Kierans Lecture Dinner 2026

Bill Morneau served as Canada's 39th Minister of Finance from 2015 to 2020, and was also Governor at the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Between 1990 and 2015, Mr. Morneau led the multinational human resources firm Morneau Shepell (now TELUS Health). Mr. Morneau currently serves as Chair of NovaSource Power Services, Director at CIBC and at Clairvest Group Inc., Chair of the Advisory Board of Magnet at Toronto Metropolitan University, Chair of the Ditchley Canada Foundation, Co-Chair of the National Arts Centre’s The Next Act campaign, and member of the Rotman School of Management Dean’s Advisory Board. He is a Distinguished Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto, an Executive in Residence at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, a Senior Visiing Fellow at the London School of Economics, and a Visiting Fellow at Nuffield College, University of Oxford. In January 2023, he released his book Where to From Here, outlining his views on how Canadian economic policy can increase prosperity. In 2021, he was Senior Fellow at the Jackson Insitute at Yale University. Mr. Morneau founded a school for Somali and Sudanese girls in a UN Refugee camp in northern Kenya and is currently sponsoring a scholarship program for young women refugees at the University of Toronto. He is past chair of St. Michael's Hospital, Covenant House, and the C.D. Howe Insitute. He holds an M.Sc. (Econ.) from the London School of Economics, an M.B.A. from INSEAD, a B.A. from Western University, and received an honorary doctorate from Toronto Metropolitan University.