Mr. Leo de Bever, Public Member

Leo worked for 40 years with eight large institutions, including the Bank of Canada and the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, and served as the inaugural CEO of Alberta Investment Management Corporation from 2008 to 2014.

Since 2015, he has assisted small firms in deploying profitable new technologies in finance (Mountain Pacific Group in Seattle), sustainable fertilizers (Sulvaris, Calgary), pension management (Blue Pier, Toronto), and energy efficiency (solar, agrivoltaics, and formic acid), as well as lower-cost, high-quality modular housing.  

Leo grew up in the Netherlands and came to Canada in 1975.  He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.