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For boards of directors confronted with the sometimes conflicting mandates of overseeing profitability while also meeting stakeholders’ expanding expectations, understanding the evolving role they and their corporations play in society is critical. Following our interview with ICD Fellow John Manley, the video features John Haigh, Co-Director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government discussing the role of the corporation in society and what it means to be a corporate citizen.  We then present a panel featuring Simon Kennedy, Canada’s Deputy Minister of Industry and Innovation, Carine Smith Ihenacho, Chief Governance and Compliance Officer, Norges Bank and Karina Litvack, director, Eni S.p.A. They provide their perspective on business’ interaction with societal change and the opportunities available to corporate leaders to address environmental and social challenges.

Each session is moderated by Martin Cej, Partner, Longview Communications and Public Affairs.

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Honourable John Manley, P.C., O.C., F.ICD Headshot

Honourable John Manley, P.C., O.C., F.ICD

Chair, CIBC Bank USA and CAE; Chair, Governance Committee, Telus

Honourable John Manley, P.C., O.C., F.ICD

Chair, CIBC Bank USA and CAE; Chair, Governance Committee, Telus
Mr. Manley joined Bennett Jones LLP as Senior Business Adviser in September 2019. He is best known as a former Deputy Prime Minister of Canada. He served in the Canadian Parliament from 1988 to 2004 as M.P. for Ottawa South. From 1993 to 2003, he was a Minister in former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien’s government, serving in the portfolios of Industry, Foreign Affairs and Finance, in addition to being Deputy Prime Minister.
 
Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Mr. Manley was named Chair of a Cabinet Committee on Public Security and Anti-terrorism, serving as the counterpart to Governor Tom Ridge, the first U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security. In recognition of the role he played following 9/11, TIME Canada named him "2001 Newsmaker of the Year.

After a 16-year career in politics, Mr. Manley returned to the private sector in 2004 where he has continued to be active in public policy as a media commentator, speaker and adviser to governments of differing political stripes. He is Fellow of the C.D. Howe Institute, a founding member of the Wilson Center Global Advisory Council, a member of the Brookings International Advisory Council and Chair of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI) Advisory Council.
 
In the private sector, Mr. Manley has practiced law, and served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Business Council of Canada (from 2010 to 2018). He has been a very active corporate director, and currently serves as Chair of the Boards of Directors of CIBC Bank USA and CAE, and is a Board Director of TELUS. He is the immediate past chair of CIBC.

An Officer of the Order of Canada, Mr. Manley graduated from Carleton University in mathematics and political science, and in law from the University of Ottawa where he was the gold medalist and subsequently served as law clerk to the Chief Justice of Canada, Bora Laskin. He is the recipient of many awards and honours, including honorary doctorates from six Canadian Universities. He is also an honorary Chief of the Blood Nation of Alberta.
Honourable John Manley, P.C., O.C., F.ICD Headshot

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