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Speaker
Kathy Bush, partner, Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Kathy Bush has more than 30 years of experience in the area of pension, benefits and executive compensation. She regularly assists businesses structure their pension, benefits and executive compensation arrangements and their related investments. She also has substantial litigation experience defending corporations from challenges at all levels of Canadian courts, including the Supreme Court of Canada.
Bush was a member and vice-chair of both the Ontario pension regulator and the tribunal and was the management expert on Ontario’s Expert Commission on Pensions. She’s the former chair of the Association for Canadian Pension Management’s national policy committee. Currently, she’s a member of the C.D. Howe Institute’s pension policy committee and a leader of Blakes’ pension, benefits and executive compensation group. Bush is also the vice-chair of the Stakeholder Advisory Committee on Pensions at the Financial Services Regulatory Authority of Ontario.
She has provided advice to many provincial governments, the federal government and many of Canada’s largest jointly sponsored pension plans relating to the structuring of pension and benefit arrangements and their board structure and governance. Bush has also developed one of the premier Canadian practices on trustee board governance.