FAIR Canada is pleased to announce the appointment of Tania Willumsen to the FAIR Canada Board of Directors.
Ms. Willumsen has over forty years of experience as a senior executive in the areas of institutional investment management and pensions. A past Director with the Institute of Corporate Directors, she has been a frequent speaker on pension and corporate governance issues for the Association of Canadian Pension Fund Management, the Canadian Pension and Benefits Institute, The Canadian Institute, and the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans. In 1999, as a follow-up to the TSE Dey Report, Ms. Willumsen organized and spoke at the first western ICD-sponsored roundtable about governance issues.
A graduate of the University of Manitoba, Ms. Willumsen began her investment career as a research director at a Vancouver investment dealer. Ms. Willumsen subsequently moved to Toronto to join Pension Finance Associates as a senior consultant, where she worked with Keith Ambachtsheer and Don Ezra. Following her retirement from AMI Partners Investment Counsel, Ms. Willumsen set up her own investment consulting firm in Calgary, specializing in asset consulting and trust fund governance. Ms. Willumsen continues to serve as an independent advisor on numerous pension and investment committees.
Ms. Willumsen currently serves as a Director on the Alberta Motor Association (which she chairs), AMA Insurance, Canada Council for the Arts (where she chairs the Investment Committee), and the Killam Endowment Trust.
Throughout her life, Ms. Willumsen has been an active participant in the not-for-profit sector, serving on numerous boards in the arts, children’s welfare and healthcare.The staff and Directors of FAIR Canada look forward to working with Ms. Willumsen to expand FAIR’s reach to the western provinces.
