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Evan Siddall
Evan Siddall
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President & CEO of Canada Mortgage & Housing Corporation
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; January 1, 2014
Preceded by	Karen Kinsley
Special Advisor to the Governor of the Bank of Canada
	In office; 2010–2014
Appointed by	Stephen Harper
Preceded by	Tim Hodgson
Succeeded by	Lynn Patterson
Personal details
Born	1965; Toronto, Ontario
Spouse	Garnet Pratt (separated) Tracy Rubio (divorced)
Children	2
Alma mater	Osgoode Hall Law School University of Guelph

Evan Siddall (born 1965) is the current President & Chief Executive Officer of the Canada Mortgage & Housing Corporation. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Davis Phinney Foundation.

Background

Siddall holds a B.A. in Management Economics from the University of Guelph, and an LL.B. from Osgoode Hall Law School, York University. He also participates in an annual executive education program at Harvard Business School.

Career

Siddall spent five years at Burns Fry Limited (later BMO Nesbitt Burns) (1989-1994) before leaving as Managing Director to become a Vice President of Goldman Sachs & Co in 1997. Promoted to Managing Director in 2001, he left Goldman in 2002 to join Lazard Frères & Co as Resident Managing Director and Head of Canada. Siddall joined Fort Reliance Limited, the parent company of Irving Oil Limited, as Corporate Finance Officer in 2009.

Siddall entered public service in 2010, joining the Bank of Canada as Special Advisor to the Governor and the Bank’s Senior Representative in Toronto, Canada’s financial centre. He was appointed CEO of CMHC for a five year term effective January 1, 2014.

Siddall is a former chair of the Board of Governors of the University of Guelph, and the Counsel of Chairs of Ontario Universities. He is a past president of the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery and the Osler Bluff Ski Club. Siddall is also a co-founder of craft brewery Side Launch Brewing Co.^[1]

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation

Siddall has led a series of organizational changes, referred to as “CMHC in Motion,” to strengthen the organization’s risk-management function, streamline bureaucracy and improve talent-management practices.^[2]

Under Siddall’s leadership, CMHC led the design of Canada’s first-ever National Housing Strategy^[3], a 10-year Government of Canada plan to address the housing needs of Canadians.

Personal Life

Siddall was born in Toronto, Ontario and attended Bishop Macdonell Catholic High School in Guelph, Ontario. He is separated from his second wife, Garnet Pratt, and he has two adult children by a prior marriage to Tracy Rubio Siddall.

Siddall, who was diagnosed with early-onset Parkinson’s disease in 2014, founded an annual fundraiser for Parkinson’s, the Growling Beaver Brevet^[4]. He joined the Board of the Davis Phinney Foundation in 2016.