the nutritional impact of food aid and food security projects.

With his family, he moved to Zambia in 2004 to serve as a volunteer with the Mennonite Central Committee. Together with his wife - an agronomist and former Agriculture Representative with Manitoba Agriculture - he assisted a national church to develop a food security component to its HIV/AIDS programme. They returned to Canada in 2006, at which point he took on his current role with IDE. He has three young daughters and is making steady progress in his facility with crayons, glue and bedtime stories.