Primary Job Title Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs and Purpose Champion Primary Organization 
Maple Leaf Foods
Location Canada, North America Gender Female
LinkedIn View on LinkedIn
Lynda Kuhn is a Senior Vice President, Public Affairs and Purpose Champion at Maple Leaf Foods, where she leads communications and the activation of the Company’s purpose to Raise the Good in Food and vision to be the most sustainable protein company on earth.
Ms. Kuhn is also Chair of the recently established Maple Leaf Centre for Action on Food
Security, a registered non-profit organization. In this capacity, she is responsible for leading the implementation of the Centre’s mandate to work collaboratively to reduce food insecurity in Canada by 50% by 2030. To support this objective, the Centre’s work focuses on advocacy, knowledge transfer and funding innovation that advances sustainable food security.
Ms. Kuhn joined Maple Leaf Foods in 2002 as Vice President of Investor and Public Relations. In 2013, she assumed responsibility for developing and leading the implementation of a holistic strategy to embed sustainability into Maple Leaf’s culture and business. Prior to joining the corporate world, Ms. Kuhn spent her earlier career leading the development and execution of development strategies and initiatives at the regional and community level, including eight years working with First Nations Mi’Kmaq communities in Atlantic Canada.
In 2009, Ms. Kuhn founded Nyota, a home for orphaned and destitute children in Kenya. She has subsequently worked with local educators in Kenya to establish the Wezesha Education Foundation, with the vision to empower them to become leaders through education. Wezesha provides financial support and mentoring to high potential, extremely impoverished young people, which enables them to pursue their secondary and post-secondary education.
Ms. Kuhn holds a Bachelor of Arts degree (cum laude) from Dalhousie University, Halifax and a Master of Arts degree in Economic Anthropology from McGill University, Montreal.
