11 Facts About John MacBain

John H McCall MacBain was born on c and is a Canadian billionaire businessman and philanthropist who is the founder of the McCall MacBain Foundation and Pamoja Capital SA, its investment arm.

McCall John MacBain received an MBA from Harvard Business School, an MA in Law from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and an Honours BA in Economics from McGill University.

John MacBain holds honorary degrees from Dalhousie University, the University of Ottawa, Brock University, McGill University and Monash University.

John MacBain served as president of the Students' Society of McGill University, as well as valedictorian.

John MacBain worked from 1984 to 1987 as director of marketing at Power Corporation.

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From 1987 to 2006, McCall John MacBain was the founder, president and CEO of Trader Classified Media, the world's leading classified advertising company.

In 2006, McCall John MacBain sold the company and set up the McCall John MacBain Foundation.

John MacBain is chancellor of McGill University for a three-year term from 2021 to 2024.

Since its formation in Geneva, Switzerland, in 2007, the McCall John MacBain Foundation has made tens of millions of dollars of grants to fund projects relating to education and scholarships, health and climate change, and the environment.

John MacBain made that gift in September 2013, during the Rhodes 110th anniversary celebrations.

Additionally, McCall John MacBain was honoured in 2014 as a Fellow of the Chancellor's Court of Benefactors at Oxford University and at Rhodes House, where his portrait hangs and a room bears his name.