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Allan R. Taylor, CIAR Director since 1995
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Allan Taylor
joined Royal Bank of Canada in 1949 and was promoted through the
ranks until he became President and Chief Operating Officer in 1983.
Three years later, he was elected Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer, a position he held until November 1994 when he relinquished
the title of Chief Executive Officer. He relinquished the title of
Chairman and retired from the Bank in 1995. Mr. Taylor is a former Director of Royal Bank
of Canada; Canadian Pacific Limited; Canadian Pacific Railways
Limited; Fairmont Hotels & Resorts Inc.; General Motors of
Canada Limited; TransCanada PipeLines Limited; United Dominion
Industries Inc.; and The Conference Board of Canada. He is former
Chairman of The Canadian Bankers' Association; Junior Achievement of
Canada; and the Corporate Programme for “Imagine”. He is former
President of the International Monetary Conference and former
Vice-Chairman and Founding Director of the Corporate Higher
Education Forum. In addition, Mr. Taylor is former Vice Chairman of the
Business Council on National Issues (now the Canadian Council of
Chief Executives). He has served on the Queen’s University Board of
Governors and as Chairman of the Queen’s Capital Campaign as well as
a member of the Board of Advisors for the Richard Ivey School of
Business and Northeastern University Business School. Mr. Taylor is currently Interim Chairman of
NeuroScience Canada Partnership and NeuroScience Canada Foundation,
and is Chairman of the Board of Advisors of Outward Bound of Canada.
He received the Conference Board of Canada’s 1995 Honorary Associate
Award; the Canadian Council of Christians and Jews’ 1995 Human
Relations Award; the Canadian Executive Service Overseas’ 1995 Award
for International Development; the Canadian Council for
International Business’ 1992 International Executive of the Year
Award and the 1994 Public Policy Forum’s Public Policy Award. Mr.
Taylor was appointed an Officer of
the Order of Canada in 1994. He was inducted into the Canadian
Business Hall of Fame in 2006. |
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