Jim Leech  

Advisory Board Chair

Jim is Chair of PCM’s Advisory Board and plays a key role in advising PCM’s leadership team on firm strategy, operations and talent development.

In 2014, Jim retired as President and CEO of Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, one of the world’s largest pension plans, currently with over $200B assets under management. Jim previously led the private capital group within OTPP, where he was responsible for originally hiring both Steve Faraone and Mike Murray.

Jim currently Chairs the MasterCard Foundation Board and is Special Advisor to the Prime Minister of Canada on the Canada Infrastructure Bank. He is also Chair of the Toronto Western Hospital Foundation and is the Honorary Colonel of 32 Signal Regiment, Canadian Forces.  Jim was a founding director of Right To Play International and he recently stepped down as Chancellor of Queen’s University – a position he held from 2014 to 2021.

Previously, Jim was president and CEO of Unicorp Canada Corporation, and Union Energy Inc., then one of North America’s largest integrated energy companies.

In 2013, Jim co-authored “The Third Rail, Confronting our Pension Failures”, a best-selling book that received the 2013-2014 National Business Book Award.  Jim was awarded the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2010 and in 2014 was invested as a Member of the Order of Canada.

Jim holds a Bachelor of Science (Honours in Math and Physics) from the Royal Military College of Canada and a Master of Business Administration from Queen’s University. He is also a graduate of the Directors Education Program at the Institute of Corporate Directors at The Rotman School of Management.