Speaker Profile
Nancy Hughes Anthony
President & CEO Canadian Bankers Association
Nancy Hughes Anthony is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian Bankers Association. In this capacity, she is the principal advocate for the banking industry in Canada and contributes to the development of public policy on financial services. She is also Chair of the board of directors of the International Banking Federation (IBFed), a forum that addresses issues affecting banking around the world.
Prior to joining the CBA in 2007, Ms. Hughes Anthony was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, Canada’s largest national business association with 170,000 members. During her career, she also gained senior experience in the federal and provincial governments as well as the private sector, having served as a federal deputy minister, a senior advisor to the government of Prince Edward Island and as a corporate vice-president.
Ms. Hughes Anthony has served on the boards of a number of public and private organizations and is one of the first graduates of the Directors Education Program from the Corporate Governance College, created by the Institute of Corporate Directors in partnership with the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. Ms. Hughes Anthony is also a member of the Distinguished Advisory Council of The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University. She has received the Women’s Executive Network Top 100 Most Powerful Women Award, has been selected several times by the National Post as one of the Top 50 Most Influential Business Women in Canada and ranked as one of the 100 most influential people in Ottawa by The Hill Times newspaper.
The Montreal-born Ms. Hughes Anthony graduated from McGill University with a bachelor of arts degree in English and German. She has lived and worked in Germany and Mexico and is fluent in English, French and Spanish.
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