Chairperson of the Gairdner Foundation, Co-founder and Co-Chair of the Canadian Children’s Literacy Foundation, Co-Chair of the Leader’s Council of McGill’s Tanenbaum Open Science Institute (TOSI), Advisor of the McGill University Health Centre Interdisciplinary Initiative in Infection and Immunity (MI4), and member of The Committee on the Future of Corporate Governance in Canada, Board of Stanford University’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS), and, the Trilateral Commission. Among others, served on the boards of the Royal Bank of Canada, Four Seasons Hotels, Alcan, Yellow Media Inc., Hydro One (Ontario), and CGI Group, and as a member of the President’s Council of the New York Academy of Sciences, the Conference Board of Canada and the CD Howe Institute. Served for over a decade as Principal and Vice Chancellor (President), McGill University; Former Vice-President (Research and International Relations), University of Toronto. Recipient of numerous domestic and international honorary degrees and awards of distinction. Officer of the Order of Canada, l’Ordre National du Québec, Specially Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Fellow of the Institute of Corporate Directors.

Building on a distinguished career of clinical, scientific and policy contributions, qualifications include more than 25 years of senior administrative leadership concentrated in higher education, public policy and research and development; extensive board experience as a director on executive, human resources and compensation, governance, investment, finance and risk committees in the corporate and not-for-profit sectors.