Hugh is a consulting specialist and owner of Qu’anglo Communications & Consulting, an enterprise formed in 2004 specializing in communications, strategic planning and development initiatives for the agricultural and agri-environmental sectors, and for rural communities.

A graduate in farm management from Macdonald College, McGill University, he worked until 2003 as the Executive Director of the Quebec Farmers' Association and Managing Editor of the Quebec Farmers' Advocate, the QFA's monthly newspaper.

He is the agricultural commentator on the “Farm Panel” for CBC-Montreal's Radio Noon program, and a director of the Canadian Farm Writer's Federation (CFWF), the Quebec association for Adult Learning, and international director of the Association for Communication Excellence (ACE) in agricultural, natural resource and human and life sciences. He was a founding member of the Quebec Learners Network, an organization dedicated to providing life-long learning opportunities through the application of information and communications technologies.

In April 1999 he became a Fellow of LEAD Canada (Leadership in Environment and Development), following completion of a two-year professional development program focused on sustainable development. He represented Canada as part of a 5-country delegation from LEAD International at the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development in April 2000.