Elizabeth D. Wilson
FCPA, FCA
Director since 2022
Ms. Wilson is Chair of the Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada, a position she has held since October 2023 and was Vice-Chair from October 2021 to October 2023. She is the former Chief Executive Officer of Dentons Canada LLP and was a member of the global leadership team, serving on the Global Board and Global Management Committee from 2017 to 2022. Prior to this role, Ms. Wilson was an audit partner at KPMG from 2000 to 2016 and served as Managing Partner at KPMG in the Greater Toronto Area from 2009 to 2016. Between 2005 and 2016, she also served as a member of KPMG’s Management Committee in various leadership positions, including Canadian Managing Partner Community Leadership, Canadian Managing Partner Regions and Enterprise with responsibility for 24 regional offices across Canada, and Chief Human Resources Officer.
In addition, Ms. Wilson serves on the boards of directors of IGM Financial, IG Wealth Management and Mackenzie since 2018, and on the board of Thomson Reuters since June 2022. She is currently a trustee and Audit Committee Chair at The Hospital for Sick Children, as well as a director of The WoodGreen Foundation and Traferox Technologies Inc. She was previously a director and Chair of the Toronto Region Board of Trade, director and Vice-Chair at the National Ballet of Canada, a trustee for the Ontario Science Centre, Governor and Audit Committee Chair for Trinity College School and a Director at Toronto’s CivicAction.
Ms. Wilson was appointed Fellow (FCA) by the CPA profession in Ontario in 2003. She was the recipient of MicroSkills’ Margot Franssen Leadership Award in 2013, and the YWCA Women of Distinction Award in 2015. She was also named as one of the Women’s Executive Network’s (WXN) Top 100 Most Powerful Women in 2008 and in 2011, and one of Canada’s Top 25 Women of Influence in 2013. Most recently, in 2022, Ms. Wilson was inducted into the WXN’s Hall of Fame.
Ms. Wilson is a member of the following committees: