Governance

Grand Challenges Canada is a not-for-profit organization created, in part, with funding from the Government of Canada. We adhere to strict controls and oversight. We fund and provide support to not-for-profit and charitable organizations, academic institutions and socially-minded small- and medium-sized businesses in Canada and low- and middle-income countries.

  • Guylaine Saucier

    Guylaine Saucier

    Board Chair, Grand Challenges Canada

  • Alain Beaudet

    Alain Beaudet

    Past President, Canadian Institutes of Health Research

  • Cédric Bisson

    Cédric Bisson

    Partner, Teralys Capital

  • Marine Buissonnière

    Marine Buissonnière

    Independent Researcher and Advisor in Humanitarian Action and Global Health; Senior Advisor, Resolve to Save Lives

  • Daniel Carucci

    Daniel Carucci

    Global Chief Medical Officer, McCann Health

  • Johanne Charbonneau

    Johanne Charbonneau

    Retired Financial Executive/Corporate Director

    Chair of Audit, Finance & Risk Committee

  • Awa Marie Coll Seck

    Awa Marie Coll Seck

    Minister of State to the President of Senegal

  • Mohamed H.A. Hassan

    Mohamed H.A. Hassan

    President, The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS)

  • Gerhard Pries

    Gerhard Pries

    Founder and Executive Chair, Sarona Asset Management Inc., Chair of the Investment Committee

  • Morris Rosenberg

    Morris Rosenberg

    Chair of Governance & Human Resources Committee

  • Mercy Mwangangi

    Former Chief Administrative Secretary at the Ministry of Health, Kenya, Masters in Health Economics and Policy at University of Adelaide, Medical Degree from University of Nairobi

  • Karlee Silver

    (Non-voting)

    Chief Executive Officer

  • Peter A. Singer

    Peter A. Singer

    (Non-voting)

    World Health Organization

Former Board Members

Grand Challenges Canada would like to acknowledge the guidance and leadership provided by the former members of our Board of Directors.

  • Joseph L. Rotman

    Founding Chairman

  • Robert Bell

  • Abdallah Daar

  • Elizabeth Dowdeswell

  • Charles Field-Marsham

  • Allan Gotlieb

  • Jean Lebel

  • Mwelecele Malecela

  • David M. Malone

  • Allan R. Ronald