Biographical Notes – Raymond Ivany

Mr. Raymond Ivany was appointed to the Bank of Canada’s Board of Directors in September 2018.

Mr. Ivany is President Emeritus of Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. His career in higher education spanned more than three decades, beginning as a faculty member at the University College of Cape Breton (now known as Cape Breton University), where he also served as Dean and Executive Vice President.

Mr. Ivany was appointed as President and CEO of Nova Scotia Community College in 1998, leading the institution through a period of rapid growth and transformation. He served as President and Vice-Chancellor of Acadia University between 2009 and 2017. Upon his retirement, Acadia University awarded Mr. Ivany the prestigious Arthur L. Irving Medal of Commitment for his leadership and contributions.

Mr. Ivany has served as chair of the Workers’ Compensation Board of Nova Scotia and was a member of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the Ontario government’s Investing in Students Task Force, Nova Scotia Business Inc. (now known as Invest Nova Scotia), the Perennia Food and Agriculture Corporation, the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy and the Canadian Council on Learning. Between 2012 and 2014, he chaired an economic commission that resulted in a landmark report called Now or Never: An Urgent Call to Action for Nova Scotians.

Currently, Mr. Ivany is a private consultant in the areas of strategy, governance, and leadership. He is also a director of Nova Scotia Power Incorporated.

In 2017, Mr. Ivany was appointed to the Order of Nova Scotia and invested in the Order of Canada in 2020.

Mr. Ivany earned his Bachelor of Arts and a Diploma in Engineering Technology from Cape Breton University, and a Master of Science in Environmental Health degree from East Tennessee State University. Mr. Ivany then became a Research Fellow at Harvard University’s Department of Environmental Science and Physiology within the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.