Calin Rovinescu<br>C.M.

Calin Rovinescu
C.M.

Ontario, Canada

Calin Rovinescu is a corporate director, venture capital investor and senior advisor to several corporations. He served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Air Canada from April 2009 until his retirement on February 15, 2021, and also held various senior leadership roles from 2000 to 2004.

From 2004 to 2009, Mr. Rovinescu was a co‑founder and Principal of Genuity Capital Markets, an independent investment bank. Prior to 2000, he was the Managing Partner of the law firm Stikeman Elliott in Montréal.

Mr. Rovinescu was Chair of the Star Alliance Chief Executive Board from 2012 to 2016 and Chair of the International Air Transport Association from 2014 to 2015.

He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Bank of Nova Scotia and a senior advisor to Brookfield Asset Management Inc. and Teneo. Mr. Rovinescu holds Bachelor of Laws degrees from Université de Montréal and the University of Ottawa and has been awarded six honourary doctorates from universities in Canada, Europe and the United States. Mr. Rovinescu served as Chancellor of the University of Ottawa from 2015 to 2022. In 2016, Mr. Rovinescu was recognized as Canada’s Outstanding CEO of the Year by the Financial Post Magazine. In 2019, he was recognized as Strategist of the Year and as Canada’s Outstanding CEO of the Year for the second time by The Globe and Mail’s Report on Business magazine. Mr. Rovinescu is a member of the Order of Canada and was inducted into the Canadian Business Hall of Fame in 2021.

Mr. Rovinescu is a director of BCE and Bell Canada since April 2016.

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