1. Mark Wiseman was formerly the chair of the Alberta Investment Management Corporation; a manager at BlackRock; and prior to 2016, the president and CEO of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board.
14 Facts About Mark Wiseman
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Mark Wiseman earned a bachelor's degree from Queen's University as well as a law degree and an MBA from the University of Toronto.
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Mark Wiseman obtained a Master of Laws degree from Yale University, where he was a Fulbright Scholar.
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Mark Wiseman was a law clerk to Madam Justice Beverley McLachlin at the Supreme Court of Canada.
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Mark Wiseman then joined the Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board as a Senior VP in 2005.
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Mark Wiseman became the President and CEO of CPPIB in 2012.
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In 2014, Mark Wiseman co-founded the Century Initiative with Dominic Barton.
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From 2016 to 2019, Mark Wiseman was a Senior Managing Director at BlackRock, Global Head of Active Equities, Chairman of its alternatives business, and Chairman of BlackRock's Global Investment Committee.
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On December 5,2019, Mark Wiseman was fired from his position at BlackRock following a failure to report a consensual relationship with a subordinate employee under his reporting line.
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Mark Wiseman advised various businesses, most recently joining Lazard as a part-time Senior Advisor.
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Mark Wiseman is a Senior Advisor to Boston Consulting Group and Hillhouse Capital.
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In June 2020, Mark Wiseman was named the new chair of the Alberta Investment Management Corporation.
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In March 2025, Prime Minister Mark Carney added Wiseman to his council of advisors on Canada-US relations, established in January by Justin Trudeau.
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For more than twenty years, Mark Wiseman was in a common-law relationship with Marcia Moffat, whom he met on his first day at University of Toronto.