Kathleen Taylor

Biography

 Canadian national, born 1957. Kathleen Taylor has been a member of the Board of Directors and a member of the Audit Committee since April 2015 and Vice-Chair and a member of the Compensation Committee and the Governance & Nomination Committee since April 2017. Her one-year term of office ends on the day of the next Annual General Meeting of Shareholders. Kathleen Taylor obtained a Master’s degree of Business Administration from Schulich School of Business, a law degree from Osgoode Hall Law School and a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree from the University of Toronto, all in Canada. Kathleen Taylor is the former President and Chief Executive Officer of Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, Canada, where she served in a variety of senior leadership roles from 1989 to 2013. Kathleen Taylor has been member of the Board of the Royal Bank Canada1 since November 2001, and its Chair since January 2014. She has been a director of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board since October 2013 and a director of Air Canada1 since May 2016. Ms. Taylor is Chair of the Board of the SickKids Hospital Foundation, Canada, and a member of the Hospital’s Board of Trustees. She is also a member of the Principal’s International Advisory Board of McGill University and of the Dean’s Advisory Council of the Schulich School of Business of York University, both Canada. She is a member of the National Council of the C.D. Howe Institue, Canada, and the Co-Chair of its Human Capital Policy Council.

Research Interest

 Business Administration