Leah Fichter is the vice-chair of the Canadian Association of Pension Supervisory Authorities, the executive director of the pensions division with the Financial and Consumer Affairs Authority of Saskatchewan and is the province’s deputy superintendent of pensions. She’s responsible for overseeing the regulation of occupational pension plans and the development of the policy framework for the funding, administration, supervision and regulation of pension plans in the province.Fichter has been instrumental in the development of a legislative framework to support the restructuring of distressed pension plans. She also spearheaded the development of the legislative structure for regulating pooled registered pension plans and target-benefit plans in Saskatchewan.

From 2019 to April 2023, she was chair of the CAPSA and a member of the International Organisation of Pension Supervisors. She was also the chair of the CAPSA’s defined contribution pension plans committee and recently led the development of a harmonized multi-jurisdictional framework for the regulation of variable payment life annuities.

Fichter has spoken about pensions nationally and internationally.

Over the course of her career, she has worked in several regulatory roles in the public service. She has also been a pension plan administrator, an investment advisor and has worked at an insurance company managing pension assets.

Fichter holds a bachelor of commerce degree from the University of Saskatchewan, a pension plan administration certificate from Humber College and has completed the Canadian securities course and Canadian options course.