TORONTO, July 14, 2021 /CNW/ - Royal Bank of Canada (TSX:
RY) (NYSE: RY) today announced that Roberta
L. Jamieson will be appointed to its board of directors,
effective August 1, 2021.
Ms. Jamieson will join the Governance and Risk Committees.
"We are pleased to be welcoming Roberta to RBC's board of
directors. Roberta is a transformational community and business
leader, and her wide-ranging insights and experience will deepen
our board's governance and risk capabilities," said Kathleen Taylor, Chair of the Board, RBC. "Like
RBC, its board embraces the values of diversity and inclusion for
innovation and growth. We're proud that now 46% of board members
are women and 23% are BIPOC, and we recognize the inherent value in
bringing more voices and experiences from different backgrounds to
our board as we support the bank in delivering on its purpose of
helping clients thrive and communities prosper."
Ms. Jamieson is the former President and Chief Executive Officer
of Indspire, a national Indigenous charity that invests in the
education of First Nations, Inuit and Métis people across Canada.
Prior to this, she served as Chief of the Six Nations of the Grand
River Territory from 2001 until 2004. Ms. Jamieson also brings
public service experience, including her decade-long tenure as the
Ombudsman of Ontario and her
appointments as Commissioner of the Indian Commission of
Ontario and member of the Gender
Equality Advisory Council of the G7 Summit in 2018.
Ms. Jamieson's work in non-adversarial conflict resolution is
globally recognized, and for which she received the Order of Canada
in 1994.
Ms. Jamieson is also a member of the Board of Directors of
Deloitte Canada and co-chair of the
Indigenous Advisory Council of the Canadian National Railway
Company. She has previously served on the boards of Hydro One Ltd.,
Ontario Power Generation and Stewardship Ontario.
In addition to being an Officer of the Order of Canada, Ms.
Jamieson has received 30 honorary Doctor of Laws degrees as well as
numerous business and community awards, including the inaugural
Mary Parker Follett Award for
conflict resolution, the Indigenous Women in Leadership Award from
the Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business and the Queen
Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal. Ms. Jamieson graduated
from the University of Western
Ontario's Law School in 1976, becoming the first First
Nations woman to earn a law degree in Canada.
RBC's board strives to ensure director recruitment and
succession planning efforts include a wide variety of expertise,
perspectives and backgrounds, and take into consideration important
factors such as gender and non-gender diversity, ethnicity, race,
ancestral origin, age, geography, background, sexual orientation,
and other dimensions of diversity. In particular, the Board
considers the level of representation of women, BIPOC and other
diverse groups when considering candidates to nominate.
For more information on RBC's Board of Directors, please visit
our Corporate Governance site.
ABOUT RBC
Royal Bank of Canada is a global financial
institution with a purpose-driven, principles-led approach to
delivering leading performance. Our success comes from the 86,000+
employees who leverage their imaginations and insights to bring our
vision, values and strategy to life so we can help our clients
thrive and communities prosper. As Canada's biggest bank, and one
of the largest in the world based on market capitalization, we have
a diversified business model with a focus on innovation and
providing exceptional experiences to our 17 million clients in
Canada, the U.S. and 27 other
countries. Learn more at rbc.com.
We are proud to support a broad range of community initiatives
through donations, community investments and employee volunteer
activities. See how at rbc.com/community-social-impact.
SOURCE RBC