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Hugh Mackenzie

Hugh Mackenzie

Board Member

Hugh Mackenzie provides economic consulting services to governments, unions and other organizations in the non-profit sector on budgetary policy; public and private sector cost analysis; public finance; and economic policy and to unions and employee associations in collective bargaining and interest arbitration. His research interests include provincial and federal budgets and budgetary policy; local government finance; retirement income policy; health care finance and education finance.

Mr. Mackenzie has worked for more than 40 years in a variety of different public policy capacities, at all three levels of government as well as in the non-profit sector. From 1991 to 1994, he was Executive Director of the Ontario Fair Tax Commission.

Hugh Mackenzie is a member of the board of the newly-formed Investment Management Corporation of Ontario (IMCO). He is a former member of the boards of the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan (OTPP) and the Ontario Public Service Pension Plan (OPB). He is a Research Associate of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

He holds an Honours BA in Economics from the University of Western Ontario and an MA in Economics (Public Finance) from the University of Wisconsin (Madison). He has received the ICD.D designation through the directors education program of the Rotman School of Business at the University of Toronto.

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Acknowledgement of Traditional Land

We would like to acknowledge this sacred land on which the Wellesley Institute operates. It has been a site of human activity for 15,000 years. This land is the territory of the Huron-Wendat and Petun First Nations, the Seneca, and most recently, the Mississaugas of the Credit River. The territory was the subject of the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, an agreement between the Iroquois Confederacy and Confederacy of the Ojibwe and allied nations to peaceably share and care for the resources around the Great Lakes.

Today, the meeting place of Toronto is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work in the community, on this territory.

Revised by the Elders Circle (Council of Aboriginal Initiatives) on November 6, 2014

In the spirit of equity and inclusion, if we can improve on this statement, please contact us. Thank you.