2015 Annual Scholars' Dinner: Tiff Macklem, Dean, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
Crisis Management to Crisis Leadership: Theory and Practice in the Response to the Global Financial Crisis
The Institute’s Scholars’ Dinner has been made possible through a generous grant by Dr. Wendy Dobson, Professor at the Rotman School of Management and Co-Director of the Rotman Institute for International Business.
Tiff Macklem, a well-known expert in monetary and financial systems, was appointed Dean of the Rotman School of Management on July 1, 2014 for a five-year term. As dean, Mr. Macklem oversees the School’s operations, and has authority over the budget, appointments and promotions. In May 2015, he was appointed Chair of the Global Risk Institute in Financial Services (GRI), a not-for-profit institute that provides applied, integrative research and education programs that build risk capacity and stimulate evidence-based debate.
Prior to becoming dean of the Rotman School, Mr. Macklem served as senior deputy governor of the Bank of Canada, sharing responsibility with the governor and four deputy governors for monetary policy and for the Bank’s role in promoting financial stability. In that role, he was the Bank’s chief operating officer and a member of its board of directors. Mr. Macklem has also played a leading role in efforts to ensure stable financial systems worldwide through the Financial Stability Board.
Mr. Macklem had previously served as associate deputy minister of the federal Department of Finance and Canada’s finance deputy at the G7 and G20. He also served as chair of the Standing Committee on Standards Implementation of the Financial Stability Board. In that role, he worked to establish an international system of peer review to promote and assess the implementation of new financial standards across the 24 most financially important countries in the world.
Across his career, Tiff Macklem has contributed articles to such publications as Canadian Public Policy, Canadian Journal of Economics and the Journal of International Money and Finance, while providing chapters and commentaries in over a dozen books and conference proceedings.
Under his leadership, Rotman continues to thrive, and in 2015 was once again ranked by the Financial Times as Canada’s top business school, and fourth in the world for both its research and PhD program.
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